scholarly journals Embodying, Imagining, and Performing Displacement and Trauma in Central Europe Today

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Zarrilli
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
The University ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

This article provides an illustrated description and analysis of Speaking Stones – a collaborative performance commissioned by Theatre Asou of Graz, Austria, with UK playwright Kaite O'Reilly and director Phillip Zarrilli as a response to the increasingly xenophobic and reactionary realities of the politics of central Europe. The account interrogates the question, the dramaturgical possibilities, and the performative premise which guided the creation of Speaking Stones. Phillip Zarrilli is internationally known for training actors through Asian martial arts and yoga, and as a director. In 2008 he is directing the premiere of Kaite O'Reilly's The Almond and the Seahorse for Sherman-Cymru Theatre and the Korean premiere of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis. He is also Professor of Performance Practice at the University of Exeter.

scholarly journals Psychophysical Approaches and Practices in India: Embodying Processes and States of ‘Being–Doing’

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Zarrilli
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
Asian Martial Arts ◽  
Yoga Practitioners

This essay articulates a South Asian understanding of embodied psychophysical practices and processes with a specific focus on Kerala, India. In addition to consulting relevant Indian texts and contemporary scholarly accounts, it is based upon extensive ethnographic research and practice conducted with actors, dancers, yoga practitioners, and martial artists in Kerala between 1976 and 2003. During 2003 the author conducted extensive interviews with kutiyattam and kathakali actors about how they understand, talk about, and teach acting within their lineages. Phillip Zarrilli is Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group, and is internationally known for training actors in psychophysical processes using Asian martial arts and yoga. He lived in Kerala, India, for seven years between 1976 and 1989 while training in kalarippayattu and kathakali dance-drama. His books include Psychophysical Acting: an Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski, Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play, and When the Body Becomes All Eyes. He is Professor of Performance Practice at Exeter University.

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

scholarly journals Citizen advisory groups for the creation and improvement of decision aids: experience from two Swiss centers for primary care

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Selby ◽  
Regula Cardinaux ◽  
Beatrice Metry ◽  
Simone de Rougemont ◽  
Janine Chabloz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Lung Cancer Screening ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Advisory Groups ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Meeting Transcripts ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Guidelines for patient decision aids (DA) recommend target population involvement throughout the development process, but developers may struggle because of limited resources. We sought to develop a feasible means of getting repeated feedback from users. Methods Between 2017 and 2020, two Swiss centers for primary care (Lausanne and Bern) created citizen advisory groups to contribute to multiple improvement cycles for colorectal, prostate and lung cancer screening DAs. Following Community Based Participatory Research principles, we collaborated with local organizations to recruit citizens aged 50 to 75 without previous cancer diagnoses. We remunerated incidental costs and participant time. One center supplemented in-person meetings by mailed paper questionnaires, while the other supplemented meetings using small-group workshops and analyses of meeting transcripts. Results In Lausanne, we received input from 49 participants for three DAs between 2017 and 2020. For each topic, participants gave feedback on the initial draft and 2 subsequent versions during in-person meetings with ~ 8 participants and one round of mailed questionnaires. In Bern, 10 participants were recruited among standardized patients from the university, all of whom attended in-person meetings every three months between 2017 and 2020. At both sites, numerous changes were made to the content, appearance, language, and tone of DAs and outreach materials. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the participative process. Conclusions Citizen advisory groups are a feasible means of repeatedly incorporating end-user feedback during the creation of multiple DAs. Methodological differences between the two centers underline the need for a flexible model adapted to local needs.

scholarly journals Embodying the Site: the Here and Now in Site-Specific Dance Performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Spirit Of Place ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, Victoria Hunter explores the concept of the ‘here and now’ in the creation of site-specific dance performance, in response to Doreen Massey's questioning of the fixity of the concept of the ‘here and now’ during the recent RESCEN seminar on ‘Making Space’, in which she challenged the concept of a singular fixed ‘present’, suggesting instead that we exist in a constant production of ‘here and nows’ akin to ‘being in the moment’. Here the concept is applied to an analysis of the author's recent performance work created as part of a PhD investigation into the relationship between the site and the creative process in site-specific dance performance. In this context the notion of the ‘here and now’ is discussed in relation to the concept of dance embodiment informed by the site and the genius loci, or ‘spirit of place’. Victoria Hunter is a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, who is currently researching a PhD in site-specific dance performance.

The changing charismatic status of the performing male body in Asian martial arts films

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brown ◽  
George Jennings ◽  
Aspasia Leledaki
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

Andrzej Jaczewski, Profesor Wydziału Pedagogicznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego – jakim Go pamiętam...

2021 ◽  
pp. 226-234
Author(s):  
Janina Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Educational Programme ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University

This article is devoted to an outline of the research and teaching activity of Professor Andrzej Jaczewski (1929–2020) at the Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw. The author describes his commitment to lectures on school hygiene and extending the educational programme of educators to include sexology issues, as well as the creation of the Department of Biomedical Foundations of Development and Sexology at the Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw. The author of the article presents Prof. Jaczewski’s publication achievements and his activity as vice-dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as his contribution to the organisation of cooperation with the University of Cologne. The text is enhanced with the author’s memories of Prof. Jaczewski from the 1980s, when the author was a student.

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