Trans-global readings

Crossing theatrical boundaries
Herausgeber: Svich, Caridad

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a forum for a wide range of theatre, music and performance artists to talk about where they stand in relation to new technologies, intercultural collaborations, and the making of interdisciplinary work. Looking at how time, space and memory play an active role in shaping different artistic visions, editor Caridad Svich has gathered the voices of unique and dynamic artists including Tim Etchells, Rinde Eckert, Richard Foreman, Peter Gabriel, David Greig, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Phelim McDermott and Peter Sellars as a way to examine the impact of globalisation on the creation and development of new work.

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Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780719063251
• ISBN-10: 0719063256
• Artikelnr.: 21573475

Autorenporträt

Caridad Svich is a member playwright of New Dramatists in New York City

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowledgements The dynamics of fractals: Legacies
for a new tomorrow - Caridad Svich Intersection, crossover and convergence:
Fluidity in contemporary arts - Michael Cerveris CROSSING MEDIA Witness and
witnessed - Rinde Eckert in conversation with Caridad Svich Chasing ruins -
Tim Etchells in conversation with Caridad Svich A singular vision of hope -
Richard Foreman in conversation with Caridad Svich A synesthetic response -
Peter Gabriel in conversation with Caridad Svich A natural force - John
Jesurun in conversation with Caridad Svich Between technology and emotion -
Mikel Rouse in conversation with Caridad Svich Weaving the 'live' and
mediated - Marianne Weems in conversation with Caridad Svich Inside and
outside of the academy - Maury Yeston in conversation with Michael Cerveris
CROSSING CULTURE Towards translocalism: Latino theatre in the new United
States - Ricardo Bracho and Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas in conversation with
Jose Esteban Muñoz Honouring mystery - Migdalia Cruz in conversation with
Caridad Svich Light in the midst of darkness - Dah Teatar's Dijana
Milosevic and Kathy Randels in conversation with Lisa D'Amour Navigating
the minefields of utopia - Guillermo Gomez Peña and Lisa Wolford in
dialogue An advocate for change - Tanika Gupta in conversation with Caridad
Svich Communing with culture - Chiori Miyagawa in conversation with Caridad
Svich CROSSING LANGUAGE The landscape remembers you - Hilary Bell from an
interview with Naomi Wallace Light, memory and other questions - A
correspondence between Jim Clayburgh and Matthew Maguire Evanescent truth -
Erik Ehn in conversation with Caridad Svich Reshaping myth - Joanna Laurens
in conversation with Caridad Svich In search of a common language - Susan
Yankowitz in conversation with Caridad Svich CROSSING BODIES Strange
behavio[u]r, Jr - Stephen J. Bottoms and Julie Laffin in conversation A
sense of place - Peter DuBois in conversation with Caridad Svich Working in
partnership - David Greig in conversation with Isabel Wright Dreaming out
loud - Phelim McDermott in conversation with Caridad Svich A fixer between
living and dead artists - Nick Philippou in conversation with Caridad Svich
Hidden worlds: On artists and collaborators - Peter Sellars in conversation
with Maria Delgado Active sound - Darron L. West in conversation with
Caridad Svich AFTERWORD Contemporary dramatic writings and the new
technologies - Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson NOTES ON
CONTRIBUTORS Select bibliography Index