scholarly journals Dialogue of Arts in the Contemporary Theatre. The Rhetoric of Expression in Plastic Arts and in Performing Arts

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-233
Author(s):  
Răzvan Constantin Caratănase
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Over Expression ◽  
Plastic Arts ◽  
The Way

Abstract In the plastic art and not only, colors have significant functions with regard to the perception or even to the symbolism of temperament. In many cultures on various geographical coordinates, the reception and the interpretation of colors is taken into consideration only when they are dynamically distinguished. Various types of expression that make us access various levels of perception, of rhetoric, of candidness, of sensation etc. Looking retrospectively on this empathic theory, generations of estheticians struggled with a large amount of pseudo-problems. This plea over expression (be it facial or gestural) in the context of plastic art or of theatrical art has a particular significance and, of course, it steadies both the receptor and the artist. We see nevertheless that, in the day-to-day life, the expression has a primary, unequivocal sense, and above all one takes into consideration the way in which a plastic artist and an actor treat and interpret reality. Let us not forget that the main attributes of communication are the expressive features. The expressive quality presents a real platform that rises the interest of a plastic artist or actor, because it allows him to grasp and to understand his own experience, which does nothing but contribute to the formal configurative that he will draw up.

scholarly journals Mapping the Canadian landscape : the performing arts and experiential perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Alison Johns
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Specific Time Period ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Performing Art ◽  
The Way

Focusing on a specific time period in Canadian performing art history--from the 1970s through to the late 1990s--this thesis "maps out" three artists' experiences in the landscape and the way these experiences are represented to an audience through performance. Using specific examples from the repertoire of Davida Monk, Paul Thompson, and R. Murray Schafer, I make a case for considering these performing artists as landscape researchers. I suggest that their performances explicitly and implicitly explore foundational questions about the meanings, uses, and affective power of landscape in ways that are analogous to the writings of cultural geographers during the same period. Like Yi-Fu Tuan, John Jakle, Denis Cosgrove and Jay Appleton, these performing artists examine the experience of humans in the landscape and focus on issues of place and space, homeland, and the meaning of landscape. Monk, Thompson and Schafer extend the perspectives of the geographers and bridge important gaps in their ways of knowing landscape.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-295
Author(s):  
SEDA ILTER
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

The sociopolitical turbulence in the recent history of Turkey has radically affected the theatre and performance scene. In a climate of fear and repression, performing arts have been fighting for survival and developing ways to endure the dark times, to achieve freedom of artistic expression and open platforms for critical communication. This collection of articles considers contemporary theatre and performance in Turkey, reflecting on some of the complex issues that practitioners, academics and institutions have faced in the current political environment. Each author presents a part of the complex picture of theatre and performance culture in Turkey, and hopes to start a conversation about this oppressed, yet fertile, artistic landscape.

scholarly journals The Importance of Body Language in Costume Shows

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Jingran Qi
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Core ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

<p align="justify">With the development of the times, costume show has become a common art form. As the core of the fashion show, the fashion model not only shows the characteristics of the clothing itself, but also represents the fashion trend. There are also many categories of clothing models, depending on the style of clothing. As an art show, clothing models need to present the intrinsic qualities and perfect external image. Beautiful appearance is not enough just for models. If models don't have the right body language to show the unique temperament vividly, the clothing models will not have new attainments in clothing for the performing arts. In view of this situation, this paper fully discusses the necessity of the body language of the fashion model in the fashion show and the way of personalized emotion expression.</p>

scholarly journals Performing a Victory in Performing Arts Competitions

2021 ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
Rully Aprilia Zandra
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Winning Strategies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Way

Winning or losing is a natural consequence experienced when participating in an art competition. There is an individual or group that succeeds, then fails in another event or vice versa. But some individuals or groups always win in every competition. To bridge the gap, this research focused on strategies to sustain victory in group dance and traditional music competitions. Data were collected through interviewing, observation, and documentation analysis. Researchers took data before, during and after the competition. The researchers interpreted the data then grouped them according to research questions. Habitus and domination theory were used to analyze the data. Confirmed or negated information was used to find winning strategies. The results of this study indicate that the way to perpetuate victory is to equip students with adequate capital, map out the jury’s tastes, and have a unique art Olympiad class.   Keywords: Competition domination, art strategy, perpetuating victory, performing arts

scholarly journals The Mobile Theatre Movement in India: a Success Story in Assam

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Ina Ross
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Arts Management ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
National School

Taking mobile theatre in Assam as an example, Ina Ross questions in this article how professional, contemporary theatre can be successful in India, where it is considered to be a niche culture and economically precarious. She examines what would be needed for contemporary theatre in India to appeal to all segments of the population and asks how the theatre can compete with its omnipresent big brother, the cinema. A brief historical introduction to the mobile theatre movement is followed by an analysis of recent performances, complemented by interviews conducted with the major players in Assam's mobile theatre movement. The article shows that the success of mobile theatre is not to be found on the stage alone: it is also a social and societal model that is lived and experienced with the audience, and this ultimately is the key to its success. Ina Ross is a cultural manager with a focus on the performing arts. She has held the position of Associate Professor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin, and since 2015 has been teaching arts management at the National School of Drama (NSD) in Delhi. She is the author of Wie überlebe ich als Künstler? (How to Survive as an Artist, 2013).

‘So Many Things Can Go Together’: the Theatricality of John Cage

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Crohn Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Japanese Journal ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
John Cage ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The University

John Cage (1912–1993) is widely regarded as one of the most pervasively influential figures in the arts in the latter half of the twentieth-century. Although best known as a composer, Cage expanded perceptions of what could constitute theatrical performance, and in this essay Natalie Crohn Schmitt assesses the nature and significance of Cage's intermedia performances and their immediate influence on other such work. Natalie Crohn Schmitt's Actors and Onlookers: Theater and Twentieth-Century Scientific Views of Nature (Northwestern UP, 1990) is an analysis of contemporary theatre based on Cage's aesthetics, and essays of hers on Cage have appeared in other journals and in anthologies devoted to the artist. She has previously written in NTQ on Stanislavski (NTQ 8) and on performance theory in its historic moment (NTQ 23). Schmitt is Professor of Performing Arts and Professor of English the University of Illinois at Chicago. This essay was originally published in a slightly different form in Japanese in a Cage commemorative issue of the Japanese journal Music Today.

Trailers as mediatized performances: Investigating the use of promotional videos among Italian contemporary theatre artists

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Brilli ◽  
Laura Gemini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Performance Artists ◽  
Theatre Companies ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the theatre sector, many companies, festivals and theatres have integrated promotional videos into their communication strategies. This recent development is undoubtedly due to the rise of social media and the increasing accessibility of video technologies, but also to the need for theatre companies to publicize their work in a media that combines creative autonomy with economic efficiency. Despite this widespread use, trailers in the performing arts have received little attention in academic literature. This article offers the first, exploratory study on the use of promotional videos in the field of contemporary theatre in Italy and on the connections between the current creation of digital promotional clips and the heritage of the Italian video-theatre. Through in-depth interviews with sixteen of the leading Italian companies, this research aims to bring out the role theatre trailers play for performance artists.

Structure and Methodologies of Research in the Arnoldo Foà Archive

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Rosa Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Main Study ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Fundamental Information ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of

"The focus of this paper is the presentation and description of the Arnoldo Foà archive and its importance as the main documentary source for studying the contemporary actor: through the analysis of the sources contained therein, in fact, it was possible to conduct an in-depth study of theatrical career of Arnoldo Foà. The work is part of the Phd in Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (History of Cinema, Music, Fine and Performing Arts) in Florence, a context in which I carry out a research dedicated to the artistic profile of Arnoldo Foà, protagonist of the theater from the second half of the twentieth century. Starting from the description of the archive in which the research was conducted, some significant examples are examined that can demonstrate how archival sources have managed to reveal unpublished and fundamental information for the study. Furthermore, the value and the high potential that the archive assumes as the main study tool for the performing arts are highlighted. Keywords: contemporary theatre; performing arts; archiving systems; acting; artistic biography; documentary sources; recitative style; historical memory. "

Stage visions and strategies of contemporary performing practices – a broadly conceived analysis of the phenomena at the intersection of theory and practice: Valentina Valentini, Worlds, Bodies, Matters: Theatre of the Late Twentieth Century

Maska ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (175) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Nika Arhar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Complex Field ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The first book in the new series Thinking Through Performance offers a mental feat of a concise survey of numerous performances by various artists and theatrical and philosophical concepts, which the author, Valentina Valentini, also observes within the fields of other disciplines. Three basic lines of investigation bring forth the visions of contemporary theatre worlds, their images and the strategies of their establishment, the expansion of the field while blurring the boundaries between visual art, the performative and new media, as well as the transformation of the actor into the autonomous body of the performer and the body that becomes plural, open, hybrid, space itself. With its in-depth and wide-ranging probing of the key phenomena in contemporary performing arts, its taking into account diverse perspectives, and its fragmentary approach within a complex field, the author has created a productive foundation for new starting-points and understandings in the dialogue between theory and practice.

scholarly journals Differences between literature and arts in the context of language

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet İhsan Kaya
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mental Function ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Plastic Arts ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Way

Branches of art, in a general sense, constitute an integrity with their common traits. Yet, they differ in their functions, form sand capacities. Music has a phonetic construction, which consists of sound. Plastic arts such as architecture, sculpture and painting consist of marble, stone and paint. Literature, on the other hand, consists of words. The key element that separates art branches from each other is the material that is used for each and everyone of them. Due to its unique construction, literature is different from other arts with its multidimensional mental function and with the way it appeals to the senses. In this sense, with its distinctive aspects, literature must be used as a subject in scientific studies. Literature is an intellectual art branch which is built in brain by having kneaded of the elements such as language, structure, content and style. Literature is anthropocentric in everyway. Without a doubt, the key element that makes literature different in many aspects is language. This study investigates literature's differences from other branches of art in the context of its production materials.Keywords: Art, literature, language, differences in literature.

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