Modern Theories Of Performance

Author : Jane Milling,Graham Ley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350318342

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Modern Theories of Performance by Jane Milling,Graham Ley Pdf

The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of key modern practitioners from Stanlislavski to Boal. Designed to be read alongside primary source material, each chapter offers not only a summary and exposition of these theories, but a critical commentary on their composition as discourses. Close scrutiny of the cultural context and figurative language of these important, and sometimes difficult, texts yields fresh insight into the ideas of these practitioners.

Author : Jane Milling,Graham Ley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230629158

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Modern Theories of Performance by Jane Milling,Graham Ley Pdf

The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of key modern practitioners from Stanlislavski to Boal. Designed to be read alongside primary source material, each chapter offers not only a summary and exposition of these theories, but a critical commentary on their composition as discourses. Close scrutiny of the cultural context and figurative language of these important, and sometimes difficult, texts yields fresh insight into the ideas of these practitioners.

Author : Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412926386

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Theories of Performance by Elizabeth Bell Pdf

Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:6087512

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The Theater Event by Anonim Pdf

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415116252

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Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Laurent Lellouch,Rainer Sommer,Benjamin Svetitsky,Anastassios Vladikas,Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191621260

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Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing by Laurent Lellouch,Rainer Sommer,Benjamin Svetitsky,Anastassios Vladikas,Leticia F. Cugliandolo Pdf

The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations. The emphasis of the book is on the theoretical developments that have shaped the field in the last two decades and that have turned lattice gauge theory into a robust approach to the determination of low energy hadronic quantities and of fundamental parameters of the Standard Model. By way of introduction, the lectures begin by covering lattice theory basics, lattice renormalization and improvement, and the many faces of chirality. A later course introduces QCD at finite temperature and density. A broad view of lattice computation from the basics to recent developments was offered in a corresponding course. Extrapolations to physical quark masses and a framework for the parameterization of the low-energy physics by means of effective coupling constants is covered in a lecture on chiral perturbation theory. Heavy-quark effective theories, an essential tool for performing the relevant lattice calculations, is covered from its basics to recent advances. A number of shorter courses round out the book and broaden its purview. These included recent applications to the nucleon—nucleon interation and a course on physics beyond the Standard Model.

Author : Graham Ley
Publisher : Royal College of General Practitioners
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780859899833

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Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance by Graham Ley Pdf

This collection of published and unpublished essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current prohibiting conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of ‘the contemporary’. The theatre is attractive for its history and also for its lively present. These essays explore aspects of historical performance in ancient Greece, and link thoughts on its significance to wider reflections on cultural theory from around the world and performance in the contemporary postmodern era, concluding with ideas on the new theatre of the diaspora. Each section of the book includes a short introduction; the essays and shorter interventions take various forms, but all are concerned with theatre, with practical aspects of theatre and theoretical dimensions of its study. The subjects range from ancient Greece to the present day, and include speculations on the origin of ancient tragic acting, the kinds of festival performance in ancient Athens, how performance is reflected in the tragic scripts, the significance of the presence of the chorus, technology and the ancient theatre, comparative thinking on Greek, Indian and Japanese theory, a critique of the rhetoric of performance theory and of postmodernism, reflections on modernism and theatre, and on the importance of adaptation to theatre, studies of the theatre and diaspora in Britain.

Author : Colin Talbot
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191614620

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Theories of Performance by Colin Talbot Pdf

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us - like taxes - into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? This question has become increasingly prominent in public debates over the past couple of decades, especially in the developed world but also in developing countries. As the state has grown during the second half of the 20th century, so pressures to justify its role in producing public services have also increased. Governments across the world have implemented all sorts of policies aimed at improving performance. But how much do we know about what actually improves performance of public organisations and services? On what theories, explicit or more often implicit, are these policies based? The answer is: too much and too little. There are dozens of theories, models, assumptions, and prescriptions about 'what works' in improving performance. But there's been very little attempt to 'join up' theories about performance and make some sense of the evidence we have within a coherent theoretical framework. This ground-breaking book sets out to begin to fill this gap by creatively synthesising the various fragments and insights about performance into a framework for systematically exploring and understanding how public sector performance is shaped. It focuses on three key aspects: the external 'performance regime' that drives performance of public agencies; the multiple dimensions that drive performance from within; and the competing public values that frame both of these and shape what public expects from public services.

Author : Marina Gržinić,Aneta Stojnić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319783437

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Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance by Marina Gržinić,Aneta Stojnić Pdf

This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

Author : A. Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137001788

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Authoring Performance by A. Sidiropoulou Pdf

A historical, theoretical, and comparative study of the emergence of the director-as-author phenomenon, posing questions of authorship and redefining the relationship between 'playwright' and the director-playwright.

Author : Phillip Marksberry
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466556751

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The Modern Theory of the Toyota Production System by Phillip Marksberry Pdf

Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or stories. Designed to aid in the implementation of Lean manufacturing, The Modern Theory of the Toyota Production System: A Systems Inquiry of the World’s Most Emulated and Profitable Management System explains that your organization already has what it takes to succeed with TPS and what’s probably missing is balance. Bridging the gap between implementation and theory, this text is the first of its kind to use systems theory to study how the pieces of the Toyota Production System (TPS) work together to achieve this much needed balance. Lean practitioners will learn how to use system theory to improve overall decision making when applying Lean or Toyota-like management systems. Explaining that the glue that holds the pieces of TPS together is just as important as the pieces themselves, the book provides you with invaluable guidance in the implementation of Lean manufacturing from a management perspective. It outlines a blueprint to help you develop a clear understanding of how the pieces of TPS need to come together so you can achieve something greater than what’s possible with the individual pieces.

Author : Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136359217

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Don Rubin,Carlos Solorzano Pdf

This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This Encyclopedia is indispensable for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre. It is also an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines including history, performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Gabrielle Cody,Meiling Cheng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136246562

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Reading Contemporary Performance by Gabrielle Cody,Meiling Cheng Pdf

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any discussion of this evolving theatricality. Specially commissioned entries from a wealth of contributors map out the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of its forms – from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The book is divided into two sections: Concepts - Key terms and ideas arranged according to the five characteristic elements of performance art: time; space; action; performer; audience. Methodologies and Turning Points - The seminal theories and ways of reading performance, such as postmodernism, epic theatre, feminisms, happenings and animal studies. Case Studies – entries in both sections are accompanied by short studies of specific performances and events, demonstrating creative examples of the ideas and issues in question. Three different introductory essays provide multiple entry points into the discussion of contemporary performance, and cross-references for each entry also allow the plotting of one’s own pathway. Reading Contemporary Performance is an invaluable guide, providing not just a solid set of familiarities, but an exploration and contextualisation of this broad and vital field.

Author : Simon Shepherd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316546130

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The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory by Simon Shepherd Pdf

What does 'performance theory' really mean and why has it become so important across such a large number of disciplines, from art history to religious studies and architecture to geography? In this introduction Simon Shepherd explains the origins of performance theory, defines the terms and practices within the field and provides new insights into performance's wide range of definitions and uses. Offering an overview of the key figures, their theories and their impact, Shepherd provides a fresh approach to figures including Erving Goffman and Richard Schechner and ideas such as radical art practice, performance studies, radical scenarism and performativity. Essential reading for students, scholars and enthusiasts, this engaging account travels from universities into the streets and back again to examine performance in the context of political activists and teachers, countercultural experiments and feminist challenges, and ceremonies and demonstrations.

Author : Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0472068865

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Critical Theory and Performance by Janelle G. Reinelt,Joseph R. Roach Pdf

Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance