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•Artistic branch of the black power movement
•developed in Harlem by Amiri Baraka
•Black Theatre Arts Repertory key institution |
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-creation of AA studies programs
-establishment of black owned publishing houses, magazines, etc
-triggered by assassination of Malcom X |
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civil rights movement
vs black power movement |
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CRM key figure: Martin Luther King Jr., non-violent protest
if you change the system, the people will change
BPM- Malcolm X, embrace blackness, any means necessary
system wont change so you must change the people first |
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| criticism in the black arts movement |
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polarized blacks- not all blacks supported the movement
black racism or "anti-white"
Despite this, BPM promoted self defense and self definition "black is beautiful" |
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Becomes an artistic articulation of black liberation (Archibald Motley Jr. painting of JFK and MLK Jr. as victims of these movements
POETRY is the most prominent form of BAM |
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Formerly Leroi Jones
writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism
-poetry as a literal weapon of action
"black is change, it must force change and it must be change"
-use "black english" for black community
-best known for black art poetry reading |
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| themes of black art poetry reading |
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poetry as a weapon
strong use of music
Jazz aesthetic(blend of different arts)
how is BPM reflected?
-politically engaged
NONE of BAM is without controversy but these movements enforce what we see in theatre. |
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| Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School [BARTS] |
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Amiri Baraka
established in 1965
took music, performance, art and poetry out of academy and into the streets
School of theory AND practice
talk about it AND do it. |
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black literary organization
split between artists and activists
couldnt align art and creativity with activists |
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BAM only lasted 10 years [65-75]
set the prescedent for utilizing art as activism in the black community |
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study of black diaspra (movement)
integrating comedy, dance, and cooking
multiplicities of black identity(celebration of culture and different variations of blackness) |
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"we can do it"
protesting, generally negative
>bra burning, man hating, hairy leg, lesbian |
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| Why are women afraid to align with feminism? |
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isolation
negative connotations
specific to one race (white)
association with lesbianism (homophobia)
hesitancy to be involved with politics at all
-especially radical |
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| educator, work focuses on intersection of races, class, gender oppression, |
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| Issues and concerns with feminism |
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-no agreement upon definiton of feminism
--social equality vs. radical approach?
-social reform is not the eradication of domination
-no solidarity
--"personal is political"- woman's everyday life experience is influenced by politics
AND politics is shaped by our different views
-Feminism with sugar and honey
--feminisms relationship to capitalism
--the female presence is in work force but system hasnt changed (pink collar jobs) |
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| Feminism according to Hooks |
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-"end of sexist oppression- sexism as prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination on the basis of sex
WOMEN CAN BE SEXIST |
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| feminism according to hooks: community movement |
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does not privilege woman over men
aware of variant prospectives on womanhood (not a cookie cutter mold)
-focus on advocacy
--i am a feminist vs. i asvocate feminism
Can men be feminist? YES. |
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| Terminology clarification of feminism |
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expectations of feminity v. feminism
Feminity= societal norm that attaches certain performative roles to the female body (Judith Butler- gender is performed)
Feminism- a movement to end sexual oppresion
-the constraints that we put folks under to :properly: perform feminity falls under the oppresion that feminism is fighting against |
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| First wave of feminism in the US (late 19th cent-early 20th century) |
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goals- humanness of a woman
----political and social mobility for women
accomplishments: women's suffrage |
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| Important figures in 1st wave of feminism |
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Ida B Wells- African American Journalist used investigative journalism to protest lynching, but also fought for women's rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony- partners, advocates of women's rights because they believed in temperance
they were abolitionists but did not like that black men were given more rights than them (more men to oppress them with) |
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| Drawbacks in 1st wave of feminism |
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| "true womanhood"-establishes women as proper, dutiful wives and mothers |
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| Second wave of feminism in the US |
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liberal vs. radical
liberal= women are equal to men (belief that women can work inside the system to change it and it was more associated with racist and homophobic rhetoric)
radical- women are not = to men and women are not ideal women
(against the one idea of woman promoted (middle/upper class white)
patriarchal and capitalist systems require working around the system |
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| Important figures in 2nd wave of feminism |
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bell hooks
betty friedan- "The feminine Mystique" (problem that has no name), unhappy housewives because they are constricted to the one woman mold.
Angela Davis- black feminist, political activist, scholar, writer, radical
arrested and put in jail for purchasing weapons which were used without her consent to murder |
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| Accomplishments in 2nd wave of feminism |
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NOW (national organization of women)
A LOT of legal action
-incluided on affirmative action
-Roe V Wade
-Title 9...etc
changed attitudes toward gender roles
dismantled "boys clubs"
let women into workforce |
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| Drawbacks in 2nd wave of feminism |
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coalition difficulties
assumed to be for white women only |
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Third wave of feminism
(1980s-present?) |
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goals-
reclaim multiplicities of feminity particularly along lines of class, race, and sexuality
NO universal woman |
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| Concerns in 3rd wave of feminism |
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sexual expression
queer theory
transnationalism
reclamation of derogatory terms [bitch] |
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| Important figures in 3rd wave of feminism |
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bell hooks
Patricia Hill Collins
Lady Gaga? |
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| Accomplishments in 3rd wave of feminism |
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| legal action for domestic abuse, sexual harrasment in workplace, maternity leave |
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| Drawbacks in 3rd wave of feminism |
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| Feminist critique of performance |
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believes that representation creates meaning and has material consequences
-if no women are being shown, what does that mean?
Reads agaisnt the grain, resists stereotypes and cultural texts/ scripts that shape stereotype
Aware of attention on issues of gender and/or sex and stresses multiple viewpoints of women |
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civil rights term
-people of latin descent living in America
-umbrella term (not a racial, ethnic, or linguistic category) |
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Cepeda- "a transnational imagined community of US latinos and latin americans"
Munoz "feeling brown" |
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of or from spanish descent
1980s concensus term |
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| 1st, 2nd generation immigrants |
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| Born in Texas of Mexican descent |
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| Puerto Rican in or around NYC |
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| Latino representation in US performance |
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contemporary immigration/labor debate
criminalizing/hypermaculinity of latino men and hypersexualization of latina women
JLO and Selena are thought about interchangeably at times |
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| Stereotypes and tropes of latinos |
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male- agricultural laborers or service men
female- hypersexualized "big earring, glossy lips. cleavage" |
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| Latino performance movements: 3 major locales |
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LA center of writing and production
-la revista (sketch comedy and satire)
-stories of recent immigrants
San Antonio
-center of carp (tent theatre)
-family entertaintment and moral education
New York
-bufo cubano (type of musical theatre and sketch comedy), puertorican and dominican political theeatre |
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| Latino eras in performance movement |
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1960s El teatro campesino
1990s latin boom
Scripted theatre |
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| 1960s el teatro campesino |
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theatrical troupe founded in 1965 as part of the United Farmworkers Association
Variety of performance traditions
-spanish religion dramas adapted for teaching purposes
-mexican folk theatre
-Aztec and mexican sacred rituals |
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J Lo, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias
performing latina/o- over performance almost
-performance for consumption and importance in popular media |
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magical realism/lo real maravilloso
blurs fantasy and reality
ex: Frieda |
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| Common characteristics of latino theatre performance |
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influence of traditional pop culture
-santo criello (short comic farce)
-circo carpas
--tent theater
--sketches puppet shows, satire, acrobatics
--stock characters "indian or el pelado"
Transcuturation not assimilation
-highlighting aspects of certain cultures but not diluting them
-bilingual/bi-cultural identities (english and spanish) transculture
-political commentary or comment about what's going on in the community |
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| self identifying term that acknowledges places of origin and or ancestry, cultural practices, community, and individual identities |
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| history of term "asian american" |
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Chris Lijima
political movement
organizing tool practice in the progressive movements (civil rights)
alternative to "oriental" |
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abolished national origins quota (1924) that said they would only let x amount of people
-instead of 170,000 immigrants from east hemisphere were allowed in, no more than 20,000 from each country
-response to civil rights movement
-coincides with vietnam war(US was open to refuges)
-significantly impacted racial makeup of US
--chinese exclusion act 1882
--national origins act 1924
--anti-misoagenation laws in Cali (who could reproduce with who)
-Executive order 9066- internment of japenese americans after pearl harbor on west coast |
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white actors dressed in yellow face acted asin as a form of racial cross dressing and minstrelsy
reproduced circulated racism
-influenced public opinion prior to legislation
-coincides with anti-asian movements |
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| Asian american theatre: important early creators (60s-70s) |
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east west players [LA]
Asian american theatre workshop [SF]
Theatrical ensemble of asian americans [seattle]
pan asian repertory theatre [nyc]
ALL emerge in activist time period |
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| Asian american theatre: street to stage |
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1979 protest against public theatre in NYC
-led by David Oyama
--not enough opportunity for asian american actors
--specific biased casting
RESULT- bad PR for the theatre, artistic director surrenders |
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model monority myth
-when one minority does well it makes all the other minority look bad
-asian=smart
who gets excluded? INDIA |
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| Asian american stereotypes |
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sixteen candles- long duck dong
interchangeable identities- is he really chinese, japanese?
men v. woman
men- always foreigner, emasculinity/asexuality OR perceived as misogynists
women- doll-like, hypersexualization (prostitutes or geishas) |
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| Origins of ballet: the french court |
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King Louis XIV, The Sun King, Reigned 1643-1715
·Founds the Royal Academy of Dance (Paris Opera Ballet)
·Ballet is codified
·Performed mostly by men, although, women did participate
·An art of the royalty and aristocracy-performed in celebration
·New and distinct schools develop in Italy, England, Denmark, Russia |
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Rise of the Prima Ballerina (mid 1800s)
large male fan base-slightly scandalous
female ballerina objectified |
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| themes in romantic ballet |
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-Love and marriage (carry over from court ballet)
-Ethereal fantasy (fairies, elves, witches, curses, etc) |
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use of gesture to create meaning
-common pantomime: love, marriage, dance, die |
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| Quest for weightlessness in dance |
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-pointe shoes
-tutus, wire rigging and gas lights= danger |
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| Ballet russe: from russia to paris, with love |
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-young dancers/artists from Russia flee to paris following the russia revolutionary- early 20th century
-from technically virtuostic imperial russian ballet- home of the sleeping beauty, nutcracker, swan lake
ballet russe considered avant garde |
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| Ballet russe: Vaslow Nijinky's controversial works: |
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The rite of spring (ritual performance where maiden dances herself to death)
afternoon of faun (large alterations to ballet aesthetics, sexual tension)
-troubled topics |
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| New american genre of modern dance |
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rejected restrictions and conventions of ballet
opted for creative expression over technical virtuosity
attracted primarely female audiences |
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| 1st generation in modern dance |
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| Lorie Fuller, Ruth St.Dennis, Isadora Duncan >3 women |
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| 2nd generation in modern dance |
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Doris Humphrey, Lester Horton, Martha Graham
-codified mmodern dance and established their own schools of style |
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modern dance diva (1894-1991)
influenced by psychoanalytical work of Freud and Carl Jung
-exploration of repressed or unconscious forces that determine human behavior
-dance company funded in 1926
--began as all female company, eventually admitted males, first dance company to racially intergrate |
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Told the story of oedipus rex from the perspective of oedipus' mother, Jocasta, danced by Martha Graham
-man she loves is also her son
-plays strong female character |
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originated from african american vernacular dance in era of jazz music
-favors improvisation
ex: charleston, lindy hop, jitterbug |
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reponsible for molding jazz into form we recognize today
Bob Fosse- chicago born dancer
--moves to NYC to become next Fred Astaire
Ex:chican=go, cabaret
--jazz is the precursor of hip-hop |
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born in rodgers, tx
student of Lester Horton 2nd gen.
hybridized his own technique (Horton/graham/ballet/jazz/african)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre -1958 (celebration of African culture) |
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| revelations of alvin ailey |
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widely performed
"blood memory"
celebration of culture through music and movement
spirituals
3 movements
wade in the water:take me to the water |
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| postrmodern dance (1960-1970) |
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rejected codification, training, and presentation of modern dance
viewed all movement as capable of being considered dance
did not see formal training as required
emphasized experimental improvisation
Judson Dance Theatre
-informal gathering of dancers performing/creating in NYC
(short lived moment that largely influences current dance forms) |
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Contemporary dance
combo of ballet, jazz,modern and post modern
ballet Hispanico's Mad Moiselle, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa |
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mainstream media attention
-dancing with the stars
-ABDC
-dance your ass off
-sytycd
what does this exposure mean for dance?
-larger audience=more accesibility
sacrifice of artistry for spectacle?
I didnt get it. Take away own experience. Dance isnt about "getting it" |
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double or triple roles present
-person, character (double)
-person, character, audience perspective (Triple) |
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| the actor is responsible for |
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studying text, memorizing lines and blocking
defining, adjusting character development
maintain health and flexibility of voice and body.
keep performance fresh but consistent on quality. |
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| what an audition does for the director |
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more for director
who can play role, which actors compliment each other
shows range of talents (dialect)
cast by immediate judgement
who can take direction, whos had training |
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reading histories, biographies, getting real life experience
transform the body, hair or clothing (gain/lose weight) |
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TIRING. Performance is tiring.
action and reaction with environment and other actors
improvisation - spontaneous invention |
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| who used method acting (acting from the inside)? |
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Stanilavsky
French psychologists Theodule Armand Ribot
Practitioners |
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create an inner life
character's task or objective
motivation must match what the character wants to do.
subtext-hidden meaning of what someone is saying
Tasks directed to other actors/characters, not audience
Actors should stay in the moment. |
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| emotional recall- all past experiences are recorded in your nervous system (method acting) |
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Stella Adler and Sanford Meinsner
The actor's studio, headed by Lee Straburg
--standard of american acting (stage and film)
--privilaged actors over the script |
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acting in response to
-Stanisvlasky changed his mind.
--moved to technical instruction
eventually discarded emotional recall.
instead replaced with focus on physical action and very specific direction |
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| character believeability in acting |
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consistency/characterization
relatibility
inflexions - not monotone
actions reflective of setting and time
actor's instrument - body, voice, diction, language, breathing, etc.
Movement - take up space onstage, subtly of movement/detail, uncontrolled behavior
psychological instrument - imagination |
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specific division or classification of drama, including tragedy, comedy, melodrama, tragicomedy and farce.
looks at relationship between humans and the world
tool for exploration
answers questions like --
How do we have control in life?
Do we always fail? |
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not necessarily opposite experiences
way to understand the rhythm of human life cycle. Characters go through the cycle of life generally. |
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Disaster, ending, mortality
"Better than actual life" - Aristotle
Tragedy always has to do with noble people/happenings
higher standards, higher class
-Audience establishes empathy
catharsis - emotional release and cleansing of the spirit leading to new understanding or greater wisdom
Lack of contemporaneous examples of tragedy in theatre to pinpoint identified with human experience. |
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continuation, success of generation, love, and rebirth
-scheme that disrupts daily ordering
-common sense prevails
-marriage endings
-srious laughter
--comedies are serious situations formed in comedic way
Aristotle: "imitation of characters of a lower type"
ludicrous, loss of control |
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struggle for succession (nobility, heir to the throne)
rupture of family and societal bonds
isolation of tragic character (main character)
acceptance of responsibility
EX: Remember Me |
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| in comedy, we do not laugh at pain... |
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We do not laugh at pain.
if we truly believed they were in pain we would empathize, feel pity
we have to recognize ludicrous and loss of control to keep from feeling sorry. |
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simple conflicts of good v. evil
cause of problem externalized (in tragedy, its internalized)
clearly identified hero (usually male)
woman is supporting role that needs to be saved.
EX: Star Wars, Spiderman, Mission Impossible |
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not just combo of seriousness and comedy
plays concerned with human awareness rather than a program of social change
exploration of existence of philosophical position
presents more questions than answers.
laughter interrupted by truth of pain.
Playwrights- Edward Albee and Sam Shephard (breakdown of the american family)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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difference from comedy?
concerned with humorous possibilities of the moment
anarchy and breaking the rules
highlights actors, not playwrights. |
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| actors from farce rebel against |
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Aristocracy
high culture
institutions that have lost touch with the "people"
Arbitrary rules and hierarchal structure |
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American playwright, career spanned 50 years.
most influential playwright of 20th century
Career:plays most widely produced ever
many adapted to film
Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Streetcar and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Understanding and compassion
evocative character studies |
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opened on Broadway - Dec. 1947
stars
Marlon Brando as Stanley
Jessica Tandy as Blanch
sister = schizophrenic (Blanche?)
personally suffered from depression and substance abuse
tempestuous relationships
emotionally conflicting |
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Desire:
Minor characters?
Where does the story take place?
What's the time period? |
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mitch, eunice, steve
new orleans
1945ish, close to WW2 |
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Brute
working class (Polish)
was in the armed forces
proud |
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OLDER SISTER BUT LIES
Highschool teacher
fall from grace
alcoholic who tries to cover it up.
a lot of lovers
mentally unstable |
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loves stanley
pregnant
abandoned upbringing |
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| Stanley and Blanche's relationship |
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primary source of tension
class/culture class |
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| stella and blanche relationship |
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| sisters living different lives |
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1.fantasy and reality
2.sex and death
3.dependence on men |
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| Desire: fantasy and reality |
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Blanche uses fantasies and lies
as a psych tool to distance herself from harsh effects of reality
-downplaying her drinking
-minimize her age.
-playing up her wardrobe
-calling old lovers
-Scene 10 w/ Stanley (he brought me roses, we made up)
psychiatric ward- doesn't want to go
END scene - "whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
She's going into this permanent fantasy.
Stella creates a fantasy that helps her in her domestic abuse. |
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-Death is referenced in Blanches fear of aging and loss of beauty
-sexuality employed to avoid "death"
--However sex is alluded to as being the cause of death as well
streetcars
Desire > Cemeteries > Elysian Fields (greek afterlife)
Sex causes death for --
ancestors p. 220
Husband (alan's) death
Don't overlook Mexican women selling flowers in scene 9.
"flowers for the dead" |
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| desire: dependence on men |
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Play as a critique of Southern women post war.
Blanche and men
Stanley
constant battle between them.
regards him as animalistic, common
perhaps jealous of his relationship with Stella
What does this play say about women who pose challenge to Stanley's type of masculinity?
They are punished/sent away/dealt with.
OR is Blanche trying to be an aggressor (man) like Stanley?
Shep Huntleigh
escape, fantasy (similar to travel agent in Angels in America)
Reinstating the idea that women are dependent on men.
Blanche has him to "fall back on"
Mitch
physical escape for Blanche.
What about Stella? Why does she stay?
"I'm not in anything I want to get out of" p. 231
Does the child throw a kink in everything?
dependent on man to raise baby. |
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Light
Blanche hides in the dark from Mitch. Light = good.
Bathing
Similar to Father Flynn, she is absolving herself of sins. Becoming pure again. Cleanliness.
Drunkenness
Always covered up but is there throughout the play.
another escape mode.
Stanley - balance between control and inhibition
unveils his true self to the audience through drunkenness. |
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| Use of sensory triggers to locate actor physically and psychologically |
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costume - sketches and color renderings
scene - complete design based on needs of production and theatre budget.
lighting - position and angles of lights; special effects
sound - deals with cues, sounds and musical pieces |
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| THEATRICAL SPACE IN DESIGN |
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first factor considered when thinking through design.
size, dimensionality, relationship to audience |
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designs for contemporary theatre include aesthetics of neutral space and elaborate scenic background.
Costume and lighting particularly expressive in open space
Appiah and open space
-terrain:ramps, steps and playing areas of different heights for rhythmic and visual implications.(DIDN'T USE SCENIC BACKGROUND, INSTEAD CREATED HEIGHT) |
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attends to fabric, color and texture
can place character in time, place, social status of may be symbolic.
costumes must be coherent and unified throughout the play.
clothing affects the psychology of character
costume designer must allow for the growth of the actor
think of costume as partner in building actor's role.
EX: boots = class in Jekyll and Hyde |
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light is powerful influence
3 periods of light design
early theatre-natural light bc productions were outside
Renaissance-candles and gas lights
modern-electric lighting
so much freedom and different uses. |
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side light-shapes bodies (comes from stage right/left)
front light-illuminates faces (comes from the front)
spot light-isolate characters (just from one front light)
gels-change mood (different colors)
patterned stencils(gobs)-special effect on floor and surface
backlighting-can create shadow,often used with a screen. (light comes from back) |
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| charts placement of lighting instruments to meet needs of production |
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| fading in/out - coordination with music -- length of light changes. |
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most recent addition to theatrical production
typically implemented in early stages of production
sound score as aural presentation parallel to visual presentation |
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environmental sound - production's expressive language
hints at time, place, setting, what's happening
amplification - reinforcing speaking/singing so they carry throughout the theatre. (AKA sound reinforcement)
important for musicals but kind of a double edged sword bc lessens value of voice.
operas don't use miss. |
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Hyde falls in love with Elizabeth (sister of the trampled girl)
Dr. Jekyll conducting experiments with opium. |
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| Dr. Jekyll doesn't believe its an addiction. Believes he can control it. |
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sister of trampled girl, prostitute.
works a hotel
discovers the secret
reason that Jekyll keeps becoming Hyde
becomes good for Hyde. |
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Jekyll's butler, loyal
very suspicious |
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| private eye who Jekyll hires to follow Hyde so he can know what he does as Hyde. |
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creeper, interesting perspective
Jekyll's nemesis, is eventually killed by Hyde
Women was raped and murdered. he wants to cut her open. |
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Jekyll's attorney and best friend.
makes it to the end.
suspicious of hyde/jekyll |
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Jekyll confides in him.
he says "hyde should be committed"
Gets killed by Hyde once he figures out how they're related. |
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| PRODUCTION ELEMENTS IN JEKYLL AND HYDE |
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multiple locations - listed in beginning of play
quick transitions - actors never left stage
lamppost - very important
journal entries
in the script > it talks about "red door" how was this created in the show?
gels, backlighting, corset, handkerchief. |
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| SETTING OF JEKYLL AND HYDE |
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| COSTUMES IN JEKYLL AND HYDE |
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uniform - victorian in style/silhoulette but allow for changes in character.
the cane! = Hyde |
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| DOUBLING IN JEKYLL AND HYDE |
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play written for 4 men, 2 women.
gender blurring in play
women played men.
non realist elements
-ELIZABETH |
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Live-always involves real people in real time.
experimental w/o rules or guidelines.
NOT for sale-cannot be bought or traded as a commodity.
Pushing back on capitalism of art.
Made accessible to the public. removes curator.
can be comprised of --
painting, sculpture, dialogue, poetry, music
IS legitimate form of artistic movement.
can be entertaining, shocking but always memorable |
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| ORIGIN OF PERFORMANCE ART? |
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term originated in 1960s
derived from earlier forms of (GERMAN) BAUHAUS, DADAISM AND BEATNIKS |
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sound poetry and visual arts
led to surrealism (philosophy), pop art (images from pop culture made into art - Andy Warhol) and punk rock |
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| "beat" as in "beaten down", anti-conformism |
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relationship between space, sound, light
bauhaus-derived from German modernism about design - more from realism. |
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introduced dance
popularity of body art. flesh as canvas. self-mutilation.
rise in autobiography incorporated into performance piece. |
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| Technology incorporation increased (i.e. televisions) |
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| use of computer mediated forms. |
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| Yoko Ono in performance art |
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artist, musician, author, peace activist, destroyer of the Beatles
"cut piece" -1964
audience members cut away her clothing
commentary on identity, unity and love
touched on issues of gender and sexism |
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| Guillermo Gomez- Rena and Coco Fusco |
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cross-cultural hybrid identities, immigration, politics of language, and globalizations
"couple in the cage" - traveling performance
2 caged Amerindians from an imaginary islands.
supposed to be a satirical commentary on "discovery"
Audiences believed the fiction; they thought they were real savages.
performance reflects on morality of treating humans like exotic curiosities. |
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As a genre has existed since Greek times (492 BC)
form of theatre that (wholly or in part)uses pre-existing documents as material for script without altering words
newspapers, news footage, gov't reports, interview
attempts to bring social issues to stage by emphasizing facts over aesthetics.
ACCURACY! |
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-came out bc of 'not guilty' verdict of 4 LA police officers captured on tape beating Rodney King
-South central LA-riots here
-lasted 6 days, city under curfew
-looting, arson, murder, property damages estimated to be around $1 billion, 53 deaths.
-Korean and Asian immigrants widely targeted. |
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| 3 important videos in Twilight LA? |
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3 important videos
Rodney King beating
Latasha Harlins killing
Reginald Denny beating(white truck driver beaten by black people) |
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| production of twilight LA 1992 |
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-words of real people that Ana Deveare Smith interviewed
-based on interview, acted verbatim with accuracy.
-language creates identity from arrangements of words, not race, color, etc.
Visual aids, slides crucial
provide background |
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| Dealing with race in plays |
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sets/costume/props could be minimal or ornate BUT must be specific and individual to avoid stereotype
-Play is about race and assumptions made based on visual impressions
costumes and props should be extension of this and that we fail to pay attention to the details of people
how they speak, how they sit in their chairs
--resisting those assumptions/stereotypes |
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| 2 specifics of performance |
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can be performed by one person or multiple
performed barefoot (unless shoes are used to show power) |
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| casting and acting in twilight LA 1992 |
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actors are cultural workers trying to reach out toward what is different from them.
-suspend judgement and stereotype (resist/go against)
-attention to specifics (verbatum)
No typecasting (ethnicity, age, gender, class are variables that the audience sees shifting)
emphasis on vocal, physical and verbal ability |
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| defense attorney for Korean woman who shot Latasha under fire from black community |
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| WHO IS GINA RAE "QUEEN MALKA"? |
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clerk
calling out Charles Lloyd "sold his black card"
talking about if the trial had been reverse, it would be a huge deal |
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liquor store owner
trying to share/support Korean women
"good mom/good wife"
also tells his story of black people experiences. how they steal in his store.
shows racial tension |
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| JOSIE MORALES IN RODNEY KING BEATING |
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witness
originally called by the prosecution but they never called her again bc her testimony goes against the police report. |
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upper body controls (chokeholds)
black people dying bc of chokeholds...
opened with "they weren't holding the baton right"
said that this beating was retaliation of the revoking of chokeholds. |
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| ANONYMOUS JUROR IN RODNEY KIND BEATING |
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the judge wanted to meet with jurors before verdict, didn't after. then released their names to public.
threats and welcome to the KKK mail. |
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| CHARACTERISTICS OF SOLO PERFORMANCE |
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Also known as "one women/man shows"
storytelling(personal or community)
documenting
-docudrama (dramatization of events based on real life)
mime and movement (body is primary source of oppression and source/instrument)
mixing media (way of layering subjective experience
FREQUENTLY BREAKS THE FOURTH WAL BUT NOOOT ALWAYS! |
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| GOALS OF SOLO PERFORMANCE |
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disrupt routines and expectations
inspire change
incite discussion and interaction
evoke reactions and impressions that linger |
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| methodology: auto-ethno-graphy |
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body is the cultural subject and body is the research device.
auto = self, ethno = culture, graphs = study.
writer is researcher and subject. |
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"body as performative site of the narrated present, remembered past, and potential future" (p. 70)
spectacle of surveillance from news media. |
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story to discipline someone "stay in your place or something will happen"
done with the nooses on the tree |
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| chief, thoas, pastor watson, jeromey |
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1. Relies on mundane parts of life and exaggeration of mundane
2. gives us a feeling of the unexpected.
Embraces/Depends on the Unexpected
1. But then it also relies on what is expected (buildup and anticipation)
Ex: Katt Williams: TinkTink
Consistently evolving
May not be funny to parents
2. Depends on the audience present
"the great equalizer"
1. If you can make people laugh, you can make people do anything
2. Brings audience together |
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| comedy according to aristotle |
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| 1. Aristotle: of all types of performance, comedy is the most divorced from true life. |
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1. Character: Who is this person in relation to other characters in the audience
2. Situation: How does the time and place affect the text and/or character
3. Text: What is written/directed |
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ex:
1. Teller: Jim=the jokester
2. Listener: Audience and the people in the office
3. Dwight: Object |
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| slapstick/physical comedy |
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using body to convey humor
ex:3 stooges, charlie chaplin, steve urkel, kat williams |
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| deliberate mimicry to mock, poke fun at, point criticism using humor |
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horatian: playfully criticizing social vice (simpsons)
juvenaliam:addresses social evil through scorn w/ less emphasis on humor, more pessimism [south park] [family guy] |
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| series of short comedy scenes or vignettes 1-10 min long (snl, mad tv) |
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Improvisation is getting onstage and making something as you go along-Mick Napier
Performance of process
Ephemeral-unscripted, in the moment, difficult to recreate
Live, virtuosic-difficult
Involves an audience
6. **Yes, AND** (key rule to improvisation, you always say yes and add to the story) |
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| what is subversive humor? |
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Challenges power relation
Undermining status differences
Emphasize group distinctions
The object has something different about them that should be responded to
Using humans as a teaching tool
Re-defines Reality |
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narrative, character driven
breakdown of subject/object
about/for/by women that doesnt re-inscribe misogynist
1. Ex: Melissa McHarty, Bridesmaids |
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| John Stewart and The Daily Show |
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meant to surprise audience
1. Ex: Jackass |
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breanda whithers and mindy kahling
both attended dartmouth
Kahling: the office
-play premiered in 2002 at NY international fringe festival |
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| the premise in Matt and Ben |
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Good Will Hunting (1998)
2. Starring: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
3. Winner: Best Original Screenplay
1. Relies on familiarity with Matt and Ben in popular tabloid culture.
--team matt and team ben
---relationships, humble origins, townies, friends |
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| characters in matt and ben |
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matt and ben but they play different roles
JD Salinger [matt]
Gwyneth Paltrow [ben]
played by women
"adaptation is the highest form of flattery" |
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| joke triangle in matt and ben |
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1. Object: Matt and Ben
2. Teller: Sometimes Matt and sometimes Ben
3. Receiver: Audience of the play |
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| key elements to matt and ben |
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Skylar and Will’s breakup scenes from Good Will Hunting
1. To use exact lines from Good Will, it would be issued as copyright
2. Must acquire production rights to perform the actual script from the movie
1. Unabashedly critical of celebrities
Gwyneth Paltrow: super skinny, steals cake, diva
4. David Schimmer: “looks like a mushroom”
References
1. School Ties
2. Simon and Garfunkle's Bridge Over Troubled Waters
1. The song that Matt sang at the Talent Show with Ben. |
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| Experimental and new media theatre |
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pushes the boundaries of traditional theatre in relationship to playwright and production
-also known as avant garde or fringe theatre
-seen as a type of artistic expression that attempts to push th eenvelope of live performance
-not created to generate profit
-not particularly for the pleasure of the audience |
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recognizes advent of iPods, cellphones, videogames, etc. as a relevant artistic form
- combined with experimental theatre fosters an understanding of live performance in culturally relevant ways |
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refers to 3D, site-specific work designed to transform public perception of space [traditional]
-can be temporary or permanent |
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| author guidelines in 13 ways to kill... |
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liberty to download/remix videos [highly interactive]
open communication
question your understanding of image or videoclip as an:
illustration
tranlation
supplement of fulfillment of the performance |
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| parameters of work in "13 ways..." |
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NOT an attempt to recreate live performance (some of whats on the website never appeared on the show)
NOT a neat correspondance
-additionally, not everything perfectly aligns/overlaps with harper lee's novel [play on adaptation] |
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| Section 6 "13 ways to kill..." |
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passage a l'acte [1993] by gary morris
-takes TKM breakfast scene and remakes it into a surrealist nightmare
-targets the 1950s family
Suchy's remake:13 ways to kill...
--wanted to see what it would look like live
--interest in sound-
--juxtaposition of live bodies and cinematic bodies
--violence of cinema |
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