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Showing 1 to 20 of 323 for “"Theatre and Performance"”.
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Spaces of Appearance: Writings on Contemporary Theatre and Performance
… published materials, reflects a 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 …
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Of place and playmaking: working with everyday city spaces through theatre and performance
This thesis proposes theatre and performance as tools for understanding the relational emergence of city spaces. It responds to two related urban studies calls. The first is for fine-grained ethnographies of the everyday to learn what city spaces might be becoming in order to strategise how to …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
… dissertation explores the intersection of race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during US active engagement in the Great War through focusing on performances by and about German immigrants and African American soldiers. Quickly after President Woodrow Wilson requested a …
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Theatre, performance and digital culture
… culture may be used as a lens through which live theatre and performance may be analysed. I argue that the aesthetics, immersion and play with identity in live theatre and performance are informed by digital culture through the behaviour and agency of the participants, be they audience or …
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Countersexuality in Times of Neomachismo: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Spanish Performance (1988–2019)
… of gender in Spanish contemporary experimental theatre and performance art. Using Paul B. Preciado’s concept of countersexuality, I argue that an embodied practice like theatre can model new forms of being-in-the-world that supersede binaries of gender and sexuality. Specifically, I analyze how …
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
This dissertation investigates how theatre and performance artists use new media tools to facilitate political engagement. The chapters cover a diverse range of performancesfrom interventions in video games to mobile phone walking tours to theatre productions that use social media. In contrast to …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… ‘non-normative’ masculinities constructed and represented in American drama, theatre and performance throughout the second half of the twentieth century, thus assessing the ‘queer’ challenges these masculinities present to hegemonic ‘heteronormativity.’ To identify the historical, social …
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Embracing space : reviewing the body-space nexus as a creative tool, inspired by the theories of Rudolph Laban and the Bauhaus movement
My MA in theatre and performance investigates the relationship between the body and space, with a view to using it to generate content and choreography for dance theatre productions. I draw my research from the theories of Rudolph Laban and the Bauhaus movement. Laban's view of space as a living …
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Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies
… experimental music, experimental theatre, and experimental film, in addition to the term's etymology, scientific usage, and colloquial deployment--in order to derive a deeper understanding of what we mean when we say an artwork is experimental, and how this term can help us …
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Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre
<p>In this dissertation, I draw upon theatre and performance literature, science and technology studies, and art theory to attend the distinctive dramaturgical features of lecture-performance and other contemporary examples of epistemic theatres. After theorizing their roots, their causes, and …
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Creating Theatre-Based Curriculum for use in the ESL/EFL Language Classroom: A Model
… study of the English language as part of the standard curriculum in K-12 schools. Unfortunately, many students lack the interest and motivation to learn, despite English’s potential to open future academic and professional doors. This is particularly true for students living in countries where …
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Ouma : performing the myth of the self
… the fulfilment of the degree Masters of Arts in Theatre and Performance (Theatre Making) at the University of Cape Town. The explication focuses largely on what happens when the myth structuring the identity of an individual changes. How does the individual go about re-narrating identity within …
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Recommencing reality : the intersection of public and private identity in performative contexts
This paper explores the convergence and cusp of colliding realities in private and public identities in performative contexts. It draws heavily on a Socio-Anthropological system of the self and fictive personas within these constructs - as well as the perscnlpersonalpersonality trichotomy inherent …
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Presentness: Developing Presence Through Psychophysical Actor-Training
Abstract There is a variety of understandings of the notion of presence in theatre and performance studies as well as in the field of actor-training. Presentness, an aspect of presence, is the experience of the emerging here and now as shaped by the performer’s psychophysical engagement with his or …
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(In)authentic Participation: Contemporary Participatory Performance Practice, Social Media & Neoliberalism
… engagement in contemporary western European theatre and performance since the mid-2000s. The concern at the root of contemporary participatory performance practice is the authenticity or inauthenticity with which one constitutes and presents one’s self in contemporary digitised society. …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- informed, but capable of generating social justice? To answer this question I engage in interdisciplinary research across Theatre and …
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How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics
… through my Practice as Research process into, and later development of, what eventually became a performance and literary work entitled Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations. The paper details in the first part, Modes of Disidentification, the practices of three black, interdisciplinary …
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Creating and inhabiting heightened theatrical landscapes
… approach as a director with regards to creating and inhabiting Heightened Theatrical Landscapes. Primarily it deals with the role of the director as the actor's guide into to an extended space where the actor is the audience's envoy into the unlived human experience. It is a supporting document …
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Slamming into the visceral pleasure of language: the value of disordered spaces and its impact on contemporary vocal landscapes
… delivery is foregrounded as physical activity and has a re-patterning effect on the vocal landscapes of young actors. A disordered space co-opts elements from the vocal art forms of the popular phenomenon of the Spoken Word Movement. Disordered spaces act as an intervention on the traditional …
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I'm not going back to the Township; Re-imagining 'trauma' as tragedy.
… responds to trauma through the tragic form of theatre, it understands tragedy as a means in performance to try to foster healing using the practice of performance as a mode of research. It argues that as a practice, theatre making in the South African context is affected by traumatic experience …
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