Total Body Performance Method: A Practice-Based Approach to Achieving Totality of the Body for Theatre and Contemporary Performance
Rajagrafindo Persada, 2025
Total Body Performance Method: A Practice-Based Approach to Achieving Totality of the Body for Theatre and Contemporary Performance is a foundational text by Wendy HS that presents a comprehensive embodied practice methodology for contemporary performance. Rooted in artist-driven research and grounded in Indonesian performative traditions, this book articulates the Total Body Performance Method (TBPM) as a structured system integrating physical awareness, movement, voice, and performative presence. TBPM bridges traditional body practices—such as Minangkabau martial art Silek and Tapuak Galembong randai—with contemporary performance techniques, offering performers, practitioners, and researchers a practical and philosophical framework for cultivating total bodily engagement in creation and performance contexts.
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Total Body Performance Method
Indonesia Performance Syndicate Publishing & Dana Indonesiana PKKI 2023, 2024
Total Body Performance Method (First Edition 2024) is a seminal performance practice text authored by Wendy HS, published by Indonesia Performance Syndicate Publishing in collaboration with Dana Indonesiana PKKI 2023. This book presents the Total Body Performance Method (TBPM), an original embodied practice framework that integrates physical awareness, movement, voice, and presence for theatre and contemporary performance. Rooted in rigorous artistic research and informed by Indonesian performative traditions, TBPM offers practitioners and researchers a structured, practice-based approach to achieving total bodily engagement in both creation and performance.
“Publishing artistic research to advance contemporary performance.”