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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135176353
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134818203
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004392939
The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part. The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques (see A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by the same authors) and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: ■ the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances: festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; ■ the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; ■ the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; ■ the spaces for the performance and those for the spectators: performing spaces in every possible sense of the term; ■ sets, lighting, sound, makeup, costumes, props; ■ the relations established between actor and spectator; ■ the means of transport adopted by actors and even by spectators. Auxiliary techniques repeat themselves not only throughout different historical periods, but also across all theatrical traditions. Interacting dialectically in the stratification of practices, they respond to basic needs that are common to all traditions when a performance has to be created and staged. A comparative overview of auxiliary techniques shows that the material culture of the actor, with its diverse processes, forms and styles, stems from the way in which actors respond to those same practical needs. The authors’ research for this aspect of theatre anthropology was based on examination of practices, texts and of 1400 images, chosen as exemplars.
Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317521137
The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years. Conceived and written by one of the foremost scholars and critics of theatre in the world, it literally takes us from Activism to Zapping, analysing everything along the way from Body Art and the Flashmob to Multimedia and the Postdramatic. What we think of as 'performance' and 'drama' has undergone a transformation in recent decades. Similarly how these terms are defined, used and critiqued has also changed, thanks to interventions from a panoply of theorists from Derrida to Ranciere. Patrice Pavis's Dictionary provides an indispensible roadmap for this complex and fascinating terrain; a volume no theatre bookshelf can afford to be without.
Author : Mike Pearson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415194571
Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.
Author : Anya Peterson Royce
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0759115656
Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines artists as diverse as Fokine and the Ballets Russes, Tewa Indian dancers, 17th century commedia dell'arte, Japanese kabuki and butoh, Zapotec shamans, and the mime of Marcel Marceau, adding her own observations as a professional dancer in the classical ballet tradition. Royce also points to the recent move toward collaboration across artistic genres as evidence of the universality of aesthetics. Her analysis leads to a better understanding of artistic interpretation, artist-audience relationships, and the artistic imagination as cross-cultural phenomena. Over 29 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate the wide range of Royce's cross-cultural approach. Her well-crafted volume will be of great interest to anthropologists, arts researchers, and students of cultural studies and performing arts.
Author : Nicola Savarese
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780415722971
First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802081636
An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.
Author : Robert Layton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521368940
An authoritative introduction to art forms in the non-Western world addresses the problem of cross-cultural aesthetic appreciation in societies ranging from traditional West African craftsmen to Australian hunter-gatherers.
Author : Luci Attala
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786834162
Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. Ultimately, by reminding readers of their indisputable materiality, Body Matters seeks to draw people and the rest of the material world together to illustrate that bodies not only seep into (and are part of) the landscape, but equally that people and the material world are inextricably co-constitutive.