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Melodramatic Gesture in Carte-de-Visite Photographs
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Theater (1987) 18 (2): 5–13.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Laurence Senelick I MELODRAMATIC GESTURE
IN CARTE-DE-VISITE
PHOTOGRAPHS
LAURENCE SENELICK
he carte-de-visite photograph...
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BOOK Review: Spaces, Gestures, Objects, Light and Words: The Plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès
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Theater (1991) 22 (3): 91.
Published: 01 November 1991
... a nation- on new translations, especially those
BOOK REVIEW
Spaces, Gestures, objects, Light 1989) after his untimely death, and produce widely evocative effects from
and Wotds: The Hags of Bernard- that thanks only to the arrival of an the most basic elements of voice and
Marie Kolth...
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Doing the Facts of Feelings
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Theater (2018) 48 (2): 125–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Marc Robinson “Seventeen photocopies of a man’s hand, each depicting a different highly expressive gesture”: this provocative piece of research from Robert Wilson’s archive at the Columbia University Library draws Marc Robinson back to Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach . From its famously semaphoric...
Journal Article
REQUEST CONCERT IN BOMBAY
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Theater (1986) 18 (1): 42–51.
Published: 01 February 1986
... by Chandralekha, who used the rarefied gestures and symbols of Bharat Natyam to interpret the mechanization and banality depicted in the play. The following is an account of the Bombay production, where the role of the woman was played by Sulabha Deshpande. Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 IREQUEST...
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Theorizing in MotionPoints of Contact in International Dance at Yale
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Theater (2010) 40 (1): 11–23.
Published: 01 February 2010
... ways in which gesture, choreography, and dance knowledge circulates by physical exchange among dancers performing internationally. She describes these choreographers' work as joining tradition with innovation toward an integrated, globalized world. © 2010 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory...
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Sending Care from Afar: Pandemic Postcards and Disability Dramaturgy
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Theater (2022) 52 (2): 33–47.
Published: 01 May 2022
... on the role of care in Bulmer’s Pandemic Postcards project, a series of twenty-one video “postcards” by Disabled artists around the world, hosted by the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Watkin discusses the originating gesture of the project, a series of posts on Bulmer’s Facebook page titled...
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THEATER IN NEW York: Kroetz's Act without Words
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Theater (1981) 13 (1): 66–71.
Published: 01 February 1981
... and the most commonplace gestures. It il-
the play again, a third time, in a much dif- luminates the extraordinary in the or-
ferent production. First, because I want to dinary, the unfamiliar in the familiar, the
solve Act...
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The Theatrical Image: On Photography by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977
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Theater (1978) 9 (2): 129–132.
Published: 01 May 1978
... is time . . the dialetic is not born of the
which narrates can make us understand,” halted abruptly by the gesture, a visual in- contradiction between successive state
Sontag asserts, and only that which is trusion that emphasizes “the strict, ments or ways of behaving...
Journal Article
Mime-Movement-Theatre
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Theater (1973) 4 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 February 1973
... the word 'mime' itself is
restrictive. One visualizes an actor who does not speak, and who uses
stylized gestures to show objects which do not exist, or makes faces
to indicate that he laughs or weeps.
In this sense, I would have to reply that we don't do mime-not that
kind of mime. The mime we...
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“MEMOIRS of Africa”-Performance/text/politics
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Theater (1992) 23 (1): 15–27.
Published: 01 February 1992
...” idiom with a focus on gesture,
movement, song, and a predominantly non-verbal
dramaturgy. In the following selections from the book,
Bharucha repcts on the creation of perfonnance texts in the
context of the ethnic and political struggle in Manipur. His
criticism is followed...
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Zoo
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Theater (2017) 47 (2): 67–99.
Published: 01 May 2017
... the otherwise
audience, gesturing broadly) Hi. My name is
empty stage at center stage right. On its top
Mr. Durán.
tier, it bears a television whose screen shows the
insignia of the University of Magallanes, Chile.1...
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“FOR Me Dance Is Theater”—the Theatrical Language of Martha Graham
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Theater (1992) 23 (1): 54–57.
Published: 01 February 1992
... language in their analysis. Arlene Croce’s 1974
gesture in the largest sense, some discovered and piece shows a movement of the critical act parallel to that
final movement. of “Graham Theater,” from dance to drama:
54
Effort...
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SEVEN AGAINST Thebes: The Life of Narrative
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Theater (1968) 1 (1): 102–105.
Published: 01 February 1968
...-cape, the of the production: the separation of
messenger a brown sash, Antigone and gesture from word. The greater the
Ismene simple gowns and white scarves, distance between word and gesture,
Eteocles and Polyneices red sashes and the less is the illusion of reality. ("I n
red shawl-capes. I am...
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Toto: The Violence of the Marionette and the Mask
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Theater (1987) 18 (3): 6–12.
Published: 01 November 1987
... gestures and
his public, the title of His Imperial Highness of Byzantium. his subversive asides about Mussolini’s Italy.
Leaving school at the age of thirteen with a broken nose In 194 7 he began to work for the cinema making three or
and a permanently distorted face caused by a blow, he fre...
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Eclecticism, Oriental Theater and Artaud
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Theater (1978) 9 (3): 50–59.
Published: 01 November 1978
... in a
language that transcends the verbal. Words - the soiled currency
notes which protagonists in the Western theater carelessly ex-
change - are replaced by a “metaphysicsof speech, gesture, and
expression,” or more luminously, a language of signs. Artaud im-
patiently brushes aside the possibility...
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Peter Sellars
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Theater (1984) 15 (2): 46–52.
Published: 01 May 1984
... that moves the audience from odd curiosity to suspenseful terror.
nection of speech to lip movement. What are the tiny building Initially the amber light possesses the familiar attributes of a traffic
blocks out of which gesture is formed? How does a system of signal, and the musicians are perceived...
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How Do We Repair?
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Theater (2020) 50 (2): 47–61.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to repair to that time of wholeness? Repair and value are always an entwined pair. Repair touches the nerve of deval- uation in the same gesture as it names what has been considered useful enough to be reanimated. Or, repair names the necessity of not- living- without. If the archive is that which carries...
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Forum: Devised Futures
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Theater (2024) 54 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 May 2024
[email protected] © 2024 by individual authors 2024 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 ur ne, Sara Fr eeman, Brittney S. Harris, Erica Murphy, James Stanley, Rebecca...
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Uncreative WritingNature Theater of Oklahoma's Romeo and Juliet
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Theater (2010) 40 (2): 67–73.
Published: 01 May 2010
... not as an abdication of creative
energy, but as an elementally democratic and even Emersonian gesture. In his “Ameri-
can Scholar” address of 1837, Emerson declared that American intellectual life lay not in
European books holding “past utterance of genius,” but close at hand, to be found in an
American idiom...
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Acting the Rehearsal: Movement, Discourse, and Sentiment in Elvire Jouvet 40
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Theater (2022) 52 (3): 118–127.
Published: 01 November 2022
... on physicalization the rhythm of her walk upon entering, the rhythms of her speech, the quality and timing of her gestures gradually evolves toward his discourse of interpretation and the correlation of his conception of the Elvire role with the challenges of acting itself. In other words, there are several...
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