Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake - politically and aesthetically - when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre. A series of recent productions are analyzed, including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande and Barba's Faust. These tend to focus discussions of translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural problems of colonialism, anthropology and ethnography.
Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice...
Analyzing Performance provides conceptual tools for understanding a range of performance, including theater, dance, cinema, other audiovisual media, and mime. This richly illustrated book develops protocols for the analysis of performance at every level -- from the minute gestures and facial expressions of an actor to the social network in which theater is embedded -- and respects the importance of every aspect of performance, including actor, costume, space, time, music, and lighting. With a keen awareness of the roles of social context in the interpretation of performance, Patrice...
Analyzing Performance provides conceptual tools for understanding a range of performance, including theater, dance, cinema, other audiovisual m...
This study considers the staged reading, and the frontiers of mise en scene scenography, which sometimes replaces staging the reinterpretation of classical and contemporary works the extension of intercultural theatre and ritual new technologies and their live usage on the stage the postmodern practice of deconstruction.
This study considers the staged reading, and the frontiers of mise en scene scenography, which sometimes replaces staging the reinterpretation of clas...
This new book from one of the world's leading theatre scholars focuses on the way that Korean culture and society 'presents' itself in the performing arts and through cultural performance. Patrice Pavis explores a wide range of Korean cultural productions across theatre, film, performance and music to re-evaluate the current state of theories of globalization and culture, and offers a much-needed discussion of national identity and performance from this neglected region.
This new book from one of the world's leading theatre scholars focuses on the way that Korean culture and society 'presents' itself in the performing ...
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...
The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance...
