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Author: Dominika Laster Publisher: ISBN: 9781243760296 Category : Theater Languages : en Pages : 296
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This dissertation explores several themes central to the work of theatre director Jerzy Grotowski including body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, "verticality," and transmission. The study identifies two types of body-memory in Grotowski's research: personal and ancestral. The former was deployed as a tool of self-penetration undertaken by the actor, in which memory constitutes an instrument for the rediscovery of impulses of a past moment. The latter phases of Grotowski's research were concerned with "ancestral memories." Active remembering in relation to "the ancestor" - real or imagined - functioned as a means for the search for one's essence, understood as the most intimate, pre-cultural aspect of the self which precedes difference. Next, the dissertation examines vigilance, or heightened awareness, by considering paratheatrical events such as Night Vigil and The Vigil. These events are set against the background of traditional Polish and Eastern European rituals associated with the vigil. I argue that vigilance facilitated acts of witnessing, both on the part of the actor and spectator. I explore the ways in which the performative act constitutes evidence of the actor's heightened awareness, and argue that it is this very act of testification that transforms the status of spectator into witness. Working with Haitian songs and ritual movements as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition, Grotowski developed extremely precise performance structures, deeply tied to what he considered archaic vertical structures, figured in images such as that of Jacob's ladder. These opuses constituted tools for the refinement of one's energies. The study explores Grotowski's conceptualization of human relationality, particularly vis-?is the notion of twinship, which recurs both in the Gnostic literature and subsequently appears in the performance work. Finally, the dissertation examines the complexity and multi-directionality of transmission by examining Grotowski's real and imagined relationship with Haiti. I explore Grotowski's broadly-construed understanding of ancestral relations and multiple lineages by considering his relationship with the Haitian Vodou priest, Amon Fr?n, as well as Grotowski's work with the "performative artifacts" of the Afro-Haitian line, which constitute the embodied practices associated with Vodou.
Author: Dominika Laster Publisher: ISBN: 9781243760296 Category : Theater Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
This dissertation explores several themes central to the work of theatre director Jerzy Grotowski including body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, "verticality," and transmission. The study identifies two types of body-memory in Grotowski's research: personal and ancestral. The former was deployed as a tool of self-penetration undertaken by the actor, in which memory constitutes an instrument for the rediscovery of impulses of a past moment. The latter phases of Grotowski's research were concerned with "ancestral memories." Active remembering in relation to "the ancestor" - real or imagined - functioned as a means for the search for one's essence, understood as the most intimate, pre-cultural aspect of the self which precedes difference. Next, the dissertation examines vigilance, or heightened awareness, by considering paratheatrical events such as Night Vigil and The Vigil. These events are set against the background of traditional Polish and Eastern European rituals associated with the vigil. I argue that vigilance facilitated acts of witnessing, both on the part of the actor and spectator. I explore the ways in which the performative act constitutes evidence of the actor's heightened awareness, and argue that it is this very act of testification that transforms the status of spectator into witness. Working with Haitian songs and ritual movements as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition, Grotowski developed extremely precise performance structures, deeply tied to what he considered archaic vertical structures, figured in images such as that of Jacob's ladder. These opuses constituted tools for the refinement of one's energies. The study explores Grotowski's conceptualization of human relationality, particularly vis-?is the notion of twinship, which recurs both in the Gnostic literature and subsequently appears in the performance work. Finally, the dissertation examines the complexity and multi-directionality of transmission by examining Grotowski's real and imagined relationship with Haiti. I explore Grotowski's broadly-construed understanding of ancestral relations and multiple lineages by considering his relationship with the Haitian Vodou priest, Amon Fr?n, as well as Grotowski's work with the "performative artifacts" of the Afro-Haitian line, which constitute the embodied practices associated with Vodou.
Author: Dominika Laster Publisher: ISBN: 9780857423177 Category : Experimental theater Languages : en Pages : 0
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One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowski's career. In Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory, Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowski's work such as body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, verticality, and transmission, arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate blurring of the boundaries of the self and other. This comprehensive study traces key thematic threads across all phases of Grotowski's research, examining lesser-known aspects of his praxis such as performance compositions structured around African and Afro-Caribbean traditional songs and ritual movement, as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition. As an active process of research and questioning conducted through the "body-being" of the performer, the Grotowski work is a practical realization of the often highly theoretical and abstract discussions of one of the field's main preoccupations: embodied practice as a way of knowing.
Author: Catharine Christof Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1351854623 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 248
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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: Giuliano Campo Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136972471 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 182
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One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his ‘Body Alphabet’ system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process.
Author: James Slowiak Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351174762 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 158
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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: Kris Salata Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429593872 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 223
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For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actor’s art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-revelatory action, introduces Grotowski’s concept of "carnal prayer," and develops an interdisciplinary theory of acting and spectating. Acting after Grotowski: Theatre’s Carnal Prayer attempts to overcome the religious/secular binary by treating "prayer" as a pre-religious, originary deed, and ultimately situates theatre along with ritual in their shared territory of play. Grounded in theatre practice, Salata’s narrative moves through postmodern philosophy, critical theory, theatre, performance, ritual, and religious studies, concluding that the fundamental structure of prayer, which underpins the actor’s deed, can be found in any self-revelatory creative act.
Author: Eugenio Barba Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004392939 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 420
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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.
Author: Franc Chamberlain Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131735740X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 636
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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: Paul Allain Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474259936 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 264
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This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work has challenged and extended ideas about what theatre is and does. Contributors demonstrate how each was instrumental in rethinking and reinventing theatre's possibilities: where it takes place – whether in theatres or beyond – and who the audience might then be, as well as how actors train and perform, highlighting the importance of the group and collaboration. The volume examines their role in establishing intercultural dialogues and practices, and the wider influence of this work on theatre. Consideration is also given to each director's documentation of their practice in print and film and the influence this has had on 21st-century performance.
Author: Dominika Laster
Author: Dominika Laster
Author: Dominika Laster
Author: Catharine Christof
Author: Giuliano Campo
Author: James Slowiak
Author: Jerzy Grotowski
Author: Kris Salata
Author: Eugenio Barba
Author: Franc Chamberlain
Author: Paul Allain