Theory for Theatre Studies: Movement

Rachel Fensham, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781350026360
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350026384
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Dance

How do we define movement in performance? Who or what is being moved and how? And which movements are felt, observed, or studied, in theatre?

Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which introduces core theoretical concepts that underpin the discipline, Movement provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as vitality, plasticity, gesture, effort and rhythm, it opens up the study of theatrical production, live art, and intercultural performance to socio-political conceptions of movement as both practice and concept. It covers movement training systems and considers how they have been utilized in key works of the 20th and 21st centuries. The final section traces the convergence of movement in theatre with other media and digital technologies.

A wide range of in-depth case studies helps to equip readers to explore new methodologies and approaches to movement as a performance concept. These include analysis of Satoshi Miyagi's production of Sophocles' Antigone (2017), Thomas Ostermeier's production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (2008), the Berliner Ensemble's Mother Courage (1949), The Constant Prince (1965) performed by Ryzsard Cieslak, and the National Theatre's production of War Horse (2007). The final section considers a suite of concepts that shape postdramatic and intermedial theatre from China, Germany-Bangladesh, Australia, the United States, and United Kingdom. The volume is supported by further online resources including video material, questions, and exercises.

INDEX

Abramović, Marina, The Artist Is Present here–here

accelerate, acceleration here, here, here, here, here

Aesychlus, The Oresteia here

affects, affective here–here, here, here, here, here, here

Afro-futurism here

amplification here, here

Andrew, Brook here

anima here, here, here, here

animal movement here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here

animation here, here, here, here, here–here, here

anti-theatrical prejudice here–here

Appadurai, Arjun here–here, here–here

The Cultural Dimensions of Modernity at Large here

Appia, Adolphe here

Aristotle here–here, here–here, here, here–here

De Anima here–here, here

The Physics here

The Poetics here, here, here–here

arrangement here, here, here–here, here

arrested, arresting here, here, here, here, here

Artaud, Antonin here, here–here, here

The Theatre and Its Double here

assemblage here, here, here, here, here–here

audience here–here

audiences, reception here, here, here, here, here, here, here

automaton here–here, here, here, here

avatar here, here

Barish, Jonas here

Barthes, Roland here

Bausch, Pina here, here–here

Beckett, Samuel here–here

Benjamin, Walter here

Bergman, Ingmar here

The Seventh Seal here–here

Bergson, Henri here–...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Series Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Movement: Introduction
• Section One: Movement as History
• Section Two: Movement Systems and Embodied Action
• Section Three: Movement in Contemporary Theatre
• Notes
• References
• Further Reading
• Index
• Imprint