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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Theatrical performance"”.
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Ödön von Horváth’s Volksstücke. Sounds and silences in dramaturgy and theatrical performance
… and criticism of Horváth’s Volksstück along with performance analysis of contemporary stage productions based on Horváth’s texts. This study demonstrates that musical and silent interventions support Horváth’s reformation of the Volksstück genre both in its form and spirit. Based on theoretical …
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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
… investigates 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 …
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The Immediate Experience: Analyzing Contemporary Exhibition Spaces through Modern Theatre Theory
… rich potential found in the parallels between theatrical performance and the act of display, with the purpose of understanding the ways in which exhibitions spaces are being designed to interact with the spectator in our present time. By examining four different case studies from contemporary …
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The Mirrored Walls Of Reality:a Journal Of Shattered Reflection
… yearns to achieve, and knows he has destroyed. Theatrical performance is without equal in its ability to conjure visible truth from the reflection man sees everyday and hopelessly fails to recognize. Ultimately, theatre demands that man see himself without the masks of excuse, ignorance, or …
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A Reassessment of the Aesthetics of Audience Response and Audience-Performer Interaction in the Theatrical Event: The Transpersonal Paradigm
… and audience-performer interaction in the theatrical performance. There also is an impasse in research into these matters today. No empirical study of audience-actor interaction during the performance has been able to demonstrate significant effects of such interaction, and, due to the …
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Directing Stop Kiss by Diana Son within a Nontraditional Training Model
… the best way for a stage actor to give a strong theatrical performance is through a traditional training model, I hoped to develop a way for inexperienced actors to perform beyond expectation within the context of one production through a system of mentorship, expectation-setting, and tapping …
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The form of possibilities : the body remembered and remembering in the built environment
… images, and imaginings – and the creation of a theatrical performance, which engages with what language and ideas actually feel like. How they feel and how they look depend not only upon the nature of my own embodied experience but on the remanent embodied experiences of those who view the …
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Amateur and Community-Based Theatre Within Jewish Organizational Spaces in Post-World War II America
… examines amateur and community-based Jewish theatrical performance in Jewish organizational spaces in the United States since World War II, arguing that such productions simultaneously reflect and construct localized Jewish American communities. To define what constitutes a Jewish community, …
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Jouko Turkan Teatterikorkeakoulun kauden yhteiskunnallinen kontekstuaalisuus vuosina 1982 - 1985
… new capitalism and new liberalism, and built a performance environment for actors' educational work, a real life simulation of a new capitalist workplace. Actors educational praxis became a cultural performance, a media spectacle. Turkka's tenure became the most commented upon and discussed era …
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The Dramaturgy of Evocation: A visual dramaturgical framework
… in genera:ng a transforma:onal and immersive theatrical performance, by inves:ga:ng the aspects of materiality, visual language, emo:ons, and signs of haun:ng. The ques:on that prompted the research is: how can we excavate historical tragic events in theatre and dramaturgically posi:on them on …
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Chosi Ntsomi! making a Xhosa theatre identity by adapting Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's folktale about a rite of passage for Xhosa girls
… systems, my study aims to develop dignified theatrical roles for African women. This essay explores the potential of perceptions of Xhosa cultural women, configured in oral storytelling, as a means towards developing a base for Nguni theatre. This explication speaks to the capacities of …
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Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative
… a monolithic racial category, focussing on how performance offers critically generative ways of addressing and contesting the politics and meanings of colouredness in post-apartheid South Africa. This study explores the politics of naming in so far as its impact both from an intrinsic and …
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'Re-writing' Shakespeare in Africa : creating musical relevance for a contemporary South African audience; with special reference to Geoffrey Hyland's production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will, staged at Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in 2006
… and more specifically South African, theatrical context to replace the lost value of audience's musical recognition that was an integral part of performances of Shakespeare's, and other playwrights', plays in Elizabethan England. It makes special reference to a performance of William …
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Decolonial Interstice in Carnaval Montevideano: Murga as Hegemonic Dissent at the Tablado de Barrio
… celebrations in Argentina and Brazil. Carnival performances are competitive and occur in neighborhood stages (tablados de barrio) and private stages (tablados comerciales). A government body judges performances to determine a winning group from each of the five performance genres: Sociedad de …
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Behind the mirror: rereading theatricality in Luciano Fabro's Allestimento Teatrale
… faults Minimalist sculpture for its inherent theatricality. Theatricality, as he defines it, results from the form's anthropomorphic scale and sense of hollowness that imply a presence, like that of a human body, inside the work. The dialogical relationship between the viewer and this interior …
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Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
… important than the play itself. The first known theatrical rituals were performed in spaces which came to hold deep religious significance. Many religious traditions regard certain places as sacred because of spiritually significant events which took place there, sometimes involving the presence …
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Subversive acts : the politics of the female subject in performance
This study analyses the role of theatrical discourse in the relationship between patriarchal ideology and gendered subjectivity. It explores ways in which theatre might be used to encourage the social transgression of patriarchal gender norms and investigates the problems associated with the …
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Infecting the Inanimate: Puppet Theatre Responds to Aids
… tried to addressthe issues underneath them. Theatrical performance became a prevalent way to expressthe frustration and despair about HIV/AIDS, and puppet theatre, in particular, has made acontribution to the discourse.I investigate how puppetry artists have addressed the illness by examining …
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… between dramatic text and the horizon of live performance, its mimetic and spatial disjunctions, its opposition of spectator and actor – invariably lead practitioners and theorists to take a stand with respect to two orientations toward the subject. They are distinguished, I argue, by their …
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Community, space, and performance : a public stage in Central Square
… a facility for formal and informal musical and theatrical performance. The site for this project is in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Southeast comer of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street. The program of the design includes a multi-use theater supported by first and …
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