Theatre And Phenomenology

Author : Maaike Bleeker,Jon Foley Sherman,Eirini Nedelkopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317617938

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Performance and Phenomenology by Maaike Bleeker,Jon Foley Sherman,Eirini Nedelkopoulou Pdf

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological methodology and against performance as a field of study and category of artistic production, the volume provides both an introduction to core thinkers and an expansion on their ideas in a wide range of case studies. Whether addressing the use of dead animals in performance, actor training, the legal implications of thinking phenomenologically about how we walk, or the intertwining of digital and analog perception, each chapter explores a world comprised of embodied action and thought. The established and emerging scholars contributing to the volume develop insights central to the phenomenological tradition while expanding on the work of contemporary theorists and performers. In asking why performance and phenomenology belong in conversation together, the book suggests how they can transform each other in the process and what is at stake in this transformation.

Author : Stuart Grant,Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie,Matthew Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319980591

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Performance Phenomenology by Stuart Grant,Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie,Matthew Wagner Pdf

This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and everyday performance of self. It argues that despite the wide variety of philosophical, ontological, epistemological, historical and methodological differences across the field of phenomenology, certain tendencies and impulses are required for an investigation to stand as truly phenomenological. These include: description of experience; a move towards fundamental conditions or underlying essences; and an examination of taken-for-granted presuppositions. The book is aimed at scholars and practitioners of performance looking to deepen their understanding of phenomenological concepts and methods, and philosophers concerned with issues of embodiment, performativity and enaction.

Author : Daniel Johnston (Lecturer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Acting
ISBN : 1789384109

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Phenomenology for Actors by Daniel Johnston (Lecturer) Pdf

This book explores how phenomenology - the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience - can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.

Author : Daniel Johnston
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137530509

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Theatre and Phenomenology by Daniel Johnston Pdf

What it means to 'be' goes to the heart of drama. But in order to engage with theatre's Being-in-the-world, we need to attend to the meaning of being both in everyday life and in the creative process. This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to key concepts of phenomenology in relation to theatre, showing how they shed light on the works of influential theatre-makers such as Brecht, Artaud, and Stanislavski. By placing these concepts in dialogue with theatre-makers, Johnston is able to demonstrate how philosophical ideas can be put to work in a theatrical context and how we can approach difficult theory from a practical perspective.

Author : Daniel Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137530523

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Theatre and Phenomenology by Daniel Johnston Pdf

This core textbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key concepts of phenomenology in relation to theatre, showing how they shed light on the works of influential theatre-makers such as Brecht, Artaud, and Stanislavski. By placing these concepts in dialogue with theatre-makers, Johnston is able to demonstrate how philosophical ideas can be put to work in a theatrical context and how we can approach difficult theory from a practical perspective. Each chapter features exercises and topics for discussion to encourage readers to explore the ideas presented in more depth. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre, performance studies, and philosophy.

Author : Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319917948

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Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre by Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Pdf

This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship. Drawing upon phenomenological accounts of movement experience and the insights of cognitive science, neuroscience, acting theory, dance theory, philosophy of mind, and linguistics, it considers how we inhabit the movements of others and how these movements inhabit us. Individual chapters explore the dynamics of movement and animation, action and intentionality, kinesthetic resonance (or mirroring), language, speech, and empathy. In one of its most important contributions to the study of theatre, performance, and spectatorship, this book foregrounds otherness, divergence, and disability in its account of movement perception. The discussions of this and other issues are accompanied by detailed analysis of theatre, puppetry, and dance performances.

Author : Daniel Johnston
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789384095

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Phenomenology for Actors by Daniel Johnston Pdf

A valuable new touchstone for phenomenology and performance as research. In this book, Daniel Johnston examines how phenomenology can describe, analyze, and inspire theater-making. Each chapter introduces themes to guide the creative process through objects, bodies, spaces, time, history, freedom, and authenticity. Key examples in the work are drawn from Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Sophocles' Antigone, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Practical tasks throughout explore how the theatrical event can offer unique insights into being and existence, as Johnston's philosophical perspective shines light on broader existential issues of being. In this way, the book makes a bold contribution to the study of acting as an embodied form of philosophy and reveals how phenomenology can be a rich source of creativity for actors, directors, designers, and collaborators in the performance process. Brimming with insight into the practice and theory of acting, this original new work stimulates new approaches to rehearsal and sees theater-making as capable of speaking back to philosophical discourse.

Author : Bruce W. Wilshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Identity (Psychology)
ISBN : 0253054370

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Role Playing and Identity by Bruce W. Wilshire Pdf

Author : Phillip Zarrilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000682335

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(toward) a phenomenology of acting by Phillip Zarrilli Pdf

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a ‘question’ to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon. This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski’s essential question: "How does the actor ‘touch that which is untouchable?’" Phenomenology invites us to listen to "the things themselves", to be attentive to how we sensorially, kinesthetically, and affectively engage with acting as a phenomenon and process. Using detailed first-person accounts of acting across a variety of dramaturgies and performances from Beckett to newly co-created performances to realism, it provides an account of how we ‘do’ or practice phenomenology when training, performing, directing, or teaching. Zarrilli brings a wealth of international and intercultural experience as a director, performer, and teacher to this major new contribution both to the practices of acting and to how we can reflect in depth on those practices. An advanced study for actors, directors, and teachers of acting that is ideal for both the training/rehearsal studio and research, (toward) a phenomenology of acting is an exciting move forward in the philosophical understanding of acting as an embodied practice.

Author : Bert O. States
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520908604

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Great Reckonings in Little Rooms by Bert O. States Pdf

This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a thesis, and it will not be one of those useful books one reads for the fruits of its research. Rather, it is a form of critical description that is phenomenological in the sense that it focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc. Like most phenomenological description, it will succeed to the extent that it awakens the reader's memory of his own perceptual encounters with theater. If the book fails in this it will be about as interesting to read as an anthology of someone else's dreams. In any case, this book is less concerned with the scientific purity of my perspective and method than with retrieving something from the theater experience that seems to me worthy of our critical admiration.

Author : Stanton Garner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501735370

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Bodied Spaces by Stanton Garner Pdf

"At me too someone is looking... " —Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In a venturesome study of corporeality and perception in contemporary drama, Stanton B. Garner, Jr., turns this awareness of the spectator's gaze back upon itself. His book takes up two of drama's most essential and elusive elements: spatiality, through which plays establish fields of visual and environmental relationship; and the human body, through which these fields are articulated. Within the spatial terms of theater, this book puts the body and its perceptual worlds back into performance theory. Garner's approach is phenomenological, emphasizing perception and experience in the theatrical environment. His discussion of the work of playwrights after 1950-including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Peter Weiss, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Edward Bond, Maria Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, and Ntozake Shange—explores the body's modes of presence in contemporary drama. Drawing on work in areas as diverse as scenographic theory, medical phenomenology, contemporary linguistics, and feminist theories of the body, Garner addresses topics such as theatrical image, stage objects, dramatic language, the suffering body, and the staging of gender, all with a view toward developing a phenomenology of mise en scene.

Author : Sabine Sörgel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030415013

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Contemporary African Dance Theatre by Sabine Sörgel Pdf

This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology, whiteness, and the gaze. Rather than a discussion of African dance per se, the author challenges hegemonic perceptions of contemporary African dance theatre to interrogate the extent to which white supremacy and privilege weave through capitalist necropolitics and determine our perception of contemporary African dance theatre today. Multiple aesthetic strategies are discussed throughout the book to account for the affective experience of ‘un-suturing’ that touches white spectatorship and colonial guilt at their core. The critical analysis covers a broad range of dance choreography by artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Canada, Europe, and the US as they travel, create, and show their works internationally to global audiences to contest racial divides and white supremacist politics.

Author : Bruce W. Wilshire
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253350255

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Role Playing and Identity by Bruce W. Wilshire Pdf

[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre . . . has ever had. - Performing Arts Journal " . . . Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects of the human condition in its necessary search for selfhood." - Process Studies "It is one of the American classics." - Human Studies

Author : Jan Mrázek
Publisher : Kitlv Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000004557270

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Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre by Jan Mrázek Pdf

No previous work on wayang has treated in depth what is the focus of this book: the power of the theatrical medium, the actuality of the performance as a physical, emotional, and social experience and event, and the sensations and feelings involved in performing and watching an all-night wayang performance. A single puppeteer moves puppets, delicately carved and painted according to a complex iconography, in dance-like patterns integrated with continuous music, which he also directs; he speaks the voices of all characters; and he represents beings and a mythological world that reflect (on) the human world, including the specific occasion and the people present. Paying attention to the wholeness of the 'multimedia' performance as an event, as well as to the sensations, subtle movements, and particular intonations of the performance, the author of this book bases his 'thick description' on years of learning to perform wayang, attending and participating in performances, interviews and discussions with people involved with wayang, supplemented by study of texts, from old manuscripts and performance manuals to newspaper articles and reports on performances. He shows the need not to be limited to any single discipline: in wayang, the relationships and interaction, for example, between visual movements and music, or between actions on the screen and actions among the audience-participants, are no less significant than, for example, the relationships within music. The book includes the most extensive discussion of recent changes in wayang theatre, its interaction with various traditional and modern entertainments, and the ways it is affected by politics and economy. A postscript focuses on the post-Soeharto era. The book is a contribution to the study of Indonesian performing arts and culture, but it is also intended for anyone interested in theatre and performing arts generally. Book jacket.

Author : Bert O. States
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520908600

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Great Reckonings in Little Rooms by Bert O. States Pdf

This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a thesis, and it will not be one of those useful books one reads for the fruits of its research. Rather, it is a form of critical description that is phenomenological in the sense that it focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc. Like most phenomenological description, it will succeed to the extent that it awakens the reader's memory of his own perceptual encounters with theater. If the book fails in this it will be about as interesting to read as an anthology of someone else's dreams. In any case, this book is less concerned with the scientific purity of my perspective and method than with retrieving something from the theater experience that seems to me worthy of our critical admiration.