scholarly journals Uma Arte do Encontro

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-286
Author(s):  
Éric Vautrin
Keyword(s):  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Open Program ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

RESUMO A partir da abertura para pesquisas dos arquivos da segunda parte da vida de Grotowski, este texto se debruça sobre as concepções de teatro do mestre polonês, nas quais ele o descreve como a arte do encontro. Trata-se, ao mesmo tempo, de colocar essa proposição nas interrogações de uma época e de mostrar como esse encontro é o anátema que reverterá as perspectivas tanto sobre a arte do ator, quanto sobre a criação e as relações teatrais. Enfim, essas pesquisas sobre o teatro como arte do encontro têm continuidade hoje por intermédio do Open Program, um dos dois grupos do Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards e, notadamente, suas criações em torno do poeta americano Allen Ginsberg, autor cuja poesia pretende, da mesma forma, um encontro com o outro e com o mundo.

scholarly journals With and After Grotowski

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-359
Author(s):  
Thomas Richards ◽  
Mario Biagini
Keyword(s):  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski ◽  
Insight Into

In 1996, Jerzy Grotowski changed the name of his Workcenter at Pontedera in Italy to that of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, and it was here that Richards and his associate Mario Biagini developed the Actions that had originated with their thirteen years of close collaboration with Grotowski before his death in 1999. Dies Irae was premiered in 2004. Various research projects led by Richards and/or Biagini include Tracing Roads Across (2003–06) and Open Programme, which began in 2007. Such works as I am America, crafted on the poems of Allen Ginsberg, and Electric Party, both directed by Biagini and first performed in 2009, have emerged from Open Programme. A recently ‘finalized’ work, The Letter (2008), directed by Richards, was the result of a long process of development that passed through three major phases and two differently named Actions, starting in 2003. Richards is the author of At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions (1995) and Heart of Practice (2008), while Biagini has edited, with Antonio Attisani, the three-volume Opere e Sentiere (2007 and 2008). The conversation below is an edited version, in consultation with Richards and Biagini, of their discussion with Maria Shevtsova in November 2008, as part of her ‘Conversations’ series at Goldsmiths, University of London. These last pupils of Grotowski give uncommon insight into the processes of their work together, continuing their generous and open reflections in their responses to questions from members of the audience.

Ginsberg’s Prophetic Guru

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Drug Culture ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
American Poets ◽  
Social Conservatism ◽  
Social Freedoms

For Allen Ginsberg, Blake was more than a poetic influence, he was a spiritual forefather. Blake played an integral role in Ginsberg’s relentless self-fashioning and Ginsberg repeatedly turned to Blake in his search for poetic and social freedoms. Blake became a figurehead of the drug-fuelled psychedelic revolution of which Ginsberg was part. But Ginsberg’s Blakeanism went far beyond the claims of the drug culture towards a more serious and thoughtful poetic engagement with freedom and form, influence and authenticity. Like many of the older generation of American poets, Ginsberg yoked Blake together with Whitman. He saw them as icons of gay and homosocial culture, who debunked the prejudices of social conservatism and advocated an ethic of sexual openness and communality. Blake became an aid to a more affectionate re-envisioning of the myth of America, where tenderness and embrace were a means to positive social action.

‘Art as Vehicle’: Grotowski in Pontedera

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-335
Author(s):  
Carla Pollastrelli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

In this testimony, Carla Pollastrelli charts the main stages leading to Grotowski's settlement in Pontedera in Italy and to the creation of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski. As the Year of Grotowski, supported by UNESCO, draws to a close, her words provide a fitting tribute to a man whose influence has surpassed all geographical boundaries, whether those of his native Poland, adoptive Italy, or place of temporary refuge, the United States. Carla Pollastrelli is the co-director of the Fondazione Pontedera Teatro. Pontedera Teatro. From 1986 to 2000 she was an executive of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski, which in 1996 was renamed the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. She has edited translations of Grotowski's texts in Polish into Italian since 1978, and is the co-editor with Ludwig Flaszen of Il Teatr Laboratorium di Jerzy Grotowski, 1959–1969: testi e materiali di Jerzy Grotowski e Ludwik Flaszen con uno scritto di Eugenio Barba (Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre, 1959–1969: Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwig Flaszen's Texts and Materials and a Text by Eugenio Barba (Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, 2001; second edition, La Casa Usher, 2007) and the collection of Grotowski's texts, Holiday e teatro delle fonti (Holiday and the Theatre of Sources, La Casa Usher, 2006).

scholarly journals A espetacularidade da performance ritual no Reisado do Mulungu (Chapada Diamantina - Bahia)

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloísa Brantes
Keyword(s):  
Chapada Diamantina ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

O ritual de visita do Reisado, prática religiosa do catolicismo rural, se baseia nas relações de troca material/espiritual entre o grupo de devotos e as pessoas visitadas. Os Santos de devoção abençoam as casas através da visita anual do Reisado. Este artigo sobre a dimensão espetacular do corpo nesse ritual focaliza os processos de montagem da performance analisando as interações entre devotos/santos/donos das casas. O ponto de partida é o estudo do Reisado na comunidade negra rural Mulungu (Município de Boninal - Chapada Diamantina/Bahia) desenvolvido através de pesquisa etnográfica e das conexões entre teatro/ritual, traçadas por Jerzy Grotowski no campo da Antropologia Teatral.

scholarly journals Encontro na Universidade de Roma "La Sapienza" ou Sobre o Cultivo das Cebolas

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-332
Author(s):  
Mario Biagini
Keyword(s):  
Jerzy Grotowski

RESUMO O texto é baseado na transcrição, revista pelo autor, de A. R. Ciamara de parte de um seminário ministrado pelo autor, no ano de 2000, na Universidade de Roma "La Sapienza". O texto se articula a partir de questões respondidas por Biagini sobre temas importantes para a compreensão do trabalho do Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. Trata-se a questão do legado de Grotowski, problematiza-se a questão do trabalho sem público e o conceito de ação física. O texto discute, ainda, a função dos cantos vibratórios no trabalho de Grotowski e do Workcenter e discorre sobre a dificuldade de definir e colocar em palavras determinadas dimensões do trabalho. Por fim, o texto se pergunta sobre as relações entre quem faz e quem estuda teatro e sobre o sentido do ofício de ator.

scholarly journals The Unavoidable Suffering in Selected Literary Texts: Poems and Novels

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Nasser Frag
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Main Reflection ◽  
To Come ◽  
Almost All

The unavoidable suffering is an outstanding theme which has its impact to almost all literary texts. Typically, unavoidable suffering is the supreme touchstone in life and literature. Poets used its presence incessantly. They are always conscious of its inevitability. Investigation of this theme gives the reader a panoramic view of vital issues that are unusually linked to some extent with suffering; such as religion, God, nature, love and immortality. In the poems discussed in this study, unavoidable suffering reflects the effect of modern psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism. The main reflection of suffering which is implied in the characters presented reveal the very contradictions, absurdities and complexities of our life. The poets and novelists chosen in this paper portray suffering, as “an abstract force, in an attempt to come to terms with it as well as to fathom it.” (Gurra, 2019, p.5) In the inexorable quest to comprehend it, poets do not offer a final view of suffering because it remains for them the great unknown mystery. This paper, however, is an attempt to meticulously examine and critically analyze the images of suffering in minor characters presented in selected poems. The selected poems are of Robinson Jeffers, Allen Ginsberg, and Maya Angelou. The characters selected from different novels are minor ones. Characters like: Roger Chiilingworth from The Scarlet Letter (1850), Walter Morel from Sons and Lovers (1913), Zeena Frome from Ethan Frome (1911), and Rezia Warren Smith from Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Different kinds of suffering are disscussed in order to gain a better understanding of the writers’ perception of unavoidable suffering as well as to understand the western philosophy of it.

scholarly journals The fundamental concepts of cultural anthropology applied in the theory and practice of the anthropological theater

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Polina Mikhailovna Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski ◽  
Experimental Stage

This article explores the classical terms and concepts of cultural anthropology, which have found practical application in the performances, paratheatrical experiments and actions of the Polish experimental stage director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999) and collectives of the modern anthropological theater that continue the pursuits of Grotowski of the late XX century. The methods and terms of cultural (social) anthropology by A. van Gennep, V. Turner, M. Eliade, B. Malinowski and structural anthropology by C. Levi-Strauss give a better perspective on the specific terminological apparatus of Grotowski, unique practical discoveries of his works, and conceptual basis of theatrical anthropology as one of the paramount phenomena in the development of modern art. This article is first to discuss the problems of the emergence and formation of anthropological methodology as the framework for creating a scientific apparatus for understanding ritual-theatrical forms, as well as practical tool for artistic expression in the theatrical and paratheatrical experiments. Based on the fundamental works of the school of cultural anthropology, the author reveals the key terms of modern anthropological theater. As a result of studying the methods and approaches of cultural anthropology, the author determines the new unique technique of the modern Polish theater ensembles based not on the reconstruction of theatrical forms of the past, but rather reactualization of the mythological structures in the process of creating ritual-theatrical action.

scholarly journals L’ethnoscénologie. Vers une scénologie générale

2010 ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Pradier
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Cette Notion ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

L’ethnoscénologie est une nouvelle ethnoscience (1995) fondée sur la nécessité de maîtriser toute forme d’ethnocentrisme dans l’étude des arts du spectacle vivant placés dans leur contexte historique, culturel et social. La spécificité de l’ethnoscénologie est définie par rapport à l’ethnomusicologie, les performance studies, la théorie de l’ethnodrame (Mars) et l’anthropologie théâtrale (Barba). La définition exploratoire est suivie de l’examen de la notion de pratique performative — dérivée du néologisme introduit par Jerzy Grotowski (1997). Cette notion constitue un outil épistémologique utile pour la constitution d’une scénologie générale. L’auteur soutient qu’il est nécessaire d’abandonner la monodisciplinarité propre aux études théâtrales, d’adopter une perspective transdisciplinaire, en incluant notamment les neurosciences et les sciences cognitives, tout en développant un dialogue entre expertises scientifiques et la connaissance des performers eux-mêmes.

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