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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Performance text"”.
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
This dissertation interrogates obscured Indigenous identities by way of an original dramatic script that employs story-telling as an inherent cultural device that sustains a sense of peoplehood. In an art-based inquiry, I use Gerald Vizenor's notion of "postindian" to respond to the ways in which …
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The Power of the Hula: A Performance Text for Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth
… aspect of Hawaiian arts is the hula kahiko, a text in motion, which when performed displays the story of Hawaii's past. The hula was forbidden by Protestant missionaries in the 1820's and was reduced to near cultural extinction. As a result, many First Hawaiians do not clearly understand the …
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Investigating invention : a challenge to the primacy of the written text
… the playwright as author of the dramatic text, the devising group as author of the dramatic and/or performance text, and the director as author of the mise en scene. In the first chapter the playwright as author is examined in relation to a historical view of the dramatic text. My own …
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Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas
… women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra …
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Mise-en-Scene as (pre)text; an insistence on a negotiated space for the creating of new theatre works
… is to reflect on the activity of writing for performance, with the focus specifically on the generation of the dramatic text, and to further the notion of mise en scene as prescribed by Pavis. (Pavis, 1983: 25) This is in relation to the making of a new South African play entitled Reach, …
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"within the hollow crown": Performing Kingship in Richard II and Henry IV Part One
… or played by the same actor onstage, in performance. Criticism on the plays has often addressed the parallels between the two characters, but as of yet no one has examined ways to show this in performance. This paper acts as a form of critical introduction for a proposed combined …
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Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel
… my development as a writer and dramaturg of performance texts with Ranters Theatre over a twenty-two-year period, covering three phases of work, each of which engage everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is text dramaturgy, how the text is constructed, critiqued and dramaturged …
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La mandragola
… Though Sices claims fidelity to Machiavelli’s texts in his introduction, my experience with his work—as both a theatre director and a student of Italian Renaissance literature—has proven otherwise. In particular, Sices’s translation of La Mandragola (titled The Mandrake in his edition) plays …
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Designing social identities : a case study of a primary school theatrical performance by Zulu children in an English ex-model C school
… the discourses that emerge in a theatrical performance, constructed and performed by a group of grade seven, Zulu speaking students as a representation of themselves. The performance was set in an ex-model C primary school in Kwa-Zulu Natal and reflects the tensions between the students' …
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… intercultural body format? How to create a performance with an extracultural approach? Invasion, migration, and population dislocation over the last five centuries has caused significant movement amongst global populations. Cross-cultural performances have developed from these invasions, …
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I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth
"This auto/ethnographic, sacred performance text constitutes a radical, interpretive, political act. It argues for and is an exemplar of, what I define as a socially conscious, imagination-intellect. It counters the traditional notion that scientists or so-called rational thinkers, and artists or …
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Theatre Translation Through Collaboration : Dramaturgical Approaches to the Translation of Two Czech Plays in Dramatic Space
… the plays Poker Face (same title in the original text) by Petr Kolečko and From the Dust of Stars (Z prachu hvězd) by Lenka Lagronová.The main research question centres on the processes involved in theatre translation: the ways in which theatre translation is affected by the rehearsal and how …
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A case study of Tracie Morris's Project Princess
In this study, I explore the intertextuality in spoken word poetry using Tracie Morris’s spoken word poem Project Princess (1998) as a case study. My hypothesis is that the intertextuality in spoken word poetry is derived from its genealogical contributions. Using narrative inquiry, I investigate …
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Performing school nursing: Narratives of providing support to children and young people.
… inquiry approach, presented as a performative text, this study set out to address the following research question, ‘How do school nurses provide support to young people?’ Stories were gathered from eleven school nurses to explore their experiences of providing support to young people using …
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(Im)possibilities of building community and negotiating belonging in institutional theatre during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia: a comparative study of cases from Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade
… The comparative study method, underpinned by performance, text, and material analysis of primary and secondary sources from Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo, affords a critical framework for examining socio-political distinctions and similarities that might lead to new insights about the …
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Spaces of Appearance: Writings on Contemporary Theatre and Performance
… plural and evolving engagement with theatre and performance over the past fifteen years or so: as researcher, writer, editor, teacher, practitioner, spectator. These have rarely been discreet categories for me, but rather different modalities of exploration and enquiry, interrelated spaces …
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An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Learning in an Early Childhood Education and Care Degree
… maintain their primacy in a powerful evocative performance text called ‘A Dawn Chorus’. In exposing the influences on the author’s researcher and learner identity the thesis performs a becoming-other and achieves a relative deterritorialization of the pedagogical spaces of teaching and learning …
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
In this dissertation, "Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's and Weiss's Theaters of Embodiment," I compare theories of acting and spectatorship in theatre and film, focusing on representations of the human body in the work of Samuel Beckett and Peter Weiss. I argue that film and theatre acting must be …
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Visual Cueing: Investigating the Effects of Text Annotation on Student Retention Rates
… were given ten minutes to read a pre-selected text. The text consisted of an 1,807 word lesson on the, "Technical Training Management System." Each group was given five minutes to take a twenty item quiz. Fifty-five students in the control group were limited to only reading the material. …