Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge - Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies (Paperback)

Claudia Tatinge Nascimento (author)

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Paperback 180 Pages
Published: 21/07/2010

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Synopsis

A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent intercultural actors, this study draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and Roberta Carreri (Odin Teatret). By illuminating the hidden creative processes usually unavailable to outsiders--the actor's apprenticeship, training, character development, and rehearsals--Nascimento both reveals how assumptions based on race or ethnicity are misguiding, trouble definitions of intra- and intercultural practices, and details how performance analyses and claims of appropriation fail to consider the permanent transformation of the actor's identity that cultural transmission and embodiment represent.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780415884006
Number of pages: 180
Weight: 330 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"...an excellent, concise contribution to the field...The book is a welcome addition to any cultural theatre curriculum or, for that matter, any advanced acting program." --Jim Williams, Winona State University, Theatre Journal

"Based on theoretical and practical data as well as on personal experience, the author presents a very coherent and readable book which may be of great interest both for experts and laypersons, for theatre scholars and scholars of cultural studies, literature and others." --Susan Mahmody, Theater Forschung

"This examination of intercultural performance is - in almost every respect - a very welcome addition to the field. It challenges its readers to rethink assumptions regarding artistic agency, collaboration, and theatrical border-crossing." -- Kathleen M. Gough, University of Glasgow, New Theatre Quarterly

"...an excellent, concise contribution to the field...The book is a welcome addition to any cultural theatre curriculum or, for that matter, any advanced acting program." --Jim Williams, Winona State University, Theatre Journal