Theaterkritik

This volume collects academic as well as artistic explorations highlighting historical and contemporary approaches to the ¿energetic¿ in its aesthetic and political potential. Energetic processes cross dance, performance art and installations. In contemporary dance and performance art, energetic processes are no longer mere conditions of form but appear as distinct aesthetic interventions. They transform the body, evoke specific states and push towards intensities. International contributors (i.e. Gerald Siegmund, Susan Leigh Foster, Lucia Ruprecht) unfold thorough investigations, elucidating maneuvers of mobilization, activation, initiation, regulation, navigation and containment of forces as well as different potentials and promises associated with the ¿energetic¿.

Die Nachtragsbände zum Deutschen Theater-Lexikon ergänzen und erweitern die Bände I -VII (A - Z, erschienen zwischen 1953 und 2011). Mit Schwerpunkt auf dem 20. Jahrhundert werden Artikel bearbeitet, noch nicht gelistete Persönlichkeiten der deutschsprachigen Bühnen kommen neu hinzu.Das Lexikon enthält bio-bibliographische Angaben zu Dramatikern, Komponisten, Theaterleitern, Regisseuren, Schauspielern, Sängern , Bühnen- und Kostümbildnern.

Der Tanz war sehr frenetisch, rege rasselnd, klingend, rollend, verdreht und dauerte eine lange Zeit - so lautete der Titel der dOCUMENTA (13). Diese documenta habe kein Konzept, sei keine Ausstellung, sondern ein Geisteszustand, behauptete die Künstlerische Leiterin Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Sie artikuliere sich hingegen als verwirrende, unharmonische Choreografie, die über akademische Textproduktion hinausweise. Wie können Kunstwissenschaft, Vermittlung und einzelne Besucherinnen und Besucher mit dieser Herausforderung umgehen? Tim Pickartz legt bei seiner aus umfangreicher Feldforschung hervorgegangenen Dichten Beschreibung Wert auf die Gleichwertigkeit der kuratorischen, vermittlerischen und künstlerischen Diskurse und vermeidet eine Reduktion der komplexen Struktur auf wenige Schlagworte. Die Studie bietet so auch Ansätze für den Umgang mit Ausstellungen im Allgemeinen.

Die Unterscheidung von E-Musik und U-Musik hat ausgedient. Als neuen Ansatz präsentieren Magdalena Fürnkranz und Harald Huber ein Stilfeldermodell und führen es am Beispiel der österreichischen Musiklandschaft der Gegenwart aus. In Form von qualitativen Fallstudien und vergleichenden Analysen erkunden sie Differenzen und Diffusionen zwischen den Stilfeldern 'Klassik/zeitgenössische Musik', 'Jazz/improvisierte Musik', 'Volksmusik/World Music', 'Dance/HipHop/Elektronik', 'Rock- und Popmusik' sowie 'Schlager/volkstümliche Musik'. Der kultursoziologische Ansatz von Pierre Bourdieu erfährt hier eine transformierte Konkretisierung und dient der Neubestimmung musikalisch-kultureller Diversität und Hybridität.

'Theatre as Alter/"Native" in Derek Walcott' attempts a close and detailed politico-aesthetic analysis of his major plays. At the core of this book lies the attempt to answer the question of how postcolonial artists and intellectuals have dared to imagine radically different ways of living in the face of oppositional, binary choices. And as the title suggests, Walcott's plays carve out critical spaces for new narratives of "becoming" and alternative priorities, entangled in contesting identities inscribed by race, language and ethnicity. Theatre, as Walcott knew, would be instrumental in demystifying Caribbean "Absence" and "Void" and generating an alternative version of dominant reality. By a deliberate unseating of the Western texts, filled with banal stereotypes and their representational biases, and by triggering "re-action" to the scripts of the colonizers in profoundly paradoxical ways, Walcott's plays affirm the Caribbean identity. This study seeks to demonstrate how his plays open an alter/"native" universe in terms of aesthetics, dramaturgy and the performative, and reclaims 'New World' identity in terms of negotiation rather than negation-undermining the claim of "solid", "authentic" culture. Placing the arts at the forefront of nation-building, Walcott situated his plays at a crucial juncture between the passing of the Empire and the newly-born Federation in his archipelago.

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'Theatre as Alter/"Native" in Derek Walcott' attempts a close and detailed politico-aesthetic analysis of his major plays. At the core of this book lies the attempt to answer the question of how postcolonial artists and intellectuals have dared to imagine radically different ways of living in the face of oppositional, binary choices. And as the title suggests, Walcott's plays carve out critical spaces for new narratives of "becoming" and alternative priorities, entangled in contesting identities inscribed by race, language and ethnicity. Theatre, as Walcott knew, would be instrumental in demystifying Caribbean "Absence" and "Void" and generating an alternative version of dominant reality. By a deliberate unseating of the Western texts, filled with banal stereotypes and their representational biases, and by triggering "re-action" to the scripts of the colonizers in profoundly paradoxical ways, Walcott's plays affirm the Caribbean identity. This study seeks to demonstrate how his plays open an alter/"native" universe in terms of aesthetics, dramaturgy and the performative, and reclaims 'New World' identity in terms of negotiation rather than negation-undermining the claim of "solid", "authentic" culture. Placing the arts at the forefront of nation-building, Walcott situated his plays at a crucial juncture between the passing of the Empire and the newly-born Federation in his archipelago.

What is juggling? For the purposes of this history, juggling is broadly defined as the manipulation of objects. So this book discusses hoop rolling, plate spinning, traditional club and ball juggling, hat juggling and lots of balancing. There are also many discussions of individual jugglers, including international visitors like Cinquevalli and American minstrels like Joseph Jalvan. Australia also produced some incredible jugglers, including amazing circus performers like Marizles Wirth, international superstars like Stan Kavanagh, and local talents like Arnold Jarvis.

How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian's work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of commedia dell'arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy. They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands. This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian's work-including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody-across time.

Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one-act play, Bound East for Cardiff, by a little-known playwright, Eugene O'Neill. They staged the play in a rickety old theater on a wharf in what was then little more than a sleepy fishing village. From that artists' colony--and others like it across the Cape and Islands--it grew into the constantly expanding theater universe it is today. The theatrical descendants of O'Neill and the Provincetown Players continue to present classical drama, contemporary hits and new, experimental works to audiences that have come to expect the best. In her tour of the theaters from Provincetown to Falmouth, author and entertainment columnist Sue Mellen reveals the rich past behind a unique cultural treasure.

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference. Theatre History Studies is devoted to research in all areas of theatre studies, with special interest in archival research, historical documentation, and historiography. 

This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1900 to 1949, covering the prosperity of Peking Opera, the advent of play and colorful local dramas.

In 'Imaginary Performances', visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. To these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay 'Confessions,' an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director.

This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.

Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president and themselves.

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