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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters...
Fiction and Truth in Transition
What can fiction tell us about the world that journalism and science cannot? This simple yet vast question is the starting-point for an interrogation of the relationship between literary fiction and society's dramatic transformation in South Africa and Argentina over the past several decades. The resulting discursive text borders on both journalism and literature, incorporating reportage, essay, and memoir. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology - Vol. 34)
Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change
This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides grounded insights on these issues from a broad range of proficient academics and experienced practitioners. Overall, the different contributions address four key themes: a critical evaluation of different ethnographic approaches in researching communication for/and social change; a critical appraisal of visual methodologies and theatre for development research; a methodological appraisal of different...
Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions
In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives—a stream-of-consciousness understanding of “writing the city” of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, among others—to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.
Skønhedens hotel
Det danske performanceteater Hotel Pro Forma har siden grundlæggelsen i 1985 dyrket samspillet mellem arkitektur, musik, bevægelse og ord ud fra billedkunstneriske principper og har med sit markante æstetiske formsprog fået en fremtrædende plads i det danske og internationale teaterlandskab. Hotel Pro Forma er især kendt for at eksperimentere med avanceret lyssætning og anden moderne teknologi i iscenesættelsen. I hele Hotel Pro Formas levetid har Kirsten Dehlholm været kunstnerisk leder for teatret, der fungerer som atelier, laboratorium og produktionsselskab. Det har gennem 30 år konstant afsøgt nye veje i spændingsfeltet mellem performance, billedkunst, installation og opera. Skønhedens Hotel belyser en række forestillinger, der udvider forståelsen af begrebet scenekunst. 17 forskere går i denne bog tæt på værkernes kunstneriske virkemidler og de kunstneriske processer og fokuserer på relationerne mellem teori og praksis. Det hele hænger sammen i en Hotel Pro Forma-forestilling, men ikke altid, som vi forventer.
The Actor's Way
Can 'stage presence' be acquired? Why do some actors appear more dynamic in performance than others? In The Actors Way four experienced actors talk about the secrets and the practical realities of over twenty-five years of theatre training with Odin Teatret. Under the unique direction of Eugenio Barba, director of Odin Teatret, they have explored issues such as the connections between physical and mental work on stage, how to gain and control the spectator's attention, and intercultural performance techniques. The Actor's Way is a fascinating account of personal and professional development in the theatre. It will be vital reading for drama students and actors, but enjoyable and illuminating for anyone interested in the craft of acting.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975
The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.
Odin Teatret
Odin Teatret blev opfattet som udansk og fremmedartet, da italienske Eugenio Barba og fem unge skuespillere i 1966 indvandrede til Holstebro. Lige siden har teatrets arbejde med "erobring af anderledeshed" været en stærk inspiration for både den danske og den internationale teaterverden - ligesom teatret gennem årene udviklede et frodigt samspil med sin hjemby. En kreds af danske kunstnere og kulturforskere fortæller her om deres personlige møde og faglige udvekslinger med Odin Teatret, i forløb der ofte spænder over 30-40 år. Samtidig giver teksterne indblik i, hvordan teaterlaboratoriet arbejder med kunstneriske, kulturelle og politiske forandringer. Bogen belyser det ellers inter...
Focus On Festivals
A powerful and unique case-study focused, theoretically rigorous and pan-European approach of our most ubiquitous cultural phenomena - festivals. Edited by a hugely expert and experienced team of editors and authors drawn from across Europe and is based on the groundbreaking work of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP).
Odin Teatret 2000
The Odin Teatret was founded in 1964 in Norway and for 34 years has been based in Holstebro, Denmark, away from the capital and the centre for theatre. It also tours in other countries. What makes this theatre special in comparison to others, is that "it comprehends theatre as a specific social and spatial reality, often expressed through the metaphor of a monastery, ghetto or exile". The theatre laboratory has many other activities than the mere creation of theatre performances; it also conducts seminars, conferences and meetings with theatre people from around the world. It has published a series of books and magazines about theatre technique and theory and produced films and videos.
