Theatre and the Threshold of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and the Threshold of Death write by Kathleen Gough. This book was released on 2024-01-25. Theatre and the Threshold of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a pioneer in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist, and mystic, whom Albert Camus called the only great spirit of our time; Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), the grandmother of performance art; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first known (and belatedly acknowledged) abstract painter. Each time Gough crosses a threshold into their world, she is compelled to attend courses, seminars and workshops that are simultaneously about dying and healing. Curious to learn more about the relationships between art practice, dying, and healing, Gough imagines the five artists as wisdom teachers in a mystery school. In a series of eight lectures, she turns to performance theory to provide a framework for engaging with the unknown world. In Theatre and the Threshold of Death, Gough makes a persuasive argument for the world-making power of relational thinking in our increasingly polarized age.
The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis
The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis write by Mischa Twitchin. This book was released on 2016-10-20. The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might “the theatre of death” and “the uncanny in mimesis” allow us to conceive of the afterlife of a supposedly ephemeral art practice? How might a theatrical iconology engage with such fundamental social relations as those between the living and the dead? Distinct from the dominant expectation that actors should appear life-like onstage, why is it that some theatre artists – from Craig to Castellucci – have conceived of the actor in the image of the dead? Furthermore, how might an iconology of the actor allow us to imagine the afterlife of an apparently ephemeral art practice? This book explores such questions through the implications of the twofold analogy proposed in its very title: as theatre is to the uncanny, so death is to mimesis; and as theatre is to mimesis, so death is to the uncanny. Walter Benjamin once observed that: “The point at issue in the theatre today can be more accurately defined in relation to the stage than to the play. It concerns the filling-in of the orchestra pit. The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living...” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?
Theatre and the Threshold of Death
Theatre and the Threshold of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and the Threshold of Death write by Kathleen Gough. This book was released on 2024-01-25. Theatre and the Threshold of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eight lectures turn the medium of theatre inside out to explore how the tools of theatre and performance studies can be redirected to reflect upon and build transformative life practices.
Theatre and Death
Theatre and Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Death write by Mark Robson. This book was released on 2019-05-25. Theatre and Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the position that all humans need to 'live' with the reality of death, Mark Robson draws on a range of examples, from Greek theatre to contemporary practitioners, in order to testify to the potency of both theatre and death in contemporary culture. Striking and thought-provoking, this book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre and performance, or English literature students with an interest in tragedy.
Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination
Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination write by Bernd Huppauf. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.
