Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2025)

Theatre, Dance and Performance Training is a very special thing. It is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for practitioners, academics, creative artists and pedagogues to articulate research into performance training in all its diversity. It also lends its name to the accompanying Blog which provides a digital companion to the discussions initiated in the journal. More significantly, however, it is a community, a gathering together of people dedicated to the past, present, and future of performer training in all its forms. At its heart, it is about the people who carry these traditions and innovations forward and then set them down for others to pick up and take forward in their own ways. This issue marks the first that Sarah Weston and I have edited, and we are incredibly aware of the precious thing that we have just picked up. However, as evidenced by the editorial board, the associate editors, the Training Grounds team, the Blog team, the team at Routledge, and the diverse and expert contributors listed, all of whom we are tremendously grateful to, we are not alone in our procession.