The New Jerusalem Light Rail Train as a Performance Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Keyword(s):  
Light Rail ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
A Performance

‘I Like to Be a Swell’: Paupers at the Pantomime

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Kirsten Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
A Performance

In January 1866, journalist James Greenwood entered the Lambeth Workhouse disguised as a vagrant. Greenwood's account of his experience inspired a host of imitators, and inaugurated a mania for slum journalism. Critics have noted the voyeurism and the homoerotic subtext of Greenwood's ‘A Night in a Workhouse', but the impact of Victorian popular theatre on his narrative has received scant attention. This essay recuperates the links between workhouse and theatre: examining paupers' reception, criticism, and appropriation of popular forms of entertainment such as the pantomime and the music hall song, analysing the representation of the workhouse on the Victorian stage, and finally proposing the concept of the workhouse itself as a performance space. Greenwood provides a valuable source of information about the theatregoing habits of the houseless poor, the most marginalised demographic within audiences at the Victorian theatre.

The Yiddish Art Theatre in Paris after the Holocaust, 1944–1950

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-371
Author(s):  
Nick Underwood
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Small Cohort ◽  
A Performance

Almost as soon as Paris was liberated from Nazi Occupation on 25 August 1944, Yiddish actors took back the stages on which they had once performed. In fact, on 20 December 1944, while war and the Holocaust still raged, a small cohort of actors produced what they advertised in the Naye prese as the “first grand performance by the ‘Yiddish folks-bine.’” This performance was to take place at the four-hundred-seat Théâtre Lancry, a performance space located in Paris's 10th arrondissement, not far from the Place de la République and the Marais. “Lancry,” as it was known, had played host to Yiddish theatre as early as 1903 and, during the interwar years, it was the center of Parisian Yiddish cultural activity: dozens of theatre performances occurred there and it was where the Kultur-lige pariz was based, among other institutions. During the postwar years, it also went by the name Théâtre de la République after 1947 and Théâtre du Nouveau-Lancry after 1951, but many still referred to it simply as “Lancry.”

A Performance-Based Representation for Engineering Design

1999 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhu ◽  
David Kazmer
Keyword(s):  
Linear System ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Design Representation ◽  
Pareto Optimal Set ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
System Characterization ◽  
Transformation Algorithms ◽  
Optimal Set ◽  
A Performance

A design representation is developed to model multi-attribute systems utilizing multi-dimensional clipping and transformation algorithms. Given a linear system characterization, three types of supporting information is generated for the decision maker: (1) a function matrix that describes the performance attributes dependent upon the decision variables; (2) a decision space that corresponds to the feasible decision set that meets performance requirements, and; (3) a performance space that represents the feasible performance region and the Pareto Optimal set. The analytical method developed for solving these feasible spaces is described for a linear system model. A case study is presented to demonstrate how to utilize the representation to locate a feasible solution and proceed to the desired trade-off of multiple attributes. Moreover, the potential incorporations of the representation with other influential design methodologies are discussed.

scholarly journals On the Design Synthesis of Multistable Equilibrium Systems

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey W. King ◽  
Matthew I. Campbell ◽  
Joseph J. Beaman
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Potential Energy Curve ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Energy Curve ◽  
Stable Configuration ◽  
Stable States ◽  
Design Synthesis ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Equilibrium Configurations ◽  
A Performance

Multistable equilibrium (MSE) systems are a type of adaptable system that can have multiple mechanical configurations requiring no power to maintain the stable configurations. Thus, power is only needed to move among the stable states, and each stable configuration represents a level of adaptability. Since stable equilibrium configurations can be defined by potential energy minima, we base the design of MSE systems on shaping the potential energy curve at desired equilibrium configurations. This view allows one to construct a performance space defined by how well candidate systems meet a desired potential energy curve. By using a Monte Carlo mapping to link the performance space to the design space in tandem with stochastic optimization methods, the designer determines whether or not a certain system topology can be designed as a MSE system. Qualitative and quantitative mapping procedures enable the designer to decide whether or not the desired design lies near the center or periphery of a performance space. This dictates how the optimization is to be executed which in turn informs the designer as to whether or not a feasible limit in the system performance has indeed been reached.

DINAMIKA KEHIDUPAN TAYUB ATAU TAYUBAN DALAM MASYARAKAT DAN KEBUDAYAAN INDONESIA - JAWA

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darmoko
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Good Effort ◽  
West Java ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Special Region ◽  
A Performance

Tayub or tayuban widespread until at least four provinces, namely Central Java, East Java, West Java, and Yogyakarta Special Region. Based on the type of rhythm, nuance, or character, consisting of  tayub grengseng (angkleng), tayub grengseng (arum manis), tayub grengseng (kijing miring), tayub grengseng (ketawang puspawarna),  tayub jepon (gunungsri),  tayub jepon (wolu-wolu), tayub jepon (cao glethak), tayub si Kucing, tayub Surobayan, tayub tawang mangu, and  tayub suwe ora jamu. This article trying outlines how the dynamics of life tayub or tayuban in Indonesia especially Java today.The art of dance in tayub regarding how a character speaks, being, and acting in conjunction with another character in a performance. Space dimensions concerning symmetry, asymmetry, balance, variety, contrast, and protrusion while the time dimension    associated with rhythm, aritme, tempo, and also balance, variety, contrast, and protrusion. As well as the dance performances, tayub or tayuban require reference aesthetic value: sem, nges, greget, and banyol. Arrangement of makeup and fashion shaped in such a way that the actor can portray a certain character in art tayub. Structuring the lights and the stage is a unity that creativity coordinated with other aspects of the firm, so that the stage had been set in accordance with the scene shown (right background).The results of the discussion of  "Dynamics of Life Tayub or Tayuban  in Society and Culture of Indonesia - Java" can be formulated as follows: ( 1 ) Art tayub or tayuban still has powerful functions, positive, constructive towards Indonesian society, especially in Java; (2 ) Art tayub up now has a function, either as a means of ritual ( ceremony ), vows or nadar, togetherness, education, communication, and entertainment; ( 3 ) Necessary raising funds good effort from central and local government as well as private sectors to support conservation efforts tayub or tayuban the art performed both at the sanggar and perwadahan; ( 4 ) the existence tayub or tayuban art scattered in various provinces, both in West Java, Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta Special Region is the wealth of local arts flourish in Indonesia. Keywords : dynamics, tayuban, Java

The transcultural body: Kolkata re-membered

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Nigel Ward
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
British Council ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Intercultural Performance ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski ◽  
A Performance

This article explores the tensions that surround the effort to make intercultural performance. In particular it draws on the author’s experience of making a cross-cultural devised theatre project for the British Council in India, working with Indian performers and largely western devising techniques. This is contextualized by a discussion of the work of some key practitioners in this area, such as Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski and Tatsumi Hijikata. Barba’s notion of ‘travellers of speed’ is discussed, as is the critique of such ideas by Phiip Zarilli, among others. The attempt to make a performance space that transcends culture is contrasted with the experience of making performance in a context where cultural specificity is written through every aspect of the work and expresses itself within the bodies of the performers themselves.

A Performance-Based Representation of Constraint Based Reasoning and Decision Based Design

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhu ◽  
David Kazmer
Keyword(s):  
Parametric Design ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Pareto Optimal Set ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
Beam Design ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
Transformation Algorithms ◽  
Decision Based Design ◽  
Optimal Set ◽  
A Performance

Abstract A performance-based representation is developed utilizing multi-dimensional clipping and transformation algorithms. Given analytic performance functions, three types of supporting information is presented to the decision maker: 1) a function matrix that describes the performance attributes varying with the decision variables; 2) a decision space that illustrates the feasible decision set that meets performance requirements, and; 3) a performance space that provides the feasible performance region and the Pareto Optimal set. The performance-based representation is compatible with other influential design methodologies. A case study is presented for aircraft beam design utilizing constraint based reasoning and decision based design. The results demonstrate not only the benefit of the representation on interactive parametric design, but also an intriguing comparison between constraint based reasoning and decision based design approaches incorporated with the described representation. While a linearized parametric design problem is implemented, the approach shows a potential extension to non-linear systems.

The Way We Perform Now

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way ◽  
A Performance

This piece is adapted from a lecture delivered in the “Performing Institutions” series curated by Artists Space with the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The event also included David Velasco of Artforum as well as Sarah Michelson, who had just become the first choreographer to win the Bucksbaum Award for the best work presented at the Whitney Biennial. Artists Space represented the Performing Institutions series in the following terms: “Taking as its starting point the 2012 Whitney Biennial's allocation of the fourth floor Emily Fischer Landau Galleries as a performance space for music, dance, theater, and participatory programming, this series of talks consider the status of performance and ‘virtuosity’ within the parameters of an institutional public sphere. Does this turn toward ‘activity without end product’ potentially shift entrenched relations between institution and artist, artwork and viewer, or reinforce a contemporary experience of totalizing social production?”

scholarly journals Caribbean Contemporary Poets and Graphic Artists Moored at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Spencer Matz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
A Performance

The Teatrino del Mondo of Aldo Rossi, a performance space set on a barge that could be reached by boat (1979-80), became an iconic metaphor for the first Venetian Biennale of Architecture. At the Venetian Biennale of Architecture 2018, this metaphorical representation was engaged by Caribbean contemporary poets Lasana M. Sekou and Charles Matz II and visual artists Cozbi Sanchez Cabrera and Jean-Ulrick Désert. In exploring ties that link the vessels of Caribbean contemporary literature and art to Venice, witness is the audacity of their opera, created while confronting intensifying natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and recalling horrifying unnatural conditions of Slavery and war. The artists participated in collateral events in which poetry or visual art intersected marvellously with Venetian idioms.

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