The Grotowski Sourcebook

Author : RICHARD SCHECHNER,Lisa Wolford Wylam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : OCLC:610358344

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The Grotowski Source Book by Richard Schechner Pdf

Author : Catharine Christof
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : James Slowiak,Jairo Cuesta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Paul Allain
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Kris Salata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136158100

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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 : Robert Gordon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472068873

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The Purpose of Playing by Robert Gordon Pdf

A comparative survey of the major approaches to Western acting since the 19th century

Author : Christopher Innes,Maria Shevtsova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107354609

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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing by Christopher Innes,Maria Shevtsova Pdf

This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different rehearsal and staging principles and methods of such earlier groundbreaking figures as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Brecht, revising standard perspectives on their work. The authors analyse, as well, a diverse range of innovative contemporary directors, including Ariane Mnouchkine, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Thomas Ostermeier and Oskaras Koršunovas, among many others. While tracing the different roots of directorial practices across time and space, and discussing their artistic, cultural and political significance, the authors provide key examples of the major directorial approaches and reveal comprehensive patterns in the craft of directing and the influence and collaborative relationships of directors.

Author : Virginie Magnat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135081706

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Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance by Virginie Magnat Pdf

As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance practice and research. Although the particularly strenuous physical training emblematic of Grotowski's approach is not gender specific, it has historically been associated with a masculine conception of the performer incarnated by Ryszard Cieslak in The Constant Prince, thus overlooking the work of Rena Mirecka, Maja Komorowska, and Elizabeth Albahaca, to name only the leading women performers identified with the period of theatre productions. This book therefore redresses this imbalance by focusing on key women from different cultures and generations who share a direct connection to Grotowski's legacy while clearly asserting their artistic independence. These women actively participated in all phases of the Polish director’s practical research, and continue to play a vital role in today's transnational community of artists whose work reflects Grotowski's enduring influence. Grounding her inquiry in her embodied research and on-going collaboration with these artists, Magnat explores the interrelation of creativity, embodiment, agency, and spirituality within their performing and teaching. Building on current debates in performance studies, experimental ethnography, Indigenous research, global gender studies, and ecocriticism, the author maps out interconnections between these women's distinct artistic practices across the boundaries that once delineated Grotowski's theatrical and post-theatrical experiments. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Franc Chamberlain,Bernadette Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317357407

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners by Franc Chamberlain,Bernadette Sweeney Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

Author : Richard Drain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Magda Romanska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783083213

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Magda Romanska Pdf

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780857285164

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The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Franc Chamberlain,Bernadette Sweeney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000402117

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The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice by Franc Chamberlain,Bernadette Sweeney Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world’s key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks, each set of exercises has been edited and contextualised by an expert in that particular approach. Each chapter provides a taster of one practitioner’s work, answering the same key questions: ‘How did this artist work? How can I begin to put my understanding of this to practical use?’ Newly written chapter introductions put the exercises in context, explaining how they fit into the wider methods and philosophy of the practitioner in question. All 21 volumes in the original series are represented in this volume.

Author : Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000894943

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Performing Religion on the Secular Stage by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi Pdf

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other, has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybrid–theater performances that simultaneously re-inscribe and grapple with religion and religious performativity. The book compares this phenomenon with medieval forms of religious theater and offers deep and original analyses of significant contemporary works ranging from plays and performances by August Strindberg, Hugo Ball (Dada), Jerzy Grotowski, and Hanoch Levin, to those created by Adrienne Kennedy, Rina Yerushalmi, Deb Margolin, Milo Rau, and Sarah Ruhl. The book analyzes a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics.