[PDF] The Body Theater eBook

Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1992-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810110431

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To see through the eyes of essayist and dramaturge Jan Kott is to gain in knowledge not just of the theater but also of human culture. Since his Shakespeare Our Contemporary appeared in English in 1964, Kott's work has altered—and strengthened—the way critics and the public approach the theater as a whole. The Memory of the Body highlights a number of dramatic personalities and personages: authors and directors Witkiewicz, Brecht, Kantor, Grotoswki, Ingmar Bergman, Wedekind; Tilly Newes on the stage in turn-of-the-century Vienna; the all-too-mortal, two-thirds divine Gilgamesh; and a shaman in rural Korea. In a style flecked with passion, poignancy, and wit, Kott moves beyond a mere discussion of theater to speak of eroticism, painting, love, and death.

Author : Tadashi Suzuki
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1559368071

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"Mr. Suzuki's art seeks to reach audiences not through the intellect but through the senses and instincts."—New York Times "In my opinion, a 'cultured' society is one where the perceptive and expressive abilities of the human body are used to the full; where they provide the basic means of communication."—Tadashi Suzuki Renowned for his actor training methods, Tadashi Suzuki provides a thorough and accessible formulation of his ideas and beliefs in this new edition of his theater writings. One of the world's most revered theater directors, Suzuki is also a seminal thinker and practitioner whose work has had a profound influence on theater worldwide. This landmark collection provides a useful, provocative look at his philosophical and practical approaches to the stage. Culture is the Body is a complete revision of Suzuki's influential book The Way of Acting, featuring new essays and in a revised translation by Kameron Steele, a longtime collaborator of Suzuki's. Legendary theater director Tadashi Suzuki explains his revered approach in this new edition of his writings. Tadashi Suzuki is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), the organizer of Japan's first international theater festival (Toga Festival), and the creator of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. Suzuki has articulated his theories in a number of books. He has taught his system of actor training in schools and theaters throughout the world. Besides productions with his own company, he has directed several international collaborations.

Author : R. Darren Gobert
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 080478826X

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Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between spectacle and spectators. Yet theater scholars have not seen Descartes's transformational impact on theater history. Nor have philosophers looked to this history to understand his reception and impact. After Descartes, playwrights put Cartesian characters on the stage and thematized their rational workings. Actors adapted their performances to account for new models of subjectivity and physiology. Critics theorized the theater's emotional and ethical benefits in Cartesian terms. Architects fostered these benefits by altering their designs. The Mind-Body Stage provides a dazzlingly original picture of one of the most consequential and confusing periods in the histories of modern theater and philosophy. Interdisciplinary and comparatist in scope, it uses methodological techniques from literary study, philosophy, theater history, and performance studies and draws on scores of documents (including letters, libretti, religious jeremiads, aesthetic treatises, and architectural plans) from several countries.

Author : Eric Salzman
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195099362

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"The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book, written for the reader who comes from the contemporary worlds of music, theater, film, literature, and visual arts, provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves but of the concepts, ideas and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James R. Hamilton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0470766107

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The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

Author : Joyce McDougall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135888280

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Using the theatre as a central metaphor, this text provides a flexible framework to explore the psychic realities of the characters within us. Case studies underscore how different kinds of patients construct particular fantasies as a response to the pain of earlier life scenarios.

Author : Hollis Huston
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9780472103089

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The book also offers a poetics of the central stage and suggests a new way of writing about performance.

Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472051113

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Author : Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781848422858

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Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.

Author : Karen Brazell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780231108737

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The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.