The Call of the Dolphin in God’s Ear (or how is the theatre making the invisible, visible)

Abstract Starting from the assumption that a dialogue of the means of expression specific to various arts should aspire, in the theatrical representation, to symbiosis, I’m looking at the performance with Job’s Butcher’s Shop, by Fausto Paravidino, directed by Radu Afrim, performance which recently had its openingnight at the National Theatre in Iaşi. I’m referring to the confluence of live music, acting and video images, proposing possible connexions and echoes one might consider.

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Staging the invisible: The crisis of visibility in theatrical representation

Text and Performance Quarterly ◽

10.1080/10462939409366075 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 97-107 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Janelle Reinelt

Keyword(s):

Theatrical Representation ◽

The Invisible

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Computing cell tractions from particle displacements on silicone rubber substrata

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100168542 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 162-163

Author(s):

Tim Oliver ◽

Akira Ishihara ◽

Ken Jacobsen ◽

Micah Dembo

Keyword(s):

Plane Stress ◽

Linear Elasticity ◽

Silicone Rubber ◽

Mathematical Analysis ◽

Elastic Recovery ◽

Video Images ◽

Cell Traction Forces ◽

Latex Beads ◽

Cell Traction ◽

Better Than

In order to better understand the distribution of cell traction forces generated by rapidly locomoting cells, we have applied a mathematical analysis to our modified silicone rubber traction assay, based on the plane stress Green’s function of linear elasticity. To achieve this, we made crosslinked silicone rubber films into which we incorporated many more latex beads than previously possible (Figs. 1 and 6), using a modified airbrush. These films could be deformed by fish keratocytes, were virtually drift-free, and showed better than a 90% elastic recovery to micromanipulation (data not shown). Video images of cells locomoting on these films were recorded. From a pair of images representing the undisturbed and stressed states of the film, we recorded the cell’s outline and the associated displacements of bead centroids using Image-1 (Fig. 1). Next, using our own software, a mesh of quadrilaterals was plotted (Fig. 2) to represent the cell outline and to superimpose on the outline a traction density distribution. The net displacement of each bead in the film was calculated from centroid data and displayed with the mesh outline (Fig. 3).

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