Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work

Foreign Bodies of Knowledge
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-98887-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, this book redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent intercultural actors, this study draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and Roberta Carreri (Odin Teatret). By illuminating the hidden creative processes usually unavailable to outsiders--the actor’s apprenticeship, training, character development, and rehearsals--Nascimento both reveals how assumptions based on race or ethnicity are misguiding, trouble definitions of intra- and intercultural practices, and details how performance analyses and claims of appropriation fail to consider the permanent transformation of the actor’s identity that cultural transmission and embodiment represent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nascimento, Claudia Tatinge

Nascimento, Cláudia Tatinge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. 1. The Cultural Temperature of the Twentieth Century. 2. Race, Culture, and the Myth of the Authentic. 3. Tenuous Boundaries: Intra- and Intercultural Embodiments. 4. Peep Show: The Hidden Lives of the Intercultural Actor. 5. Fictive Realities: Character and the Eye of the Beholder. Afterword: A Theatre of Instabilities. Appendix A: Forgotten Memories in Action: An Interview with Ang Gey Pin. Appendix B: Playing the Invisible: An Interview with Roberta Carreri. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar from Rio de Janeiro, with a particular interest in experimental performance. Her articles appear internationally in journals such as A[l]berto and Folhetim (Brazil), Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy), Didaskalia (Poland), Studia Dramatica (Romania), and TDR and Theatre Research International (United States). A professor and chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Macalester College, she is also the author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation (Routledge, 2019).