Slowiak / Cuesta Jerzy Grotowski

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-17477-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Performance Practitioners

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slowiak, James

Cuesta, Jairo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT

Grotowski’s formative years

Theatre of Productions (1959–69)

Theatre of Participation/Paratheatre (1969–78)

Theatre of Sources (1976–82)

Objective Drama (1983–6)

Ritual Arts or Art as Vehicle (1986–99)



2. GROTOWSKI’S KEY WRITINGS

"Towards a PoorTheatre" (1965)

"Skara Speech" (1966)

"Holiday" [Swieto] "The day that is holy" (1970, 1971, 1972)

"Theatre of Sources" (1997) 73 "Tu es le fils de quelqu’un (You are someone’s son)" (1989)

"Performer" (1988)

Summary



3. GROTOWSKI AS DIRECTOR

Grotowski in rehearsal

Grotowski and the actor

Analysis of a key production: Akropolis

Description of key scenes from Akropolis

Paratheatre events

Action: the final opus

PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Preparations

The actor’s body

The actor’s presence: to see

Untaming

Precision

Coordination and rhythm

The actor’s voice: to listen

The actor’s score: to do

The actor’s partner: to meet

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

James Slowiak is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Akron, USA and co-artistic director of New World Performance Laboratory. He assisted Jerzy Grotowski in the Objective Drama Program at the University of California-Irvine and in Italy from 1983–1989.

Jairo Cuesta is co-artistic director of New World Performance Laboratory. He collaborated with Jerzy Grotowski on Theatre of Sources and the Objective Drama Program from 1976–1986.