...Jonathan P. Eburne; Sara Freeman; Brittney S. Harris; Erica Murphy; James Stanley; Rebecca Struch; Abigail Van Patter Indulgence as Portrayed by Radiohole from ntusa s A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical Gesture and Action, 2017. Illustration: Jesse Hawley Forum Devised Futures Jonat han P. Eb...

...Allen J. Kuharski Allen Kuharski provides a critical summary and expanded framing of the first neh Institute on transmitting and archiving devised physical ensemble theater in American higher education. Kuharski delineates the goals, structure, and planning of the twelve-day gathering of fifty...

...Ryan Adelsheim adelsheim Devising a Collective Future Ryan Adelsheim In the opening moments of the 2023 neh Institute titled Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-­Based Devised Theater, Quinn Bauriedel, co artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre, offered a guiding principle shaping...

...Lex Brown; Leslie Elkins; Andrew Friedman; Jasmine Mahmoud; Erica Murphy; Sacha Vega; Sara Freeman A workshop at the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-­Based Devised Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia, 2023. Photo: Jeffrey...

...Ryan Adelsheim; Rye Gentleman; Michelle Hayford Devised theater genealogies too often take shape around a set of primarily white, Western “ensemble-based” theater companies and training schools working in modes that emerged in Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s in response...

...Yizhou Huang In this article, Yizhou Huang considers the transnational transmission of devised theater, focusing on the Shanghai-based performance group Grass Stage (Caotaiban) led by Zhao Chuan. She discusses the group’s devising process from two symbiotic aspects, the corporeal and the political...

... to foster a new generation of professional female dancers/choreographers in West Africa. She proposes that Dans Un S’Y Mettre and Engagement Féminin create a gender politics of their own devising, based in mutual support and articulated through women’s dancing bodies. © 2014 by Emily Carson Coates 2014...

...-­individualist trend in performance, nor do the editors claim the Living Theatre that they do. However, the essays in the books do provide some fascinating discussions of both lesser-­known and fairly famous practitioners who have devised their perfor- mances collectively, from the early twentieth century...

... have taken a cue from practitioners grouping this work under the term devised theater (adopted from the British theater), serving as useful professional shorthand even though arguably all theater is ultimately formed in group collaborations and ensemble-c­ reated work is hardly a tradition separated...

... Company, started in 1995, opened the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training in 2011, affiliating with Philadelphia s University of the Arts in 2015 to offer an mfa in Devised Performance. Today an abundance of artists devise work in Philadelphia. Some are directly connected by lineages...

... and popularizing functions, that is, the preparation of materials and workshops to help audiences “understand” the work of art by making them privy to the intentions of the director. She also compares the con- cept of dramaturgy with Schechner’s theory of performance studies. Part 3, “Devising...

... and during most of that period, while we grappled with what to do in what to us was a formidably vast and somewhat austere though beautiful space, I did no writing for the piece. I devised verbal excercises and Julie and choreographer Elizabeth Martin devised visual exercises and com- poser...

...: The Kitchen Table Summit. Devised through a documentary framework, the trilogy employs contemporaneous sources such as news periodicals, broadcast media, tribunal accounts, and other mediums to present a diverse array of women s narratives responding to the turbulent nature of violence and war. As a result...

... effe Award for Excellence. She theoretical approach, inseparable from a works as a dramaturg for devised theater and therapeutic-­political pragmatic. Among her has collaborated with, and commissioned books are Archive Mania (2011) and, with work from, Wojtek Zimilski, Lotte van den Félix...

... effe Award for Excellence. She theoretical approach, inseparable from a works as a dramaturg for devised theater and therapeutic-­political pragmatic. Among her has collaborated with, and commissioned books are Archive Mania (2011) and, with work from, Wojtek Zimilski, Lotte van den Félix...

... to engage nonarts sectors and settings in meaningful collaborative work, often aimed at problem solving and coalition building. Journey I’m a writer, director, deviser, and civic practitioner. I find measurement useful. I believe in creating experiences. I use my assets as a theater maker to build...

...; a person can see the children only through the audience’s faint reflection. In one of the piece’s most moving moments, the children are given the opportunity to reflect on their younger selves. The uk/German collective began interviewing and devising with the children more than two years before...

..., turning to live events as the next extension of con- temporary practice. In various indications of interest in North America alone, moma and the Whitney Museum have recently hired performance specialists; resident the- aters have begun presenting devised work created externally by independent...

... the feeling he is reading the empty chair across from him, as one ex- Deviser of the voice and of its hearer and ot his own speech. When the pronoun changes pects; instead he speaks in no particular...

... in performance, daring new works, and, more and more, a window onto other corners of the world and corresponding aesthetics, was losing its home and support from the Public Theater. The second was that the National Theatre in London would begin investing in devised theater and ensembles. A shrinking...