Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice

29.11.2011

Englisch

9780230577794

Macmillan Education

Nein

Megan Alrutz

328

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MEGAN ALTRUZis Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA,where she teaches in the Drama and Theatre for Youth MFA program. As a theatre scholar, as well as a community-based teaching artist, her work focuses on Applied Theatre and Digital Media with/for young people, drama-based pedagogy, and the development of new work.

architecture, authenticity, body, Case Studies, cognitive science, corpus, dramaturgy, emotion, essay, history of theatre, landscapes, media, performance, play, theatre

ATD - Theaterwissenschaft

Introduction.- PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING THEORY AND PRACTICE.- Introduction to Part I.- The Function of Theory at the Present Time?; M.Fortier.- Approaching Theory: Scholar and Practitioner; M.Van de Water.- 'There is a World Elsewhere': The Endgame of Theory and Practice; M.Kobialka.- PART II: INTERROGATING THEORY IN THEATRE PRACTICE: PRODUCTIVE TENSIONS, QUESTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS.- Introduction to Part II .- Immediate Bodies: Media Theory and Theatre; S.Bay-Cheng.- Authenticity in Children's Theatre and Art; S.Etheridge Woodson.- Theatrical Nationalism and Subversive Affirmation; S.Wilmer.- Sensual Engagements: Understanding Theories of the Senses and their Potential Applications within Theatre Practice; S.DiBenedetto.- Active Dramaturgy: Using Research to Inspire Creative Thought; L.Inez Brown.- Intuition in Practice: Emotion and Feeling in the Artistic Process; H.Feiner.- Resisting Binaries: Theory and Acting; J.Lutterbie.- Moving Spectators Toward Progressive Politics by Combining Brechtian Theory with Cognitive Science; B.McConachie.- PART III: CASE STUDIES: ACTIVATING THEORY WITHIN AND THROUGH THE PRODUCTION PROCESS.- Introduction to Part III.- Theatre is Theory: A Case Study of Ghosting; H.Blau.- Cyrano's Intercultural Voyages in India; D.McManus.- (Re)presenting Silenced Voices: Negotiating Multiple Landscapes Through Body, Voice and Architecture; J.Listengarten & C.Niess.- Voice and the Venus: Opening up Voice and Speech with Post-Colonial Theories; L.Dougherty.- Theoretical Terrain and Performance Practice: An Actor's Journey into the Uncharted Territory of Landscape Theatre; B.Hanemann.- Under the Influence; A.Mello.- Modulating Theory: Breaking New Ground in Musical Theatre Study; J.Bell.- Tongues of Stone: making Space Speak...Again and Again; C.Brown & D.Hannah.- Seven Instructions: A Dialogue; M.Rohd & S.Scrofano.- Index.

216 mm

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