Posts in ‘ Legacy of Grotowski ’
Performance Notes PLAY/WAR by Urban Research Theater As performed at Where Eagles Dare Theater, March 12 & 13, 2010 In the beginning, darkness. The creaking of a door as it opens…to admit two performers. A low vocal tone resonates in the small room… First one, then a series of these tones gradually coalesce into a fragment of vocal melody…A proto-song emerges. ... [ READ MORE ]
“The Moreno story seems to depict the fault line between the privacy of practice and the public domain of art. Do others also read it this way? In a class on political theatre, I found myself defending Moreno’s attempt against the idea that only qualified professional therapists should ever attempt to work with people’s real ... [ READ MORE ]
The obvious questions that come to our mind in this context are like this: What is the journey? Where is the journey headed? Whose journey is it? Why is it a journey? We all are very conditioned and comfortable with getting answers – but not questions. Questions unsettle us, make us uncomfortable, and sometimes force us to rethink and question ... [ READ MORE ]
(translated with assistance from Francesca Netto and Ben Spatz) NOTES FROM THE YARD OF NON-THEATER (Part 1) “In the beginning was the word.” So begins the Book, and with the Book begins the era of writing. For long centuries, the Book has been the Truth. Today the word – the books – are mainly lies, ways of ... [ READ MORE ]
I know I’m not the first person to ask about historical, technical, and ontological links between Jerzy Grotowski’s work and the postmodern dance movement in the United States. I don’t think this topic has ever been fully investigated, probably because there are very few real historical leads to go on. From a scholarly perspective, there ... [ READ MORE ]
The notion of creative practice can be approached from many angles. I hope that as this discussion forum grows, the concept of creative practice will be elaborated in different ways. To begin with, however, I want to pose a series of questions as “starting points” for a consideration of creative practice. These are simply the ... [ READ MORE ]
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