The Grotowski Source Book

Author : RICHARD SCHECHNER,Lisa Wolford Wylam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136167287

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The Grotowski Sourcebook by RICHARD SCHECHNER,Lisa Wolford Wylam Pdf

This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric Bentley, Harold Clurman, and Charles Marowitz *writings which trace every phase of Grotowski's career from his 'theatre of production' to 'objective drama' and 'art as vehicle' *a wide-ranging collection of Grotowski's own writings, plus an interview with his closest collaborator and 'heir', Thomas Richards *an array of photographs documenting Grotowski and his followers in action *a historical-critical study of Grotowski by Richard Schechner.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : OCLC:610358344

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The Grotowski Source Book by Richard Schechner Pdf

Author : James Slowiak,Jairo Cuesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351174763

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Jerzy Grotowski by James Slowiak,Jairo Cuesta Pdf

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski’s work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: ● an overview of Grotowski’s life and the distinct phases of his work ● an analysis of his key ideas ● a consideration of his role as director of the renowned Polish Laboratory Theatre ● a series of practical exercises offering an introduction to the principles underlying Grotowski’s working methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

Author : Jennifer Kumiega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : 1472572165

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The Theatre of Grotowski by Jennifer Kumiega Pdf

First published in 1985, this is a reissue of the seminal text on the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Laboratory Theatre recognised as being one of the most influential and important studies of the Polish theatre practitioner. In 1984 Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre closed down after twenty-five years of ceaseless experimentation pushing at the boundaries of the nature of theatre. From tiny beginnings in provincial Poland, Grotowski's influence spread to Eurpoe and the United States, fuelled first by the international tours of his remarkable company and then by 'paratheatrical' participatory projects which attracted adherents all over the world. This study of his work remains one of the most important and thorough examinations of the history, theory, and post-theatre work of this most influential of theatre practitioners.

Author : Jerzy Grotowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136745867

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Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski Pdf

"In 1968, Jerzy Grotowski published his groundbreaking Towards a Poor Theatre, a record of the theatrical investigations conducted at his experimental theater in Poland. This classic work on acting and performance is now available once again. In his preface to the original edition, Peter Brook wrote: "Grotowski is unique. Why? Because no one else in the world, to my knowledge no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental-physical-emotional processes as deeply as Grotowski." More recently, Richard Schechner has called Grotowski "one of the four great directors of Western theater." Jerzy Grotowski was born in Poland in 1933. In 1982 he moved to the United States and worked at the University of California. He later moved to Italy, where he continued his unique and intense theatrical investigation. He died in 1999"--Publisher description.

Author : Paul Allain
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1906497230

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Grotowski's Empty Room by Paul Allain Pdf

Contributed articles on the works of Grotowski Jerzy, 1933-1999, Polish theatre director.

Author : Richard Drain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134864744

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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain Pdf

Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth century, from the onset of modernism to the present, providing direct access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating theatre the century has had to offer, as well as guidelines to its present most adventurous developments. Setting theory beside practice, these writings bring alive a number of vital and continuing concerns, each of which is given full scope in five sections which explore the Modernist, Political, Inner and Global dimensions of twentieth century theatre. Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook provides illuminationg perspectives on past history, and throws fresh light on the sources and development of theatre today. This sourcebook is not only an essential and versatile collection for students at all levels, but also directed numerous devised shows which have toured to theatres, schools, community centres and prisons.

Author : Catharine Christof
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351854627

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Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski by Catharine Christof Pdf

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields in his artistic output. The central argument of the text is that through an embodied and materialist approach to religion, developed in the work of Michel Foucault and religious studies scholar Manuel Vasquez, as well as a critical reading of the concepts of the New Age, a new understanding of Grotowski and religion can be developed. It is possible to show how Grotowski’s work articulated spiritual experience within the body; achieving a removal of spirituality from ecclesial authorities and relocating spiritual experience within the body of the performer. This is a unique analysis of one of the 20th Century’s most famous theatrical figures. As such, it is a vital reference for academics in both Religion and Theatre Studies that have an interest in the spiritual aspects of Grotowski’s work.

Author : Jerzy Grotowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0416146309

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Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski Pdf

Articles by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training.

Author : Kris Salata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136158117

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The Unwritten Grotowski by Kris Salata Pdf

This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski’s work as philosophical practice, and more particularly, as practical research in the phenomenology of being, arguing that Grotowski’s departure from theatrical productions (and thus critical consideration) resulted from his uncompromising pursuit of one central problem, "What does it mean to reveal oneself?" — the very question that drove his stage directing work. The book demonstrates that the answer led him through the path of gradually stripping the theatrical phenomenon down to its most elemental aspect, which shows itself through the craft of the performer as a non-representational event. This particular quality released at the heights of the art of the performer is referred to as aliveness, or true liveness in this study in order to shift scholarly focus onto something that has always fascinated great theatre practitioners, including Stanislavski and Grotowski, and of which academic scholarship has limited grasp. Salata’s theoretical analysis of aliveness reaches out to phenomenology and a broad range of post-structural philosophy and critical theory, through which Grotowski’s project is portrayed as philosophical practice.

Author : Giuliano Campo,Zygmunt Molik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136972478

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Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work by Giuliano Campo,Zygmunt Molik Pdf

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his ‘Body Alphabet’ system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process.

Author : Thomas Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134068630

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Heart of Practice by Thomas Richards Pdf

Heart of Practice is a unique and invaluable insight into the workings of one of theatre’s true pioneers, presented by his closest collaborator. This book charts the development of Grotowski’s dramatic research through a decade of conversations with his apprentice, Thomas Richards. Tuscany’s ‘Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards’ is the enduring legacy of a master teacher, director and theorist, and home to much of Grotowski’s most significant work. Interviewed by leading scholars, and offering his own intimate accounts, Richards gives a vivid and detailed view of the Workcenter’s evolution, providing: concrete illustration of the Workcenter’s distinctive creative practices rigorous discussion of over twenty years of world-renowned research previously unpublished performance photos privileged insight into what Grotowski considered to be the culmination of his life’s work.

Author : Kris Salata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429593871

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Acting after Grotowski by Kris Salata Pdf

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actor’s art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-revelatory action, introduces Grotowski’s concept of "carnal prayer," and develops an interdisciplinary theory of acting and spectating. Acting after Grotowski: Theatre’s Carnal Prayer attempts to overcome the religious/secular binary by treating "prayer" as a pre-religious, originary deed, and ultimately situates theatre along with ritual in their shared territory of play. Grounded in theatre practice, Salata’s narrative moves through postmodern philosophy, critical theory, theatre, performance, ritual, and religious studies, concluding that the fundamental structure of prayer, which underpins the actor’s deed, can be found in any self-revelatory creative act.

Author : Dennis Barnett
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781498527156

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DAH Theatre by Dennis Barnett Pdf

DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook is a collection of essays about the work of one of the most successful and innovative performance groups in contemporary history. With a direct line of descent from Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, DAH Theatre, founded during the worst of times in the former Yugoslavia, amidst a highly patriarchal society, predominantly run by women, has thrived now for twenty-five years. The chapters in this book, for the most part, have been written by both theatre scholars and practitioners, all of whom have either seen, studied with or worked with this groundbreaking troupe. What makes DAH so exceptional? The levels of innovation and passion for them extend far beyond the world of mere performance. They have been politically and socially driven by the tragedies and injustices that they have witnessed within their country and have worked hard to be a force of reconciliation, equity and peace within the world. And those efforts, which began on the dangerous streets of Belgrade in 1991, today, have reached throughout the world. Though they still make their home in Serbia, audiences from as far afield as New Zealand, Mongolia, Brazil and the U.S. have discovered their power – both in purely aesthetic terms and as passionate activists.

Author : Shomit Mitter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134917105

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Systems of Rehearsal by Shomit Mitter Pdf

The gap between theory and practice in rehearsal is wide. many actors and directors apply theories without fully understanding them, and most accounts of rehearsal techniques fail to put the methods in context. Systems of Rehearsal is the first systematic appraisal of the three principal paradigms in which virtually all theatre work is conducted today - those developed by Stanislavsky, Brecht and Grotowski. The author compares each system ot the work of the contemporary director who, says Mitter, is the Great Imitator of each of them: Peter Brook. The result is the most comprehensive introduction to modern theatre available.