The Great Festival: A Theoretical Performance Narrative of Antiquity's Feasts and the Modern Rock Festival

ISBN-13: 9780367204952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 164 str.

Olav Harslof

Opis

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival. The purpose is to set up two comparable structures or 'codes' to explain the universal artistic effects, structures and fascination of the festival.

O autorze

Olav Harsløf is former professor at the Department of Performance Design, Roskilde University, Denmark, and before that head of The Danish National Academy of Theatre, and the Danish National Conservatory of Rhythmic Music. He has, together with Dorita Hannah, edited the book Performance Design (Museum Tusculanum Press 2008) and written the article "PHantom of the Operas in Sidney and Copenhagen"; and together with Erik Kristiansen edited the book Engaging Spaces - Sites of Performance, Interaction and Reflection 　(Museum Tusculanum Press 2015) and written the article "Space as Provocation".