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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 -
'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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
'Eftermaele': That Which Remains After the Event. a Panel Discussion concerning the use of video in the Documentation of Live Performance
Published 2008-06-17An introduction to a panel discussion on the video documentation of live performance.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 -
Falling Through Fellatio
Published 2008-06-20Time exposed through the body and being present in an act. Either through a specific sex act or witnessing a memorial to genocide in Rwanda or the death of a loved one time looses its linearity and opens to experienced ...Open AccessConference paper -
La Boite Theatre 1925-2003: Before, During and After its Transformational Journey from Amateur to Professional Status
Published 2008-06-17La Boite Theatre, the oldest theatre company in Brisbane and the second oldest in Australia, has not only survived for over eighty years in an unbroken line of theatrical activity but has successfully negotiated the difficult ...Open AccessConference paper -
Live Media and the 'Alive' Actor
Published 2008-06-27This paper considers the presence of the actor in relation to mediatisation of the theatre space. In particular the kinetic relationship of the performer to real time and simulated real time video projection. This will be ...Open AccessConference paper -
Longing to Belong: Trained Actors’ Attempts to Enter the Profession
Published 2008-06-26My research to date has focused on a sociology of the acting profession within Australia, and particularly on the experience of trained actors entering the profession. Training involves inculcated bodily and cognitive ...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 -
'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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Overcoming the Metaphysics of Consciousness: Being/Artaud
Published 2008-06-20Some recent theories of the mind have invoked the theatre as a metaphor to explain consciousness. This paper suggests that there is something irreducible to consciousness and that theatre can be an invaluable tool for ...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 -
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