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theatre studies
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focuses on plays, theatre and is concerned with what plays mean in their historical context. how plays reflect and shape culture
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performance studies
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interdisciplinary. studies theatre and anthropology. interested in how culture performs themselves. uses social sciences, feminists, ethical studies.
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how does Schechner describe performance studies?
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"twice behaved behavior"
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how does carlson describe performance studies
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"all behavior carried out with a consciousness of itself"
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how does bkg describe performance studies
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"to do...to behave...to show"
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schener's performance process
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protoperformance, performance, aftermath
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protoperformance
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the source or impulse that gives rise to a performance
training, workshop, rehearsal |
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performance
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whatever takes place between a marked end and a marked beginning
warmup, public performance, events/context sustaining the public performance, cooldown |
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aftermath
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phase of the performance that may extend for years
critical responses, archives, memories |
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protests as performances: world naked bike ride
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draw attention to other modes of transportation, trained to be nonchalant
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community based theater
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staging readymade theatre, part in creation of work. communities share their stories through theatre. sometimes called grassroots
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four principles of cohen cruz on community based theatre
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1. communal context
2. reciprocity 3. hyphenation (straddle sense of performance and sociological work) 4. active culture (thinking of communities with interesting info) |
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what's special about the vancouver interactive play?
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it is a form of community based theatre where the audience can interrupt the play and direct a new outcome
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who was the father of chicano theatre?
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luis valdez, who wrote los vendidos
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chicano
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term that refers to neither mexican nor american, someone that can't identify with the hardships of either
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united farm workers of america, who involved and what did they do?
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luis valdez and cesar chavez were leaders, went on 5 year strike for better wages and working conditions
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chicano's view of mexican americans, vice versa
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chicanos thought that mexican americans were sellouts and chicanos were viewed as trouble makers
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la high school walkouts
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didn't really have much of an effect, during the late 60s
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corky gonzales
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a chicano activist that looked at land and gave it back to those who had been shafted
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Harry Gamboa and Sal Castro
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assisted in east los angeles walkouts
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crystal city high school walkouts, why did they have it and what resulted?
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cheerleaders didn't let chicanos on the squad, resulted in the first successful walkout and they were allowed to be on the team
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el teatro campesino
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educated public on plight of workers
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farmworker's theatre
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one act plays without a stage or script. educates and informs workers on political issues
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national chicano theatre movement
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theatres pop up in colleges, EVERYWHERE. address the issue of stereotypes
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mexican tradition of theatre
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utilize music, song and physical comedy
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new american audience
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cross section of the country, to protect against narrowmindness
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historical challenges in women were due to
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their lack of access, their historical erasure, the dominance of the male perspective
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the male gaze
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film positions camera from male desiring women perspective
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liberal feminism
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refers to the equality between men and women, works within a system and emphasizes achievement. remember hillary clinton
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glass ceiling
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there's only so far women can advance
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theatre of liberal feminism, key figure
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realism, wendy wasserstein
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cultural feminism and examples
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shows how men and women are different.
ex. men are from mars, women are from venus and trifles |
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materialist feminism
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all women are not equal and the differences of race, class, etc. still exist between them. oppressive to everyone including men
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sex vs. gender vs. orientation
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sex is biological
gender is behavior orientation is who you're attracted to |
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gender as performance examples
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brad paisley "i'm just a guy"
ellen degeneres and jessica alba |
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feminist theatre companies
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use cultural and materialist feminism, process and product oriented, lack of money, available resources. used bretchian techniques (always knew you were watching a performance)
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wow cafe
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women's one world theatre company. began as a festival in 1980 and is a festival of performance space. just have to show up and identify as a woman
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gay and lesbian theatre
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playwrights use deviant or latent sexual acts to drive plot
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1950s HUAC
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gays and lesbians linked to communism because they had to mask their identity. began coding language
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stonewall riots
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1969. gay men at a bar resisted arrest, became iconic for them
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mainstream gay and lesbian theatre involved...
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coming out narratives, realism, usually whiteness
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out aesthetic
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made up of an audience for gays and lesbians, seen as poor theatre. had solo performance with holly hughes, tim miller.
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what is solo performance?
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a flexible art form of someone performing alone
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what is the oldest form of performance?
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solo performance
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broken fourth wall
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when the performer interacts with the audience, makes them a part of the performance
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3 types of solo performance
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1. biographical
2. autobiographical 3. ethnographic |
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spoken word, example of group
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typically poetry, monologue, lyrics, etc. beat generation of the 1950s
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narrative truth
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everything left out in the biography or autobiography
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poetry slam, first one, what they involve, example
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1984, can be competitive and invitational or open. def poetry jam on hbo with dave chappell and alicia keys. started by russell simmons, won a tony
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documentary theater
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based on a theme, event or issue that uses interviews or news reports. sense of drama created through the juxtaposition of the interviews
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erwin piscator: in spite of everything!
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first documentary about the rise of communism in germany in 1925
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everyday life performance
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smith mimics everything they do in real life, word for word
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twilight
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documentary about riots after the rodney king verdict, acted by anna deavarre smith
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modernism
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opposed to realism, represent reality or universal truth. don't imitate reality
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futurism
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past is a barrier to progress, burn all museums! war is progress, associated with fascism
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futuristic forms
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saw the audience as participatory, had no character development, just showed the events
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Bruitisme
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noise music, everyday things like feet tapping, train going by, etc.
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manifesto
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voice embedded, speed, beauty in struggle, lots of aggression
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dada and example
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switzerland; replaced logic and reason with madness, chaotic, rejects harmony and unity
example: poems with no words, 5 random words being a poem |
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expressionism
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focus on rediscovering human spirit, counters materialism and industrialism, hope to achieve the 'regeneration of man' had more emphasis on text
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merece cunningham
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dancer that thought ballet was too limited, influenced by nature. didn't think movement was representational but has meaning
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john cage
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cunningham's musician, collaborator
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black mountain college
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private NC college that was the laboratory for chance composition
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cunningham's thoughts on movement
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movement is movement, there's no meaning behind it
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4 events that led to cunningham's thoughts on movement
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1. john cage discovered music and dance could be separate
2. discovery of chance: surprise 3. working with video and film 4. working with light bulb software |
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collaborative process of cunningham
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the artists all worked separately then all came together the night before the performance.
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beach birds for camera
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movement looks like birds, not fluid. standing on one leg, stutter step and waddle.
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zen buddhism
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inspired by john cage and cunningham. thing is just a thing. direct action, it's not about the idea but the doing. discipline leads to freedom
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what is butoh influenced from?
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german expressionism, modern and japanese dance
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Ankoku Butoh
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dance of the dark soul
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costumes and movement of butoh
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costumes: full white body paint, almost completely nude, shaved heads, emphasis on grotesque
movement: no set technique, often slow or no motion. |
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tatsumi hijakata
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founder of butoh. 1959. would walk around with chicken between his legs
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kazuo ono
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one of hijakata's early collaborators
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Sankai Juku
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first group to tour internationally, founded in the 1970s
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taiko
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japanese word for drum, drum performance with dance involved and japanese costumes
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Oedo Sukeroku Daiko
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tokyo based taiko group. made festival accompaniment to it's own art form
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taiko in us
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two groups in los angeles: San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Kinnara Taiko
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fires in the mirror
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black boy was run over by the jewish guy started riots in crown heights, brooklyn. ethnographic performance
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