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Lord Of The Flies Rehearsal & Performance Schedule, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Lord of the Flies rehearsal & performance schedule

November 2018 - February 2019

Falling Media Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Falling media release

January 2018

Hamlet Media Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Hamlet media release

January 2018

Experiencing Stanislavsky In All's Well That Ends Well, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker

Department of English Publications

All's Well That Ends Well is a problem of a play, and its hero, Bertram, is a bigger problem yet. Actors have often worked to make sense of this oddity of a character using Stanislavskian techniques, specifically "emotional realism", in order to create a Bertram that is relatable and believable, even though he's actually a fiction from a fairy tale. In this chapter we examine this approach critically in order to understand how the Stanislavsky Solution to the Bertram Problem can have a knock-on effect for the representation of the play's female characters, creating obstacles to understanding for contemporary spectators, …

The Global Dance Network: Reykjaví­K, Iceland, Takes On New Moves, Emily Creek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research is an exploration of the contemporary dance community in Reykjaví­­k, Iceland. The research questions guiding this thesis were founded in a desire to understand how the dance community in Reykjaví­k creates its own agency and meaning within the city of Reykjaví­­k, as well as how the dance community in Reykjaví­k takes imported dance knowledge, localizes it and creates local meaning. With this goal of understanding the ways the community navigates the wider global dance network from its location as a northern island, I utilize concepts from the anthropology of globalization as well as dance anthropology. I specifically employ …

Las Hijas De Violencia: Performance, The Street, And Online Discourse, Madison M. Snider

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores street harassment as a contentious practice in the rhetorical spaces of the street and social media posting through a case study of the performance group Las Hijas de Violencia. Through anarchistic direct action resistance tactics, the group confronted harassers in the streets of Mexico City and their recordings launched global media interest which led to viral online sharing. Widespread sharing of their performance led to the creation of public discursive space, through comments sections, which was utilized to measure attitudes toward street harassment and feminist direct action protest. Contextualized in a growing call for an end to …

Ua68/17 What's Happening With Dance On The Hill, Wku Theatre & Dance

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Dance.

Guide To The Jeff Ginsberg Collection, Columbia College Chicago

Collection Guides / Finding Aids

This guide describes the organization and scope of the Jeff Ginsberg collection, housed within the College Archives & Special Collections at Columbia College Chicago. The collection holds production notebooks for plays he directed at Columbia College Chicago from 1992 to 2017 and in local theaters from 1990 to 2013. It also contains posters for several productions in which he directed or performed in Chicago, Illinois from 1986 to 2010.

Personal Agency And Community Empowerment: Moth Style Engagement, Judy Halebsky

Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

Narrative in Performance invites us to pay close attention to the aspects of performance that create a story. Considering text, Body, stage, technology and audience, this stimulating collection:

• Explores the significance of cultural identity, the role of popular culture, and the impact of revolutionary ideas for marginalized communities
• Draws on examples from a rich variety of historical and contemporary genres. from Asian dance drama to online video games
• Considers the future of performance in light of social media

College Of The Arts 18/19 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music

2018-2019

No abstract provided.

The Personal Is Political: Performing Saint Joan In The Twenty-First Century, Susan Frances Russell

Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Contemporary theater makers aiming to present feminist-inflected interpretation of Shaw's Saint Joan could benefit from the practice of intertextuality: examining feminist playwrights' versions of Joan's story. Two plays by contemporary writers, Carolyn Gage's The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Martha Kemper's Me, Miss Krause and Joan can illuminate the most pressing contemporary issues, highlighting the ways that Shaw's version overlaps with current feminist concerns, including intersectionality, positionality, and sexual assault. Such a process would empower performers and audience members alike, and would help playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs avoid some of the pitfalls exhibited in the recent rock musical …

Making Home: Directing Reintegration Plays, Katherine Alaina Skoretz

Wayne State University Dissertations

This doctoral study explores three American post-combat reintegration plays written and produced in 2010 and 2011 in the United States. Using script analysis and production research, the dissertation describes some of the major themes of reintegration and strengths of theatrical production as revealed by the critically alternative narratives in the scripts and performances of Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, American Soldiers by Matt Morillo, and Oohrah! by Bekah Brunstetter.

Art Infested Water, December 2017 - January 2018, Nova Southeastern University Department Of Performing And Visual Arts

Department of Performing and Visual Arts Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Dancing Through Curricula: Integrating Dance Into Elementary Classrooms, Kristi Duvall

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Elementary students spend most of their day sitting, learning in passive ways, resulting in a lack of physical activity and creativity. By utilizing dance education in the curricula, students are provided opportunities to be physically active and creative throughout the school day. When students are active and using their creative minds, they can learn and perform better on academic tasks. This second-grade curriculum provides students with more active movement throughout the school day, in addition to employing their creative abilities. The curriculum was created based on current research on the benefits of physical education and dance in the elementary classroom …

Cosmopolitan Then And Cosmopolitan Now: Rabindranrtiya Meets Dance Reality Shows, Pallabi Chakravorty

Dance Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

This Is How We Dance Now!: Performance In The Age Of Bollywood And Reality Shows, Pallabi Chakravorty

Dance Faculty Works

The cultural imagination of contemporary India is experiencing rapid change, especially among the middle classes. New communication technologies are being used to reach new audiences and spectators. This momentum of change has further facilitated blurring the strict boundaries between high and low, classical and folk, and Indian and Western cultural forms, creating multiple sites of amalgamation. One such ubiquitous form is the popular genre of dance reality shows on television. These Bollywood-inspired dance forms are arguably one among the most visible cultural products of India's new economy. Using multiple theoretical perspectives from Anthropology, Performance Studies, and Film and Media studies, …

Radical Black Drama-As-Theory: The Black Feminist Dramatic On The Protracted Event-Horizon, Jaye Austin Williams

Faculty Journal Articles

In this essay, I elaborate my present project, grounded in what I call drama theory, the critical theoretical dimensions of dramatic writing, and address the deeply troubling intramural tensions across Black Studies, between those who read blackness, and black cultural production, through largely futurist, celebratory lenses; and those who apply a structural analysis to blackness as the site against, upon, and through which the world coheres its soci(et)al apparatuses and machinations. I situate myself within the latter constellation, and sample here two plays by Suzan-Lori Parks to demonstrate how I translate the analyses of antiblack violence by black feminist …

Dadless: Dead Dads In Hamlet And The Effects On Their Children, Erin Diiorio

Student and Faculty Research Days

This research is a close look at the methods of grief as depicted by the children who lose their fathers in William Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet. The goal is to track each child’s reaction to the sudden bereavement in a variety of physical and emotional manifestations. This has been done by first examining current literature on the text, followed by a review of historical context of the period in which the play was written, and finally analyzing each character’s behavior. In doing so, this research seeks to highlight the importance of the presence of fathers within Hamlet and provide insight …

Theology, Phenomenology, And The Divine In King Lear, Kent R. Lehnhof

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In what follows, then, I would like to think through Levinas's ideas on transcendence and ethics in such a way as to map out a new pathway for approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy. As unorthodox as it may sound, I propose to shed light on the darkling religiosity of King Lear by turning-not to the theological doctrines of early modem Christians-but to the postmodern ethics of a twentieth-century Jew."

The Artist As Tragic Hero: The Creative Process Of Playwright, Director Michael Gurevitch, Bilha Birman Rivlin

Wayne State University Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The Artist as Tragic Hero:

The Creative Process

of Playwright, Director Michael Gurevitch

By

BILHA BIRMAN RIVLIN

August 2018

Chair: Dr. James Thomas

Co-Chair: Dr. David Magidson

Major: Theatre

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

“Know Thy Own Self and Be Moderate” is the saying carved on Apollo’s temple in Delphi. The Greeks believed that when we lose our inner knowing, we become alienated and delusional. In this dissertation, I explore the distinct creative process of the Israeli playwright and director Michael Gurevitch and his role in the Israeli theatre in the light of the tragic hero’s role as originated in …