Theatre At The Crossroads Of Culture

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134928095

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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis Pdf

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.? A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These focus discussions on translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural misunderstanding, and theatrical exploration. Never losing sight of the theatrical experience, Pavis confronts problems of colonialism, anthropology, and ethnography. This signals a radical movement away from the director and the word, towards the complex relationship between performance, performer, and spectator. Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign' culture speaks for itself.

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780203359334

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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis Pdf

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.? A series of major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These focus discussions on translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural misunderstanding, and theatrical exploration. Never losing sight of the theatrical experience, Pavis confronts problems of colonialism, anthropology, and ethnography. This signals a radical movement away from the director and the word, towards the complex relationship between performance, performer, and spectator. Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign' culture speaks for itself.

Author : Sara Brady,Fintan Walsh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230244788

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Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture by Sara Brady,Fintan Walsh Pdf

The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521541859

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Shakespeare Survey by Stanley Wells Pdf

This year's volume is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare and the Globe, including the original Globe, playhouse of Shakespeare's time, the new Globe Theatre on Bankside and the notion of a global Shakespeare.

Author : Harry Justin Elam,Kennell A. Jackson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472068407

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Black Cultural Traffic by Harry Justin Elam,Kennell A. Jackson Pdf

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 0415081548

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The Intercultural Performance Reader by Patrice Pavis Pdf

Views on intercultural exchanges within theatre practice from contributors including: Peter Brook, Clive Barker, Jacques Lecoq and Rustom Bharucha.

Author : Don Adams,Arlene Goldbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCLA:L0061654893

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Crossroads by Don Adams,Arlene Goldbard Pdf

The authors look at the possibilities for the politics of culture and the culture of politics in the United States in the nineties. They argue for pluralism, participation and equity in culture and community life.

Author : Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350040489

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance by Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre and performance that continue to prioritise case studies emerging primarily from the West and executed by elite artists. By building on a growing field of scholarship on intercultural theatre and performance that examines minoritarian and grassroots work, the volume offers an alternative and multi-vocal view of what interculturalism might offer as a theoretical keyword to the future of theatre and performance studies, while also contributing an energized reassessment of the vociferous debates that have long accompanied its critical and practical usage in a performance context. By exploring anew what happens when interculturalism and performance intersect as embodied practice, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance offers new perspectives on a seminal theoretical concept still as useful as it is controversial. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in intercultural theatre and performance, and performance studies.

Author : Ciara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838263526

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Bridging Cultures by Ciara Pdf

With the rapidly developing globalization of various sectors of modern life, individuals, organizations, and nations are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which cultural diversity may not only be a potential cause of conflict but also a source of growth, creativity, and inspiration. If, traditionally, intercultural mediation has been understood as a conflict-solving strategy or as a means to facilitate communication between individuals from different cultural backgrounds, Bridging Culture aims at providing a framework and a set of theoretical reflections towards a larger vision of the field, presenting mediation as a particular form of critical intervention within the different domains of the humanities. The contributions in the present volume take intercultural mediation to be a multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon, impacting upon the fields of linguistics and literature as well as translation and cultural studies, where themes such as interculturality, multilingualism, and cultural transfer are continual and urgent features of contemporary discourse and debate.

Author : Rossella Ferrari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030372736

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Transnational Chinese Theatres by Rossella Ferrari Pdf

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441103819

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Approaches to Acting by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe Pdf

For centuries the theatre has been one of the major forms of art. How did acting, and its institutionalization in the theatre, begin in the first place? In some cultures complex stories relate the origin of acting and the theatre. And over time, approaches to acting have changed considerably. In the West, until the end of the 19th century, those changes occurred within the realm of acting itself, focusing on the question of whether acting should be 'natural' or 'formal.' Approaches to acting were closely related to the trends in culture at large. Acting became more and more professional and sophisticated as philosophical theories developed and knowledge in the human sciences increased. In the 20th century, the director was established as the most important force in the theater--able to lead actors to pinnacles of their art which they could not have achieved on their own. Approaches to acting in non-Western cultures follow quite different patterns. This book provides a clear overview of different approaches to acting, both historical and contemporary, Western and non-Western, and concludes with a challenge to the future of the art.

Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801481546

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Theories of the Theatre by Marvin A. Carlson Pdf

Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.

Author : Olga Kekis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351253963

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Hypertheatre by Olga Kekis Pdf

Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre which addresses present-day issues. The book’s premise is that by breaking drama into constituent parts, revising, reinterpreting and rewriting to create a new, culturally and politically relevant construct, the process of adaptation creates a 'hyperplay', newly repurposed for the contemporary world. This process is explored through a diverse collection of postmodern adaptations of Antigone, Medea, and The Trojan Women, analysing their adaptive strategies and the evidence of how these remakings reflect the cultures of which they are a part. Central to this study is the idea that each of these adaptations becomes an entirely new play, redefining its central female figures and invoking reconfigurations of femininity which emphasise individual women’s strengths and female solidarity. Written for scholars of Theatre, Adaptation, Performance Studies, and Literature, Hypertheatre places the Greek classics firmly within a contemporary feminist discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969853

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Alternative Theater in Taiwan: Feminist and Intercultural Approaches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Asma Hichri,Samira Mechri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527570467

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Culture at the Crossroads by Asma Hichri,Samira Mechri Pdf

This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power from politico-religious, linguistic, legal and historiographic perspectives. More importantly, the contributions gathered here examine culture’s manifestations in different socio-economic, political, theoretical, and discursive contexts. Being aware of “the crisis in humanities,” researchers, scholars and experts seek to relocate culture and cultural studies within academia and analyze the epistemological relationship between culture and education, while also trying to eschew and refashion the stale conventional methodologies of approaching culture as an academic subject. Is it possible to go beyond the “crisis in humanities” by valorizing culture in social and human sciences, on the one hand, and natural and exact sciences, on the other, especially when we take into consideration the escalation of fundamentalist, extremist and xenophobic tendencies all over the globe? How can we approach the issues of ethics and teaching humanities and sciences? This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of culture that associate it with knowledge and enlightenment to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dialectics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context. Engaging readers in a lively intellectual and cultural debate, this volume is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including historiography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.