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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"dramaturgy"”.
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The dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek
<p>The focus of this dissertation is the dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek. The study was triggered by a striking disproportion in Mrożekian criticism. There is a multitude of minor articles and reviews, but not a single monographic study devoted to the dramatist and his work. Such a state of affairs …
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Scenography and Dramaturgy of the City
The perceived deficiencies of the contemporary theory and practice of architecture and urban design lead to the main inquiry of this study: What theoretical approaches could reintroduce “human” elements of life, beauty and wholeness into contemporary cities? The primary thesis is divided further …
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Translation and dramaturgy : translating Casina for performance
Theatre translation theory has for some time been destabilised, particularly in relation to the role of the theatre translator, by the undefined notion of ‘performability’, a concept which suggests that the linguistic choices of the translator can render the script inherently performable or …
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Picture-making through performance - experiments in visual dramaturgy
This dissertation attempts to draw parallels between my process as a graphic artist and my process as a theatre-maker. The study has been prompted by my discovery of theatre-practitioners whose graphic art practices preceded and suffused their subsequent performance works and my desire to trace the …
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The Dramaturgy of Evocation: A visual dramaturgical framework
This disserta:on sets out to comprehend the complicated processes at work 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 …
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Negotiated dramaturgy - industrial theatre as communication in the organisation
… main constituent, it was necessary to create a dramaturgy that incorporates negotiation into all its facets in order to serve the purposes of the thesis. The Negotiated Dramaturgy thus created has three distinct parts. The first consists of the pre-production forums in which the stakeholders …
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The dramaturgy of music: its impact on my composition
… approach to musical composition using music dramaturgy as its main source of inspiration and expression, contextualising the compositions within other pieces in the field and also within my own production. The pieces were selected following recommendations and regulations from the Graduate …
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O Kae? An Autoethnographic Dramaturgy Through A Deliberate Incommensurability
This study focuses on the erasure of the black woman from the mainstream theatre space of South Africa as a provocation towards the creation of a dramaturgical process that pivots around the notion of 'deliberate incommensurability' as a catalyst for exploration. 'deliberate incommensurability' is …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… as well as Mark Fleishman's (2015) notion of a dramaturgy of displacement where movement and migration form a core part of both the form and content of the work.
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Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
… I develop a methodology of infrastructural dramaturgy; an approach that mobilizes the analytical potential of dramaturgy and critical infrastructure studies to emphasize infrastructural elements by attending to the context and composition of a performance. Using the lens of infrastructural …
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Space Dramaturgy: Exploring the perfomativity of space in interactive art
This thesis proposes the reframing of dramaturgy into interactive art with a focus on spatial relationships rather than textual. The thesis original contribution to knowledge is the creation of a new type of dramaturgy – space dramaturgy – as an artistic methodology that examines the performativity …
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Mediating for Immediacy: Text, Performance, and Dramaturgy in Multimedia Shakespeare Editions
… their role from a focus on text to include dramaturgy, pedagogy, and digital design. While these projects do make Shakespeare’s works accessible in new ways, they also reinforce existing narratives, in particular the tendency to regard Shakespeare’s text as dense and alienating while viewing …
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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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The Electroacoustic and its Double: Duality and Dramaturgy in Live Performance
Live electroacoustic performance juxtaposes and superimposes two main elements: the real, present and physical, against the simulated and disembodied. In this sense, it is a liminal form which negotiates two different worlds on stage. In this dissertation I will address some central aspects of …
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Toroidal Dance: A Yogic Perspective of Choreography, Transdisciplinarity, and Dance Dramaturgy
… nature), toroidal pattern, healing, dance dramaturgy (as subtle communication), multidimensionality, and wholeness. Through this toroidal structure I have engaged with concepts from multiple areas of knowledge such as yogic philosophy, somatics, physics, mathematics, geometry, neuroscience, …
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Ödön von Horváth’s Volksstücke. Sounds and silences in dramaturgy and theatrical performance
This thesis investigates the dramaturgical art of Ödön von Horváth, currently one of the most staged German playwrights, focusing on the cycle of five plays known as the Volksstücke (Revolte auf Côte 3018, Die Bergbahn, Italienische Nacht, Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald and Kasimir und Karoline). …
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The Role of Dramaturgy in Change Management in Shell Oman Marketing Company
Inspired by my personal interest in the topic of dramaturgy, coupled with the continuous change programmes that Shell Oman Marketing Company (SOMC) adopts in many areas, this research attempts to explore the role of dramaturgy (Goffman 1956) in change management in SOMC. The primary question that …
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Dramaturgy: Kurt Well's 'Street Scene': An American Opera and the American Immigrant's Experience
<p>This paper is a reflection of the dramaturgical thesis project performed at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. The Theatre Department's production of Kurt Well's <em>Street Scene</em> was a platform of the project. In this paper, I explore the dramaturgical process and the connection of the …
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"Considering ""In Heinrich's Shoes"" by Edwin London: *Recomposition as an Experiment in Dramaturgy"
London's technical explorations serve a dramatic exploration: In Heinrich's Shoes attempts to mirror the emotional and dramatic journey found in the source composition. The challenge of this task is clear when one realizes that Schutz's Passion is propelled by its text, while London's new work has …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
<p>Conversations around women and comedy are few, and tend to swirl around the tired question of whether or not women are funny. Conclusions usually range from, "They're not" to a few token funny women whose exceptional wit proves the rule that, in fact, women are not funny. Or, if women are funny, …
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