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Contemporary Mise en Scène : Staging Theatre Today.

"We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pavis, Patrice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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  • Cover; Contemporary Mise en Scène; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of illustrations ; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Where did mise en scène come from? Origins and theory; The origins of mise en scène: historical landmarks ; Steps in the evolution of mise en scène; 2 On the frontiers ofmise en scène; The stage reading; Non-mise en scène; Improvised mise en scène; 3 The difference between mise en scène and performance; Mise en scène and performance: a shaky couple; The current state of the performance and mise en scène relationship; Four examples of cooperation
  • Conclusions: performance studies/theatre studies4 Tendencies in French scenography; The powers of stage illusion; Fantasy and the real; Crossing the image; The echoes of space; The migration of subspaces; The silence of space; Concluding remarks; 5 The mise en jeu of contemporary texts; Combat de nègre et de chiens; Papa doit manger; Le bonheur du vent; A tous ceux qui ...; Conclusions; 6 The intercultural trap: rituality and mise en scène in the video art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña ; Current context; Ritual?; Reverse anthropology?; A body with variable identities?
  • Mise en scène as the theatricalisation of rituals?7 Theatre in another culture: a Korean example; A season in heaven; Korean theatre seen from afar; 8 Media on the stage; Theatre and media; Technology/media; Other media in performance; Historical landmarks; Possibilities for video on stage; Effects of media on our perception; Suggestions for the analysis of media in mise en scène; Working hypotheses; Three examples; General conclusions ; 9 The deconstruction of postmodern mise en scène; Impossible erasure of the palimpsest; Deconstruction and the reconstruction of tradition
  • The undecidability of meaningCrisis of representation and chorality; In praise of the void and of slowness; The degraded ritual of repetition; To exit representation; Deconstructing representation; Conclusions: 'To have done with the judgement of god' (Artaud) and with deconstruction?; 10 Physical theatre and the dramaturgy of the actor; May B. by Maguy Marin: touched by the other; Itsi Bitsi: the dramaturgy of the actress; Les étourdis, La Cour des grands by Macha Makeïff and Jerôme Deschamps: the body in bits; From the body art of the past to the multiple identities of the present
  • Andromaque on the cutting edge: Michel Liard's art of looking and listeningLes ephémères du soleil: inventing collectively; 11 The splendour and the misery of interpreting the classics; The 'classical effect'; A tricky typology; The end of the radical, fascination with the present; New forms for old questions; A new relationship with tradition; Operating on the classics; A few signs of the times; General conclusions; 12 Staging calamity: mise en scène and performance at Avignon 2005; L'histoire des larmes; Je suis sang; Dieu et les esprits vivants; B.#03 Berlin; Anathème; Puur; Mue