Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work : Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780415988872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 194 str.

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento

Opis

A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent intercultural actors, this study draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and Roberta Carreri (Odin Teatret). By illuminating the hidden creative processes usually unavailable to outsiders--the actor’s apprenticeship, training, character development, and rehearsals--the subtle analyses in Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge ultimately reveal how assumptions based on race or ethnicity are misguiding, trouble definitions of intra- and intercultural practices, and detail how performance analyses and claims of appropriation fail to consider the permanent transformation of the actor’s identity that cultural transmission and embodiment represent.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  1. The Cultural Temperature of the Twentieth Century.  2. Race, Culture, and the Myth of the Authentic.  3. Tenuous Boundaries: Intra- and Intercultural Embodiments.  4. Peep Show: The Hidden Lives of the Intercultural Actor.  5. Fictive Realities: Character and the Eye of the Beholder.  Afterword: A Theatre of Instabilities.  Appendix A: Forgotten Memories in Action: An Interview with Ang Gey Pin.  Appendix B: Playing the Invisible: An Interview with Roberta Carreri.  Notes.  Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar from Rio de Janeiro, with a particular interest in experimental performance. Her articles appear internationally in journals such as　A[l]berto　and　Folhetim (Brazil),　Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy),　Didaskalia (Poland),　Studia Dramatica (Romania), and　TDR and　Theatre Research International (United States). A professor and chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Macalester College, she is also the author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation (Routledge, 2019).