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Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture (2024)
Journal Article
Daly, D. (2024). Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2366115

This article explores the agency of the actor in training with Performance/Motion capture (Pe/MoCap) technologies. It examines a series of characterization workshops exploring Michael Chekhov’s (2002) Imaginary Body techniques through live interactio... Read More about Finding agency in the imagined body through Unreal Engine’s Live Link performance capture.

Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Daly, D. (2024, May). Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting. Presented at Stanislavsky and Actor Training for the Screen, Online

Tempo-rhythm as a component of Stanislavsky’s system provides stage actors with a valuable technique in establishing character, mood, the dynamic of the scene and overall play and can provoke emotional and psychological responses both in actor and au... Read More about Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting.

Intimate Exposure: Connecting with the Camera in Screen Actor Training (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Daly, D. (2023, August). Intimate Exposure: Connecting with the Camera in Screen Actor Training. Paper presented at Theatre and Performance Research Association, Leeds University

When discussing their craft, many successful screen actors highlight the close,
personal and intense relationship they have with the camera when performing. Yet,
for many student actors the camera can prove discomforting, invoke tension and
anxiet... Read More about Intimate Exposure: Connecting with the Camera in Screen Actor Training.

Re-positioning the field : performer training in regional theatre and university partnerships (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Daly, D. (2018, September). Re-positioning the field : performer training in regional theatre and university partnerships. Presented at Theatre & Performance Research Association; Performer Training Working Group: Who Are We Training For?, Aberystwyth University

As HEIs seek to demonstrate clear employability links in their academic programmes, so partnerships with the theatre industry have increasingly become desirable as a key component of the teaching and learning strategy for many theatre and performance... Read More about Re-positioning the field : performer training in regional theatre and university partnerships.

Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor, ed. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary PracticeDublin: Carysfort Press, 2015. 288 p. £19.00. ISBN: 978-1-909325-78-4. (2016)
Journal Article
Daly, D. (2016). Siobhán O'Gorman and Charlotte McIvor, ed. Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary PracticeDublin: Carysfort Press, 2015. 288 p. £19.00. ISBN: 978-1-909325-78-4. New Theatre Quarterly, 32(3), 301-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X16000324

Book review

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Exhibition / Performance