Complicite Theatre And Aesthetics

Author : Tomasz Wiśniewski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319334431

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Complicite, Theatre and Aesthetics by Tomasz Wiśniewski Pdf

This book presents a pioneering critical study of Complicite’s work throughout the years. Drawing on an extensive overview of the available research material – including interviews, manuscripts and the company’s own archive – the book is framed within a clearly defined research perspective and explores the singularity of theatre communication. The book results from an encounter between the London-based – but cosmopolitan in scope – company, and a fresh application of the form-oriented scholarship of Eastern Europe, Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere in particular. Focused on the aesthetics of Complicite, this study achieves a critical distance and undertakes multidimensional scrutiny of the available research material. By identifying the principles of Complicite’s aesthetics, the book attempts to grasp the company’s artistic paradigm. It focuses on ways of creating, preserving, and decoding meanings, rather than on the nuances of performance or contextual issues.

Author : Adam J. Ledger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137407672

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The Director and Directing by Adam J. Ledger Pdf

This book critically assesses the artistry of contemporary directors. Its discussion includes the work of Declan Donnellan, Thomas Ostermeier, Deborah Warner, Simon Stone and Krzysztof Warlikowski. Alongside the work of wider theorists (Patrice Pavis and Erika Fischer-Lichte), it uses neuroaesthetic theory (Semir Zeki) and cognitive and creative process models to offer an original means to discuss the performance event, emotion, brain structures and concepts, and the actor’s body in performance. It offers first-hand observation of rehearsals led by Katie Mitchell, Ivo van Hove, Carrie Cracknell and the Steppenwolf Theatre. It also explores devising in relation to the work of Simon McBurney and contemporary groups, and scenography in relation to the work of Dmitry Krymov, Robert Wilson and Robert Lepage. The Director and Directing argues that the director creates a type of knowledge, ‘reward’ and ‘resonant experience’ (G. Gabrielle Starr) through instinctive and expert choices.

Author : Robert Tubbs,Alice Jenkins,Nina Engelhardt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030554781

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The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics by Robert Tubbs,Alice Jenkins,Nina Engelhardt Pdf

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics. These connections range from mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to mathematics as literature. Some chapters focus on a single author, such as mathematics and Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, or Charles Dickens, while others consider a mathematical topic common to two or more authors, such as squaring the circle, chaos theory, Newton’s calculus, or stochastic processes. With appeal for scholars and students in literature, mathematics, cultural history, and history of mathematics, this important volume aims to introduce the range, fertility, and complexity of the connections between mathematics, literature, and literary theory. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via [link.springer.com|http://link.springer.com/].

Author : Kalina Stefanova,Marvin Carlson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030529352

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20 Ground-Breaking Directors of Eastern Europe by Kalina Stefanova,Marvin Carlson Pdf

Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages. During the last three decades some of the most outstanding among them have risen to international stardom thanks to their ground-breaking productions that speak to audiences far beyond local borders. Not by chance, a considerable number of these directors have won the second-biggest theatre award on the continent – the European Prize for (New) Theatrical Realities. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the top directors of the region have been pushing contemporary theatre as a whole ahead into new territories. This book offers informative and in-depth portraits of twenty of these directors, written by leading critics, scholars, and researchers, who shed light on the directors’ signature styles with examples of their emblematic productions and outline the reasons for their impact. In addition, in two chapters the selected directors themselves discuss their artistic family trees as well as the main stakes theatre faces today. The book will be of interest to theatre scholars, students, and anybody engaged with theatre on a global scale.

Author : Nick Dunn,Tim Edensor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429535307

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Rethinking Darkness by Nick Dunn,Tim Edensor Pdf

This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and rhythms, enabling them to make sense of the world. This book ‘throws light’ on the neglect of these social patterns to emphasize how the diverse values, meanings and influences of darkness have been rarely considered. It also examines the history of our relationship with the dark and highlights how normative attitudes towards it have emerged, while also emphasising its cultural complexity by considering a contemporary range of alternative experiences and practices. Challenging notions of darkness as negative, as the antithesis of illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of darkness to stimulate our senses and deepen our understandings of different spaces, cultural experiences and creative engagements. Offering a rich exploration of an emergent field of study across the social sciences and humanities, this book will be useful for academics and students of cultural and media studies, design, geography, history, sociology and theatre who seek to investigate the creative, cultural and social dimensions of darkness.

Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118843208

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A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm Pdf

A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : Thierry Dubost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781476635682

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Eugene O'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics by Thierry Dubost Pdf

 The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.

Author : Michael Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441185891

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MasterClass in Drama Education by Michael Anderson Pdf

A comprehensive guide to drama education, ensuring a solid foundation for supporting effective learning and teaching.

Author : J. Machon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230236950

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(Syn)aesthetics by J. Machon Pdf

A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice.

Author : Daphna Ben Chaim
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106005663353

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Distance in the Theatre by Daphna Ben Chaim Pdf

Author : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135122898

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The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy by Magda Romanska Pdf

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years, and it now permeates all kinds of narrative forms and structures: from opera to performance art; from dance and multimedia to filmmaking and robotics. In our global, mediated context of multinational group collaborations that dissolve traditional divisions of roles as well as unbend previously intransigent rules of time and space, the dramaturg is also the ultimate globalist: intercultural mediator, information and research manager, media content analyst, interdisciplinary negotiator, social media strategist. This collection focuses on contemporary dramaturgical practice, bringing together contributions not only from academics but also from prominent working dramaturgs. The inclusion of both means a strong level of engagement with current issues in dramaturgy, from the impact of social media to the ongoing centrality of interdisciplinary and intermedial processes. The contributions survey the field through eight main lenses: world dramaturgy and global perspective dramaturgy as function, verb and skill dramaturgical leadership and season planning production dramaturgy in translation adaptation and new play development interdisciplinary dramaturgy play analysis in postdramatic and new media dramaturgy social media and audience outreach. Magda Romanska is Visiting Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Emerson College, and Dramaturg for Boston Lyric Opera. Her books include The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor (2012), Boguslaw Schaeffer: An Anthology (2012), and Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2014).

Author : Franc Chamberlain,Ralph Yarrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136465017

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Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre by Franc Chamberlain,Ralph Yarrow Pdf

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. For four decades, at his school in Paris, Jacques Lecoq trained performers from all over the world and effected a quiet evolution in the theatre. The work of such highly successful Lecoq graduates as Theatre de Complicite (The Winter's Tale with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Visit, The Street of Crocodiles and The Causcasian Chalk Circle with the Royal National Theatre) has brought Lecoq's work to the attention of mainstream critics and audiences in Britain. Yet Complicte is just the tip of the Iceberg. The contributors to this volume, most of them engaged in applying Lecoq's work, chart some of the diverse ways in which it has had an impact on our conceptions of mime, physical theatre, actor training, devising street theatre and interculturalism. This lively - even provocative - collection of essays focuses academic debate and raises awareness of the impact of Lecoq's work in Britain today.

Author : Simon McBurney,Complicite (Theatre company)
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015077685280

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A Disappearing Number by Simon McBurney,Complicite (Theatre company) Pdf

Winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best New Play "With touching emotion and unnerving disquietude, A Disappearing Number forces the spectator to consider the fact of love, death and belonging, within the space of his or her own personal universe."--New Statesman

Author : N. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137033642

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Applying Performance by N. Shaughnessy Pdf

This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.

Author : Frances Babbage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472534163

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Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre by Frances Babbage Pdf

Why are so many theatre productions adaptations of one kind or another? Why do contemporary practitioners turn so frequently to non-dramatic texts for inspiration? This study explores the fascination of novels, short stories, children's books and autobiographies for theatre makers and examines what 'becomes' of literary texts when these are filtered into contemporary practice that includes physical theatre, multimedia performance, puppetry, immersive and site-specific performance and live art. In Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre, Frances Babbage offers a series of fresh critical perspectives on the theory of adaptation in theatre-making, focusing on meditations of prose literature within contemporary performance. Individual chapters explore the significance and impact of books as physical objects within productions; the relationship between the dramatic adaptation and literary edition; storytelling on the page and in performance; literary space and theatrical space; and prose fiction reframed as 'found text' in contemporary theatre and live art. Case studies are drawn from internationally acclaimed companies including Complicite, Elevator Repair Service, Kneehigh, Forced Entertainment, Gob Squad, Teatro Kismet and Stan's Cafe. Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre is a compelling and provocative resource for anyone interested in the potential and the challenges of using prose literature as material for new theatrical performance.