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Afrikinesis

Author : Ofosuwa M Abiola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100380277X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Afrikinesis written by Ofosuwa M Abiola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements. This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on Africana dance. It exposes the value of utilizing an appropriate research paradigm that offers researchers a broader perspective and a transparent, unfettered process for analysis in under-researched topics such as African and African diaspora dance styles. Researchers are introduced to the African dance aesthetic, characteristically African body movements, definitions of steps, understandings within African culture, and a host of other jewels that facilitate a deeper grasp on the subject and refine the quality of the scholar’s research, its findings, and its proficiency. This book will be of great interest to scholars of African dance studies.

Afrikinesis

Author : Ofosuwa M. Abiola
Publisher : Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781032611952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Afrikinesis written by Ofosuwa M. Abiola and published by Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements. This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on Africana dance. It exposes the value of utilizing an appropriate research paradigm that offers researchers a broader perspective and a transparent, unfettered process for analysis in under-researched topics such as African and African diaspora dance styles. Researchers are introduced to the African dance aesthetic, characteristically African body movements, definitions of steps, understandings within African culture, and a host of other jewels that facilitate a deeper grasp on the subject and refine the quality of the scholar's research, its findings, and its proficiency. This book will be of great interest to scholars of African dance studies.

Genre Transgressions

Author : Ramona Mosse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003812775
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Genre Transgressions written by Ramona Mosse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, and cultural studies come together to engage in dialogues that reconfigure genre as social, communal, and affective. In revisiting the challenges to aesthetic categorization over the course of the 20th century, this volume proposes a shift away from the prescriptive and hierarchical reading of genre to its crucial function in shaping thought and enabling shared experience and communication. In doing so, the various essays acknowledge the diverse contexts within which genre needs to be thought afresh: media studies, rhetoric, politics, performance, and philosophy.

An Actor Survives

Author : Tomasz Kubikowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003822568
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book An Actor Survives written by Tomasz Kubikowski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor’s Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky. This volume is the only part of his planned major work on theatre art that he was able to finish and authorise before his death. Its highly edited variant has long been known as ‘An Actor Prepares’ in the English-speaking world. Tomasz Kubikowski explores Stanislavsky’s material not only as a handbook of acting but also as a philosophical testament of Stanislavsky, in which he attempts to contain his most essential experiences and reflections. This book explores the underlying theme of ‘survival’ in its various meanings, from professional to existential; and the mechanisms and actions we attempt to survive. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

Of Kings and Clowns

Author : Tiran Manucharyan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003855113
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Of Kings and Clowns written by Tiran Manucharyan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967. Through detailed analyses of the plays, the book investigates the ways Egyptian theatre represents, formulates, and imagines political and cultural leadership and, by implication, enacts its own leadership. Alongside the work of established playwrights, such as Yusuf Idris, Abul-ʿEla El-Salamouny, Fathia El-ʿAssal and Lenin El-Ramly, it also discusses the input in theatre of a younger generation, reflecting the new transformations in Egyptian theatre following the 2011 revolution. Relating the theoretical underpinnings of its analyses to theoretical discussions by Egyptian playwrights, the book contributes to current English-language scholarship in theatre studies, by providing a discourse largely absent from it. Considering the growing sense in English-language academia on the need for research and education beyond the Western canon this book offers an important addition to the study resources. This book will interest both scholars and students who study the Arab world, and researchers and students with an interest in cultural studies, more specifically twentieth- and twenty-first-century theatre, and literature studies. The book’s specific focus on political theatre and its gender perspective make it also of interest to the fields of political and gender studies.

Burning Man

Author : Linda Noveroske-Tritten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100384717X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Burning Man written by Linda Noveroske-Tritten and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centres on a philosophical analysis of creative acts in the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change. With particular focus on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, Linda Noveroske posits a re-interpretation of common notions of “self” and “other” as they apply to identity, difference, and the ways that these personal impulses ripple outward from changing individuals into changing societies. Such radical re-imagination of ideology can be most powerful when it occurs in spaces of otherness, of heterotopia. This study casts Burning Man as a heterotopia to not only destabilizes what we think we know about visual art, performance, and creative encounters, but also bring these acts into an attitude of immediacy that facilitates previously unimagined behaviour and opens out artistic drive into the unknown. This book would be of value for scholars and practitioners in Performance Studies, Theatre and Dance, Art History, Psychology, Phenomenology, Architecture and Urban Studies.

Screened Stages

Author : Rachel Joseph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003855105
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Screened Stages written by Rachel Joseph and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages. A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically severed the entwined relationship between film and theatre. The book makes the argument that cinema longs for theatre after that separation. The histories of stage and screen persistently crisscross one another making their separation problematic. The screened stage from the end of the nineteenth century until now offers a miniaturized version of cinema and theatre history. Moments of the stage within the screen compress historical styles and movements into saturated representations on film. Such examples overflow the cinematic screen into singular manifestations of presentness. Screened stages uncover what it means to be simultaneously present and absent. This book would be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, film, dance, and performance.

Black Women Centre Stage

Author : Paola Prieto López
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003824927
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Centre Stage written by Paola Prieto López and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity, it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond creatively to the violence and marginalisation of Black communities, especially Black women. This study demonstrates that theatre can act as a productive space for the ethical encounter with the Other (understood in terms of alterity, as someone different from the self) by examining the possibilities of these plays to activate the spectators’ responsibility and solidarity towards different types of violence experienced by Black women, offering alternative modes of relationality. The book engages with a range of contemporary works written by Black women playwrights in the UK, including Mojisola Adebayo, Theresa Ikoko, Diana Nneka Atuona, Gloria Williams, Charlene James, or Yusra Warsama, bringing to the fore a gendered and intersectional approach to the analysis of the texts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in contemporary theatre, gender studies and diaspora studies.

Gut Knowledges

Author : Kristin Hunt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000985830
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Gut Knowledges written by Kristin Hunt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era’s destabilization of shared notions of truth. This inquiry emerges in response to an urgent need to understand how multisensory models of knowledge, truth, and justice can be ethically employed to nurture a more just society. Alongside this goal is a drive to understand the ways in which these modes of performance are being co-opted by authoritarians, white supremacists, anti-science activists, and others to shore up injustice, promote misinformation, and anxiously guard existing systems of power and privilege. From white supremacist milk-drinking performances to liberatory uses of culinary performance as pedagogy, Kristin Hunt analyzes both disturbing and inspiring alimentary events to understand how performers, cooks, scholars, artists, and activists can effectively cultivate models of alimentary performance that center plenitude, joy, and justice while pushing back against models rooted in anxiety, diminishment, and cruelty. The text should be of interest for students in performance studies, contemporary theatre, and theatre history as well as courses in food studies and popular culture.

Meaning in the Midst of Performance

Author : Gareth White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429632460
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Meaning in the Midst of Performance written by Gareth White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situation of being both actor and spectator, of being part of the work of art while also being the audience who receives it, and of being both perceiving subject and aesthetic object. This book examines these contradictions – and many others – as they appear by accident and by design in increasingly popular forms of interactive, immersive, and participatory performance in theatre and live art. Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth White sharply examines meaning as a process that happens to us as we are engaged in the problems and negotiations of a participatory performance. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students of theatre and performance, intermedial arts and games studies, and to practising artists.

Performance

Author : Hanna B Hölling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000927881
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Performance written by Hanna B Hölling and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the larger theoretical debates about whether and how performance remains. Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care (vol. 1) brings this new understanding to bear in examining performance as an object of study, experience, acquisition, and care. In so doing, it presents both theoretical frameworks and functional paradigms for thinking about—and enacting—the conservation of performance. Further, while the conservation of performance is undertheorized, performance is nevertheless increasingly entering the art market and the museum, meaning that there is an urgent need for discourse on how to care for these works long-term. In recent years, a few pioneering conservators, curators, and scholars have begun to create frameworks for the longterm care of performance. This volume presents, explicates, and contextualizes their work so that a larger discourse can commence. It will thus serve the needs of conservation students and professors, for whom literature on this subject is sorely needed. This interdisciplinary book thus implements a novel rethinking of performance that will challenge and revitalize its conception in many fields, such as art history, theater, performance studies, heritage studies, and anthropology.

Performance Art in Portugal

Author : Cláudia Madeira
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003813577
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Performance Art in Portugal written by Cláudia Madeira and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. This study explores the history of Portuguese performance art, in its various "speculative" and "performative" forms. The author approaches this relationship with the re-emergence and centrality of these (semi-)peripheral histories at an international level, whilst identifying some of their unique traits: their cycles of emergence and retraction in Portuguese history; their multiple and complex ontologies; the intertwined relations between the art of performance and the social performance of the Portuguese (regarding topics as sensitive and fracturing as those of the long dictatorship, the colonial war and the revolutionary process, or even the integration of Portugal in the European Community and, more recently, the various 21st century social, political and economic crises). This reading in turn covers the development of the relationship between performance and hybridism, namely, analyzing the recent dimension of meta-hybridism, in the processes of artistic homage that contemporary Portuguese creators have been establishing through access to the histories and archives of this historical genre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, performance art and arts in general.

History Dances

Author : Ofosuwa M. Abiola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429767846
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book History Dances written by Ofosuwa M. Abiola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of history is founded on the interrogation of written documents from the past. However, culture is the center of life in Africa. As a result, in the past – and to a degree in the present – the process for documenting events in Africa was not written, it was performed. History Dances: Chronicling the History of Traditional Mandinka Dance argues that a wealth of information is housed within traditional Mandinka dance and, consequently, the dances can be used as an African-derived primary source for writing African history. Ofosuwa M. Abiola highlights the overall value of studying Mandinka dance history specifically, and African dance history generally, as well as addressing the issue of scarcity with regard to primary sources for writing African history. History Dances proves to be a vital read for both undergraduate students and scholars in the fields of dance history, African history, performance studies, and cultural anthropology.

Dooplé : the Eternal Law of African Dance

Author : Alphonse Tiérou
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 3718653060
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Dooplé : the Eternal Law of African Dance written by Alphonse Tiérou and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African dancer requires complete technical mastery and must respect the precise rules handed down by the society of the Masques de Sagesse. Alphonse Tirou is from the Ouenon people of the Ivory Coast. His major study is the first written record of this oral tradition and it explains the movements, codes and meanings of the traditional African dance. It is extremely valuable reading for all those studying or interested in Africa, as dance is such an essential part of this continent's cultural heritage.A former student of the National Institute of Arts at Abidjan, Alphonse Tirou has been a senior dignitary in the Kman of the Masques de Sagesse for over twenty years. He is currently teaching at the Bloa Nam (Movements) dance school in Nmes, which he founded in 1979 and which is still the only school worldwide to research African dance.

Historical Perspectives on Dance in Africa

Author : Ofosuwa M Abiola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733357104
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Historical Perspectives on Dance in Africa written by Ofosuwa M Abiola and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embedded within the dances of Africa are repositories of historical narratives, invaluable insights on the mindset of ancient and contemporary peoples, and revelations andbudding hints of developing cultural phenomena. Such information greatly contributes to and facilitates deeper understanding of undeciphered African artifacts. It informs diverse disciplines, including African history, African studies, world history, archaeology, cultural studies, performance studies, and dance history, among other fields. Uncovering previously unknown artifacts is futile if their meaning continues to be a mystery. Historical Perspectives on Dance in Africa introduces students, scholars, and the general public to previously under-researched African dances and their meanings, and the cultural history that gave birth to them.

Fire Under My Feet

Author : Ofosuwa M. Abiola
Publisher : Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
ISBN 13 : 9780367713331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Fire Under My Feet written by Ofosuwa M. Abiola and published by Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Invisible avalanches and ripple effects / Ofosuwa Abiola -- The gaze of power, rebel bodies and the specter of savagery : African and African descents' dances in the narrative eye of the beholders in Puerto Rico during the 19th and 20th centuries / Noel Allende Goitia -- Rooting across generations : establishing British Caribbean diasporic identity through dance / Tia-Monique Uzor -- Visualizing African diaspora dance through the African American dance company and visual art / Katie E. Dieter -- The ruses of memory in the cinematic choreographies of Delia Zapata Olivella : dancing to build gender in the public space / Juan Suárez Ontaneda -- Dance, rhythm, and ritual : Afro-Venezuelans in resistance / Mesi Walton -- Dancing African-ness : the transnational identity of Siddi Dammal / Anuran Dasgupta -- Dance : a catalyst for spiritual transcendence / Tamara Williams.

Sonic Warfare

Author : Steve Goodman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262517957
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Warfare written by Steve Goodman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe. Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard—the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths.