... to preserve and expand their audience bases, the invitation is extended to allow audiences to learn more about the process and production of theater. Theater 40:3  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-002 © 2010 by Tanya Dean Chance Encounters Ryan M. Davis Performing is always a gamble. No two...

...Dario Fo; Ron Jenkins, translated by Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 IALMOST BY CHANCE A W0MAN:I 1 1 I TRANSLATED BY RON JENKINS I 63 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE...

... in collaboration with the rock groups Radiohead and Sigur Rós. Cunningham also incorporated new computerized choreography software into the chance-based performance. joseph v.melillo In Merce Cunningham’s porting another or one art depending on another. own words, “there have been four events that He...

... who discovered the word DADA has remained a major Dada controversy: all accounts do agree, however, that the word DADA was found by chance in a French dictionary in Zurich in 1916, and it was immediately chosen and elevated from its French 129 meaning, a "hobby horse". As Hulsenbeck wrote...

... that conception of music and dancecoexisting, a result has led people to assume that it is improvisa- of his fruitful collaboration with Cage, is one of tional is his celebrated use of chance. Although a the basic tenets of Cunningham’s work. Cage’s great deal has been made of his brilliant and score...

... Opera, 2007. Photo: Vera Éder Directing at the Border Attila Vidnyánszky, Interviewed and Translated by Nina Király In 2006, Attila Vidnyánszky, an ethnically Hun- offers a chance to experience a lot of roles and garian director from Ukraine, became artistic stories. director...

..., and silicone implants have caused serious constantly repeats the phrase “No chance” drawn inflammation and horrible pain in his body. He from another character in the book by Drauzio symbolizes the power play inside...

..., and this coincidence brought about a great productive change in his life: 99 ZIPES I believe that God resides in chance. It was by chance. That is the creative principle for me. The 1960s in America were an emancipatory break...

... Gitta Honegger through the performance, a puzzling anach- ronism in his 19th ccntury French painter’s “My chance is different from your outfit, he has the performers mounted on tor- turc...

... there is some chance that you will be de and by the staff of the Theater. As for Singer’s play, I do not think ing more of this? 37 John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera directed at the Guthrie...

... in order to enable my partners to keep their autonomy. Perhaps I am the one who inspires, but I have never thought that actors are less creative or submissive in their actions. . . . An actor has an incredible role in creating the performance. Given the chance he is allowed to use his...

... with that.” From the Middletown Press I went on to write for many other publications, including, for about ten years, the Village Voice. But my luckiest (albeit tainted) chance came much later, in 1997, when I fell into what felt like a time warp. After a decade of college teaching, during which I devoted less...

... and production of theater. Theater 40:3  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-002 © 2010 by Tanya Dean Chance Encounters Ryan M. Davis Performing is always a gamble. No two audiences, and therefore no two performances, are ever the same. That commonplace wisdom garners fresh appreciation from dab- blers...

... their audience bases, the invitation is extended to allow audiences to learn more about the process and production of theater. Theater 40:3  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-002 © 2010 by Tanya Dean Chance Encounters Ryan M. Davis Performing is always a gamble. No two audiences, and therefore no two...

... their audience bases, the invitation is extended to allow audiences to learn more about the process and production of theater. Theater 40:3  doi 10.1215/01610775-2010-002 © 2010 by Tanya Dean Chance Encounters Ryan M. Davis Performing is always a gamble. No two audiences, and therefore no two...

... impromptu, by the audience; i.e. impro- visations. Jackson Maclow’s chance plays lend themselves to this; i.e. games; but also plays in which audience and spectators’ parts written in; or could be classics, as Blake, Noh, or Chalk Circle plays that would be swing) one play given...

..., given his biography: growing up in Poland between the wars, surviving only by chance the persecution and atrocities of the Soviet and German occupations, writing under the watchful eye of Stalinist censorship. Moreover, he wrote exclusively in his mother tongue (even during his later years in America...

... with the most joyful expectation. Olga Bokshanskaya New York, January 13, 1923 Dear, wonderful, remarkable Vladimir Ivanovich! I’ve had so much work these days that I didn’t have a chance to prepare a letter to you in advance. The mail for Europe is going out today. If I’m lucky, my letter...

... to offer and not give everyone who wanted it a chance to try for it. And it'took six months. But at the end of that time, I'd found my company. Every one of them was perfect...

... - No, and the language academics use To what do you ascribe that? better by not accepting that compromise. sometimes makes me wonder whether I, in You take a chance. As a storyteller one year But I did. fact, speak English...