Performing Ensemble

Practices, Theatre, and Social Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72055-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives

The book presents a novel analysis supporting the idea that a theatre ensemble is not just an entity but an emergent process. Through the lens of a theatre company's performative, creative, organizational, and activist practices, the ensemble is conceptualized in its collective becoming. This socio-historical and new materialist analysis of a European theatre company (ATIR) over thirty years highlights how a group's performative capacity to make-ensemble stimulates its organizational and social processes. With a commitment to participation, listening, and horizontality, the ensemble is shown to challenge the structures of capitalism, and fosters a vision of hope for societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pellegrinelli, Carmen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgement

Introduction: The Ensemble

1 Performing the Ensemble

2 Background and Proposal: Ensemble-Making as a Practice

3 Case: ATIR Theatre Company

4 Theoretical Framework: The Posthumanist Practice Theory

5 Methodology: Gathering Traces

6 The Book’s Organization

1 The School: The Community of Practice in the Theatre Environment

1 The Emerging Assemblage

2 The Characteristics of the “Bottega”

3 Acquiring the Performative Practices of Making Theatre

3.1 Undressing Personal Attitudes and Playing

3.2 Making Choir

3.3 Being Real on Stage

3.4 Searching for Intensity

4 Becoming a Group

4.1 Romeo and Juliet

4.2 The Creation of ATIR

2 The Rehearsals Room: The Performative and Creative Practices

1 Assemblage in the Making

2 Performative Practices

2.1 The Choir: Ensemble-Making in the Performance

2.2 The Scenography: Ensemble-Making with Vibrant Matter

2.3 The Plays: Ensemble-Making with Stories and Texts

2.3.1 The First Dramaturgical Stream: The Classics

2.3.2 The Second Dramaturgical Stream: Social Activism Plays

2.3.3 The Third Dramaturgical Stream: Contemporary Dramaturgy

3 Collective Creative Practices

3 The Theatre: Socio-Educational and Organizational Practices

1 Assemblage Becoming Territory

2 Educational and Community-Building Practices

2.1 Gli Spazi del Teatro. Ensemble-Making with Non-Conforming Subjectivities

2.2 Theatre Workshops: Ensemble-Making for Communities

2.3 Theatre Education, Ensemble-Making in Educational Theatre

2.4 The Piana: Ensemble-Making Larger than Life

3 Collective Organisational Practices

4 The Community: Resistance Practices

1 Assemblage as Resistance

2 Community-Oriented Practices towards the City: Ensemble-Making Being Nomadic

2.1 Odissea – Storia di un ritorno

2.2 El Nost Milan

3 Resistance Practices: Ensemble-Making in the ATIR’s Way

5 Conclusion

1 Ensemble Multiplicity

2 ATIR’s Performing Ensemble

3 About the Posthumanist Ensemble

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carmen Pellegrinelli is a post-doc at the University of Trieste (Italy) and a playwright and theatre director. She holds Master’s degrees in Theatre and Clinical Psychology from the universities of Bologna and Bergamo and a PhD (2023) from the University of Lapland, Faculty of Social Science. In addition to being an award-winning playwright and theatre director, she has published several articles and chapters on creative practices, social activism, and post-qualitative research methods. She is currently engaged in research concerning the intersection between arts, aesthetics of care, and posthumanist theory.