Browsing Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies by publication year
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"Unassumable Responsibility": Watching Mike Parr
Published 2008-06-16This ‘paper’ is a short personal piece of writing—an interior monologue really—about “being there” at Mike Parr’s "Punch Holes in the Body Politic" at Artspace in Sydney. I wrote this initially at the time and have added ...Open AccessConference paper -
Necklace Theory
Published 2008-06-16In this paper I will describe the stages involved in preparing the performance season of my major project for my Master of Dramatic Art (Direction). The key issues I raise are: the set-up of the research environment; ...Open AccessConference paper -
'Bodily': Conjunction and Fermentation
Published 2008-06-16'This cult of thinness has burrowed its way into my body. Into our bodies. It’s a way of life. The head knows we shouldn’t, but the heart has no choice . . . This is our contradiction'. This paper looks at the “before, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Being Political in German Theatre and Performance: Anna Langhoff and Christoph Schingensief
Published 2008-06-16Anna Langhoff and Christoph Schlingensief are two contemporary theatre makers who sit at opposite ends of the dramatic/postdramatic theatre divide. In that both artists see themselves as critics of western neoliberalism, ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Performance of War Images
Published 2008-06-16This paper addresses the use of the body in post-9/11 performances of Japanese performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha in correlation with the continuing War on Terror campaign, and the ‘culture of protest’ in theatrical ...Open AccessConference paper -
Meta-Performativity: Being in Shakespeare’s Moment
Published 2008-06-17In the dramatic performance of text, linguistic performativity is inherent within the utterances provided by the playwright for the character, to be used as if they were in normal use in the world of the play. The actor, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Taking Ethnographic Film Back
Published 2008-06-17This presentation invites questions about the way performance objects manifest cosmological unity. “[T]he framework of the crosses is the bone, ornad, of the ancestor-dancer, while the wool is the flesh of the ancestor-dancer’s ...Open AccessConference paper -
Repositioning the Interface for Cross-Cultural Reception of Indigenous Australian Theatre
Published 2008-06-17Representations and practices of identity on the street and on the stage are always marked and read on many levels within the tension between self claimed concepts and understandings of identity and imposed external concepts ...Open AccessConference paper -
'The Presence of Design': The Sets and Costumes are There, too
Published 2008-06-17We tend to focus on the actor and the audience when we think of being there. However, the design (the space, imagery, costumes and style) dictates the conditions in which the actors and audience engage. This paper will ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Redfern Riots: Performing the Politics of Space
Published 2008-06-17This paper approaches the 2004 Redfern ‘riots’ a performance event that is both indicative of, and constituted through, specific socio-historical formations. Central to the discussion are issues relating to the intersection ...Open AccessConference paper -
New Audiences' Reception of Plays: Before, During and After
Published 2008-06-17This paper provides insight into the reception of non-theatregoers to a selection of plays performed in Queensland and the Northern Territory in 2004 and 2005. This data was collected and analysed as part of a three-year ...Open AccessConference paper -
Stage Directions and Spatial Mapping on the Elizabethan Stage
Published 2008-06-17This paper will discuss initial work that points to a degree of directionality in some Elizabethan stage directions: they are not merely telling the actors to enter and exit the stage, but may in addition be indicating ...Open AccessConference paper -
Stanislavski’s Rehearsal Processes Re-Viewed
Published 2008-06-17A Stanislavski Symposium was held in Stockholm in 1986, where some of the last surviving actors and directors who had been trained by Stanislavski himself discussed and worked ‘on the floor’ with over 300 Swedish actors ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Theatre Programme: A Public Discourse at a Staging of Maxwell Anderson's 'Anne of the Thousand Days'
Published 2008-06-17The term ’public discourses’ describes a range of texts or signifiers that inform the conditions of audience reception. Public discourses include myriad written, visual, spatial, auditory and sensory texts experienced by ...Open AccessConference paper -
Evolution, Mutation and Hybridity in Bio-Performance Practice: Wet Biology and Hybrid Arts in the Performance/Installation 'BioHome—The Chromosome Knitting Project'
Published 2008-06-17In this paper I explore the influence of ‘Wet Biology’ practices on the development of my durational performance work 'BioHome: the Chromosome Knitting Project' at research, rehearsal, performance and documentation stages. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The New Woman in the New World: Ibsen in Australia 1889-1891
Published 2008-06-17In 1889, when Janet Achurch brought 'A Doll’s House' by Henrik Ibsen to Australian and New Zealand audiences for the first time, there was an expectation that this play would send shock waves throughout the Antipodes as ...Open AccessConference paper -
Dance, Mimesis, consciousness and the Imagination
Published 2008-06-17One of the primary assumptions of dance studies is that dance as an art only exists in the moment of movement and as a result it is transmitted, in a form of mimesis, directly from the body of the teacher to that of the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Performing Confessions: Making Sense Afterwards of Field Immersion
Published 2008-06-17“You have to create a fiction about yourself to make sense to people. I never lied; but I had to tell a story.” Joanne Good, a 42-year-old anthropology postgraduate, spent seven years in a rural Indonesian village conducting ...Open AccessConference paper -
A Practice of Faith: Actors and Rehearsal (A Tragedy in One Act)
Published 2008-06-17An Australian actor completes actor training, leaves drama school, and accepts low-skilled, casual employment while he begins auditioning for performance roles. Finally he lands a role in a theatre production. What does ...Open AccessConference paper -
Constructing remnants: Determining strategies for Performance Documentation
Published 2008-06-17This paper address methodolgoical issues involved in the video documentation of live performance, using, as a case study, a recording the author made of Brink Theatre’s 2005 production of Sarah Kane’s '4.48 Psychosis' in ...Open AccessConference paper