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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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 -
"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 -
'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 -
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 -
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 -
'More Than Common Tall': Measuring up to the 'Real' Rosalind in Australia
Published 2008-06-17There is no record of performance history for 'As You Like It' prior to the eighteenth century. Nevertheless, critical reviews of contemporary productions trade persistently in the notion of a 'real' Rosalind by whose ...Open AccessConference paper -
Up and Down Diotima's Staircase: Space and Metaphysics in Symbolist and Expressionist Theatre
Published 2008-06-17The Staircase is particularly resonant as a meeting place of metaphysics and theatrical practice. In this paper I use the framework provided by ‘Diotima’s staircase’ – a concept from Plato’s Symposium – to examine the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Wagner and the Little Balletmaster That Could
Published 2008-06-17Theatre history accounts of the nineteenth-century always throw up the names of two geniuses of the German theatre who made significant reforms to the theatre of their day: Richard Wagner and the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Renaissance in the Regions: The HotHouse Theatre Artistic Directorate
Published 2008-06-17In its nine year life to date HotHouse Theatre has become one of the leading regional theatres in Australia with a varied program of work, consistently high audience numbers, well-developed management practices, and a ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Theatre of the Athletic Nude: The teaching and study of anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1873-1940
Published 2008-06-17Physicians Paul Richer, Henry Meige and Mathias Duval were colleagues of French neurologist, J.-M. Charcot. In 1873-1940 they consolidated within their teaching at the École des Beaux-Arts a model of aesthetics based on a ...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 -
Coaches as Phenomenologists: Para-Ethnographic Work in Sport
Published 2008-06-17If performance studies is to explore sports from the perspective of athletes, coaches form a potential pool of allies as they are engaged in their own ‘para-ethnographic’ studies of athletes’ performance. This paper examines ...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 -
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 -
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 -
During and Enduring: Forced Entertainment's 'Bloody Mess' and the Manipulation of Time in Performance
Published 2008-06-17Time is the medium that brings act, actor and audience together in the fleeting moment of performance, and the timebound interaction of bodies here, now, together is believed by Blau, Phelan and others to be a basic ...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 -
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 -
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 -
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