{"id":1837,"date":"2018-12-11T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2019-11-15T17:44:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:44:53","slug":"paul-allain-features-in-podcast-about-jerzy-grotowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/11\/paul-allain-features-in-podcast-about-jerzy-grotowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Allain features in podcast about Jerzy Grotowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/allain.html\">Paul Allain<\/a>, Professor of Theatre and Performance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a> and Dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschool\/\">Graduate School<\/a>, has featured in the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/stories-from-the-eastern-west\">Search: Stories from the Eastern West<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\">Culture.pl<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Culture.pl is produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/iam.pl\/en\">Adam Mickiewicz Institute<\/a>, a national cultural institution promoting Poland and Polish culture worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/artist\/jerzy-grotowski\">Jerzy Grotowski<\/a> (1933-1999) was a Polish theatre director who developed a form of intensive training for actors to master the body, movement and voice.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast, Paul explains Grotowski&#8217;s life, work, and his important influence on the world of the performing arts. In particular, he describes the purpose of Grotowski&#8217;s training techniques to remove psychological and physical blocks: \u2018Sometimes he\u2019d use physical tests in the actor training &#8211; like jumps and leaps &#8211; that were incredibly sophisticated and demanding physically &#8211; to get people over their fear of the challenges he was throwing at them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the full podcast, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/podcast\/SFTEW-19-SEARCH\">https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/podcast\/SFTEW-19-SEARCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Arts and Dean of the Graduate School, has featured in the podcast Search: Stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/11\/paul-allain-features-in-podcast-about-jerzy-grotowski\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,223351,124,168430,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}