New Approaches To Theatre Studies And Performance Analysis

Author : Günter Berghaus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110910582

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New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis by Günter Berghaus Pdf

This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol in 1997, and substantially revised for this publication. They reflect on some of the key developments in the discipline of Theatre Studies over the past fifty years and combine this with a discussion of new trends and approaches, especially in the fields of Performance Studies, reception analysis, interculturalism, sociocultural analysis, theatre anthropology, dance and movement analysis, computer-assisted reconstruction of performance venues, street theatre, guerilla theatre, ritual theatre, etc.

Author : Eli Rozik
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782847267

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Generating Theatre Meaning by Eli Rozik Pdf

Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This book carries an underlying theme that theatre performance is a descriptive text generated by the theatre medium and that the process of generating meaning takes place in the actual encounter between a theatre performance and the spectator.

Author : Jacqueline Martin,Willmar Sauter
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017593679

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Understanding Theatre by Jacqueline Martin,Willmar Sauter Pdf

Author : Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135989477

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Performance and Cognition by Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart Pdf

This book invites theatre and performance scholars to incorporate many of the insights of cognitive science into their work and to begin considering all of their research projects from the perspective of cognitive studies. As well as including a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of cognitive studies for theatre and performance scholarship, the volume features essays in all of the major areas of theatre and performance. Several of the contributions use cognitive studies to challenge some of the key scholarly and practical orientations in theatre and performance studies. The experimentally based insights of cognitive science are shown to be at odds with Saussurean semiotics, psychoanalysis, and aspects of deconstruction, new historicism, and Foucauldian discourse theory. Performance and Cognition opens up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas –and sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.

Author : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521856221

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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies by Christopher B. Balme Pdf

This volume introduces the key elements and approaches in the study of theatre and performance, covering drama, music theatre and dance.

Author : Baz Kershaw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748646081

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Research Methods in Theatre and Performance by Baz Kershaw Pdf

How have theatre and performance research methods and methodologies engaged the expanding diversity of performing arts practices? How can students best combine performance/theatre research approaches in their projects? This book's 29 contributors provide hands-on answers to such questions. Challenging and debating received research wisdom and exploring innovative procedures for rigorous enquiry via archives, technology, practice-as-research, scenography, performer training, applied theatre/performance, body in performance and more, they create a focussed compendium of future research options.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Jo Riley
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1587290634

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The Show and the Gaze of Theatre by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Jo Riley Pdf

Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte's dynamic book. Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135083878

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The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies by Erika Fischer-Lichte Pdf

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse and interrelated concerns required of higher-level study: Part 1 – Central Concepts for Theatre and Performance Research – introduces the language and key ideas that are used to discuss and think about theatre: concepts of performance; the emergence of meaning; and the theatrical event as an experience shared by actors and spectators. Part 1 contextualizes these concepts by tracing the history of Theatre and Performance Studies as a discipline. Part 2 – Fields, Theories and Methods – looks at how to analyse a performance and how to conduct theatre-historiographical research. This section is concerned with the 'doing' of Theatre and Performance Studies: establishing and understanding different methodological approaches; using sources effectively; and building theoretical frameworks. Part 3 – Pushing Boundaries – expands on the lessons of Parts 1 and 2 in order to engage with theatre and performance in a global context. Part 3 introduces the concept of 'interweaving performance cultures'; explores the interrelation of theatre with the other arts; and develops a transformative aesthetics of performance. Case studies throughout the book root its theoretical discussion in theatrical practice. Focused accounts of plays, practitioners and performances map the development of Theatre and Performance Studies as an academic discipline, and of the theatre itself as an art form. This is the most comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the field available, written by one of its foremost scholars.

Author : Chandrika Patel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781483433400

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The Taste of British South Asian Theatres: Aesthetics and Production by Chandrika Patel Pdf

The Taste of British South Asian Theatres: Aesthetics and Production offers critical analysis of eight British Asian performances, using an east-west approach of references and theories, the latter including the Rasa theory of the Natyashastra, Brecht's Gestus and semiotics, making a striking contribution to the understanding of one of the most outstanding examples of diasporic artistic activity in recent history. With illustrations, the productions discussed are The Marriage of Figaro (Tara Arts), Curry Tales (Rasa Productions), Mr Quiver: intimate (Rajni Shah), Rafta, Rafta...(National Theatre), Nowhere to Belong: Tales of an Extravagant Stranger (RSC/Tara Arts), A Fine Balance (Tamasha), Deadeye (Kali Theatre) and the Gujarati play Lottery Lottery (Shivam Theatre). "In the search for new models of criticism, Patel's study of eight performances has advanced a subtle recipe that provides a new resource for diaspora studies." -Graham Ley Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theory, University of Exeter

Author : Henry Bial
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 0415302412

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The Performance Studies Reader by Henry Bial Pdf

The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. The collection is designed as a companion to Richard Schechner's popular Performance Studies: an Introduction (Routledge, 2002), but is also ideal as a stand-alone text. Henry Bial collects together key critical pieces from the field, referred to as 'suggested readings' in Performance Studies: an Introduction. He also broadens the discussion with additional selections. The structure and themes of the Reader closely follow those of Schechner's companion textbook. The articles in each section focus particularly on three primary areas in performance studies, theatre, anthropology and sociology/cultural studies.

Author : Eli Rozik
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782842835

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Future Theatre Research by Eli Rozik Pdf

Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterises the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play and drawings prior to mastering verbal thinking. The book is a recapitulation of major findings regarding the nature of the theatre, its medium, fictional creativity and origin, and includes new unpublished studies. It address the principles of imagistic, metaphoric, symbolic and fictional thinking, which characterise the theatre, as well as reception and acting. The work has been designed to fit the structure of a university course, and will appeal to people interested in broadening their knowledge and understanding of theatre art.

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429837371

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New Music Theatre in Europe by Robert Adlington Pdf

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The ‘new music theatre’ wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer’s relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic developments not regularly represented in existing music histories. Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of intense exchange – between practitioners of different art forms, across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions.

Author : Maria Shevtsova
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415334624

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Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre by Maria Shevtsova Pdf

Including a foreword by Simon Callow, this is the first ever full-length study of the internationally-acclaimed theatre company, and provides both a methodological model for actor training and a unique insight into the journeys taken from studio to stage.

Author : Atay Citron,Sharon Aronson-Lehavi,David Zerbib
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408184134

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Performance Studies in Motion by Atay Citron,Sharon Aronson-Lehavi,David Zerbib Pdf

Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance can offer a new way of seeing the world, and testifies to the dynamism of this discipline. Beginning with an overview of the development of performance studies, the essays offer new insights into: contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre; participatory performance and museum exhibitions; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality at war and in contemporary religious rituals, and performative practices in therapy, education and life sciences. Employing original reflexive approaches to concrete case studies and situations, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary culture, art and society, creating new interdisciplinary links between the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. With studies from and about places as diverse as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda and the USA, Performance Studies in Motion showcases the vitality and breadth of the field today.

Author : Tatiana Chemi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319627885

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A Theatre Laboratory Approach to Pedagogy and Creativity by Tatiana Chemi Pdf

This book considers the pedagogy of the theatre laboratory, focusing on seminal theatre group Odin Teatret. It provides a detailed discussion of the historical background to theatre laboratories, including their conception, before moving on to specific examples of how the work at Odin Teatret crosscuts creativity, pedagogy, and research practices. The book draws on a range of insightful sources, including historical readings and previous literature, interviews with members of the theatre group, autoethnographic pieces, and personal experiences. Its unique narrative brings fresh insights into how to establish inquiry-based learning laboratories, in order to re-think higher education. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academics working on performance, creativity studies and pedagogy.