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DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook

Editat de Dennis Barnett Cuvânt înainte de Eugenio Barba Contribuţii de Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, Beth Cleary, Leigh Clemons, David Diamond, Jill Greenhalgh, Del Hamilton, Lyusyena Kirakosyan, Duca Knezevic, Ruth Margraff, Ivan Medenica, Amy Sarno, Arthur Skelton, Max Stephenson, Shawn Womack
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mai 2016
DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook is a collection of essays about the work of one of the most successful and innovative performance groups in contemporary history. With a direct line of descent from Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, DAH Theatre, founded during the worst of times in the former Yugoslavia, amidst a highly patriarchal society, predominantly run by women, has thrived now for twenty-five years. The chapters in this book, for the most part, have been written by both theatre scholars and practitioners, all of whom have either seen, studied with or worked with this groundbreaking troupe. What makes DAH so exceptional? The levels of innovation and passion for them extend far beyond the world of mere performance. They have been politically and socially driven by the tragedies and injustices that they have witnessed within their country and have worked hard to be a force of reconciliation, equity and peace within the world. And those efforts, which began on the dangerous streets of Belgrade in 1991, today, have reached throughout the world. Though they still make their home in Serbia, audiences from as far afield as New Zealand, Mongolia, Brazil and the U.S. have discovered their power - both in purely aesthetic terms and as passionate activists.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498527149
ISBN-10: 1498527140
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 10 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 162 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Foreword: Butterflies Who Dream of Being a Theatre
Eugenio Barba
Introduction
Dennis Barnett
A PATH TO HEALING: PERFORMANCES IN SERBIA
Chapter 1 - Theatre that Matters: How DAH Theatre Came to Be
Duca Knezevic
Chapter 2 - Honoring Memory and Articulating Truth: The Case of Serbia's DAH Theatre
Max Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan
Chapter 3 - DAH Theatre's Angels: Doubling the Directions of Community-based Memory
Amy Sarno
Chapter 4 - Two Main Tendencies in the Work of DAH Theatre: A Performance Analysis of Two Respective Cases
Ivan Medenica
Chapter 5 - Story of Tea
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 6 - In/Visible City: Transporting Histories and Intersecting Identities in Post-war Serbia
Shawn Womack
Chapter 7
The Lost Show: Tender, Tender, Tenderly and Yugo-nostalgia
Beth Cleary
SPREADING THE PEACE: REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD
Chapter 8 - Enduring and Transforming: DAH Theatre and 7 Stages' Maps of Forbidden Remembrance
Leigh Clemons
Chapter 9 - On Directing A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard: DAH Theatre, Physical Theatre, and Neurobiology
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Chapter 10 - Two Interviews: Erik Ehn and Siegmar Schroeder
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 11 - My Experience of DAH
Arthur Skelton
Chapter 12 - Elegance, Refusal, Survival: DAH Theatre
Jill Greenhalgh
Chapter 13 - Changing Ourselves to Change Society
David Diamond
Chapter 14 - On Making Devised Performances with DAH Theatre
Del Hamilton
Chapter 15 - Previously Blue: Devising the Salvage of Disaster, Resilience and Beauty
Ruth Margraff
APPENDIX

Recenzii

This is an excellent, easy to comprehend book that fills a gap in studies on resistance performance groups dedicated to "alternatives to the dominant narrative of denial" and is an invaluable sourcebook for those who choose to investigate how theatre as "a space for collective mourning" has been and can be staged. As such, it is a valuable contribution to the recently enfranchised discipline concerned with creative transformation of conflict.... [I]t is a pioneer in books on theatre that are written with the conviction that "theatre can change the world".
This international collection of theoretically and historically grounded analyses and illuminating testimonials by scholars and practitioners comprises the impressive dramaturgical archive of one of the most enduring (East) European alternative theatres today. For more than twenty-five years, the Belgrade-based DAH Theatre has resonated with Eastern as well as Western audiences by highlighting 'postcolonial' conditions fiercely agitated in some post-totalitarian countries, yet obscured in egalitarian societies, such as ethnic and gender inequities, (multi)cultural expressions, and reconciliation with traumatic and divisive histories. DAH's journey outlines a global artistic trade that begins with adopting postmodern practices originating in the West, in particular Eugenio Barba's 'theatre anthropology', creatively advancing them in the volatile post-communist context of former Yugoslavia, and exporting them internationally as a model of new performance aesthetics and socially engaged theatre.
Dennis Barnett has assembled a most informed and engaging sourcebook on DAH Theatre, one of the world's definitive companies working in social conflict contexts. A work of great breadth that offers a meaningful and enjoying read to the historian, the scholar and the practitioner, while ultimately managing to paint the rich portrait of a living theater and of the people and societal circumstances that breathe life into it. This is a necessary and revelatory book.