‘An Old Man Emanating Kindness’: Dario Fo at ISTA, 1996

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
Juliusz Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
International School ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Dario Fo ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

In 1996 the Polish theatre scholar Juliusz Tyszka was present at the gathering of the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) in Copenhagen. Here, Dario Fo – in company with his wife and theatrical partner Franca Rame, also a contributor – was among the few invited to participate in both sessions of the conference: ‘Performers’ Bios: Whispering Winds of Theatre and Dance’ and ‘Theatre in a Multicultural Society’. Though already seventy years old and still in recovery from a recent stroke, Fo was incapable of confining himself to a conventional lecture, but (against his doctor's advice) combined his talk with performing the points he was making, whether imitating the curves of a voluptuous girl or enacting a speech in his universal ‘language’ of ‘gramelot’. He was to live on for another twenty years before his death at the age of ninety on 13 October 2016, outliving Franca Rame by just three years. Juliusz Tyszka, an advisory editor of NTQ and a regular contributor to the journal, is head of the Unit of Performance Studies, Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, Poland.

scholarly journals Transferring differentiation and integration through picking up students’ speech by hip-hop and its appreciation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Janiec
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
International School ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
International Community ◽  
Hip Hop Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
World School ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Janiec Jerzy, Transferring differentiation and integration through picking up students’ speech by hip-hop and its appreciation. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 23–44, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.2. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the Hip-hop based Education (HHBE) and Hip-hop Pedagogy (HHPED) as two accommodating strategies that may be utilized fourishingly to differentiate a teaching-learning process further to integrate learners in any education-like environment, as the example the IB World School No. 006654 International School of Bydgoszcz (ISOB) has been chosen. This is the first study presenting international community in a truly homogeneous society (ca. 98% of Polish inhabitants in their country). The author enlists affirmative methodologies beginning with a hypothesis that the Hip-hop cultureis gaining popularity among adolescents in greater numbers. As a result of observations, interviews and survey he is acquainted with students’ wants and needs. There is a necessity to put them in a bigger picture by analyzing the phenomenon from a historical, sociological, political, economical and intercultural viewpoint on a local (Bydgoszcz’s) and global scale. And finally, the author is describing a use of the aforesaid strategies through transfer skills that are taught in the IB History and Social Studies classes.

Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Geary
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Experimental Performance ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Philosophy And Economics

Considers four of the world’s leading creative restaurants as experimental performance practice. Using ideas from performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy and economics, the book argues that technoemotional restaurants can be understood as both a commodified experience and an artistic and aesthetic practice.

Theatre and Performance at a Time of Shifting Disciplines

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
And Performance

The boundaries of theatre as an academic discipline have never been particularly clear, and its relationship to other disciplines has been the focus of constant struggle and negotiation. This essay traces that negotiation, focusing upon its process in American universities. Competing with literature departments for the study of dramatic texts, American theatre departments drew their own new disciplinary model, based primarily on German Theaterwissenschaft, with emphasis upon the staging history and historical context of dramatic texts. More recently such emerging fields as performance studies and cultural studies have sought to transcend such traditional disciplinary boundaries. Despite some resistance from existing academic and publishing structures, the trend towards the breaking down of these traditional boundaries seems clear. Our academic culture seems headed towards a considerably more fluid organization of its materials of study than the traditional organization into fairly discrete disciplines could offer.

Student Theatre in Poland: Vehicles of Revolt, 1954–57 and 1968–71

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Juliusz Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Student Organization ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
Post War

Polish student theatre was a unique artistic movement in the Soviet post-war empire, with a liberty of expression unparalleled elsewhere in the Soviet bloc. As in every political system, in any country, its creators and its public were students and young intellectuals. These theatre-makers used the umbrella of the Polish Students' Union – a surprisingly democratic institution in a totalitarian political order – and all attempts at their repression were usually appeased by the activists of the student organization, often the friends and supporters of the theatre-makers. After the creation of the Socialist Union of Polish Students these activists became more dependent on the Communist Party, but the Party establishment decided, in the period of the ‘thaw’ (1954–57), that the student artistic movement would be maintained as a kind of artistic kindergarten for avant-gardists and supporters of artistic and political revolt, to let them manifest their beliefs within the well-guarded, limited territory of student cultural centres. However, the young rebels overcame these restrictions and created a focus of artistic opposition which had a wide social and artistic influence, especially during subsequent periods of political crisis. Juliusz Tyszka was himself an activist in the student theatre movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Now an NTQ advisory editor, he is head of the Unit of Performance Studies, Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, Poland.

Music as Performance: Living in the Immaterial World

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Auslander
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Behavior

As a performance scholar and music lover, I find it strange that the fields of theatre and performance studies historically have been reluctant to engage with musical performance. Even as theatrical a musical form as opera is generally excluded from the history of theatre, on the grounds that “the predominant force in opera was the music rather than the words,” as Vera Mowry Roberts, my theatre history professor, puts the case.1 Roberts points to the nonliterary character of music as the reason for the exclusion; I speculate that the perception of music not only as nonliterary but, more broadly, as nonmimetic may seem to place it outside the realm of theatrical representation. While performance-oriented scholars spurn music, music-oriented scholars generally spurn performance. Traditional musicologists remain focused on the textual dimensions of musical compositions, whereas scholars who look at music from the perspective of cultural studies are generally more concerned with audience and reception than with the actual performance behavior of musicians.

National and International School Performance Studies

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Jürgen Baumert ◽  
Olaf Köller
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
International School

‘My Future Plan? To Die’: Grotowski's Last Visit to Wrocław

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-191
Author(s):  
Joanna Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Future Plan ◽  
The Status ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

After fifteen years absence, Jerzy Grotowski returned to Wroclaw on 6 March 1997, for the presentation of an award for his contribution to Polish Culture made by the Cultural Foundation's chairman, Stefan Starczewski. Grotowski was accompanied by his protégé and collaborator, Thomas Richards, and went to great lengths to establish Richards's equal and often major contribution to the laboratory work at Pontedera in Italy, which they had been jointly leading since 1986. This work has eschewed publicity, has never sought an audience, and has only been witnessed by chosen groups of sympathetic experts, who have been felt necessary at times for its validation. Initiated and sustained because of the reputation which had accrued to Grotowski during the various phases of his earlier career, the danger was that it might cease to attract support on the demise of its principal validator – which, as one of Grotowski's replies at the Wroclaw meeting anticipated, sadly occurred last year. By acknowledging the functional and artistic importance of Thomas Richards, Grotowski here establishes the argument for his work – described in detail in Richards's own At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions (Routledge, 1995) – to be continued, as the status of the old master passes to the new. Joanna Ostrowska, who is currently working at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, here offers her own impressions of the Wroclaw meeting.

scholarly journals O potrzebie wspierania rozwoju kompetencji międzykulturowych i medialnych w kształceniu nauczycieli – w poszukiwaniu rozwiązań

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Smoter
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Media ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Smoter Katarzyna, O potrzebie wspierania rozwoju kompetencji międzykulturowych i medialnych w kształceniu nauczycieli – w poszukiwaniu rozwiązań [On the need to support the development of intercultural and media competences in the education of teachers – in search of solutions]. Kultura – Społeczeństwo – Edukacja nr 2(14) 2018, Poznań 2018, pp. 99–109, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2018.14.8. Today, a characteristic feature of life is contact (direct or via media) with “otherness” and the “Other” – ethnically, religiously, nationally. The issue of the links between multiculturalism and the media is essential for education, but it does not seem to be sufficiently taken into account in the formal education of teachers. Therefore, the article addressed the issue of shaping media competences and intercultural competences of teachers, indicating the need to include both these issues in an integral manner. It has become important to consider the dimensions of these competences – cognitive, pragmatic and emotional – as well as to show the issues that should be present in the education of teaching staff. This type of approach seems to meet the requirements relating to the dynamically forming “knowledge-based society and “multicultural society”.

The Orange Alternative: Street Happenings as Social Performance in Poland under Martial Law

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (56) ◽  
pp. 311-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliusz Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Authoritarian Regime ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Confronted with political opposition, an authoritarian regime predictably responds with force – but also with recognition of a knowable enemy. Confronted with anarchy and laughter, it can be caught wrong-footed – as happened in Poland in the aftermath of Martial Law, when a young surrealist, Waldemar Fydrych, self-designated ‘Major’, created what he called the Orange Alternative. In a series of published manifestoes and in the street happenings they proclaimed and recorded, the Orange Alternative tickled the soft underbelly of the Jaruzelski regime, and met with responses ranging from hostility to ostensible sympathy to simple bafflement. Juliusz Tyszka here records the progress of a movement and its moving spirit – who, disillusioned with democracy when it came, exiled himself to Paris to invent alternatives anew. Juliusz Tyszka is a past contributor on Polish theatre to NTQ, who teaches in the Institute of Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

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