Realisms in East Asian Performance
Title | Realisms in East Asian Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Nakamura |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2023-10-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0472903845 |
Existing scholarly discussions of theatrical realism have been predominantly limited to 19th-century European and Russian theater, with little attention paid to wider explorations and alternative definitions of the practice. Examining theater forms and artists from China, Japan, and Korea, Realisms in East Asian Performance brings together a group of theater historians to reconsider realism through the performing arts of East Asia. The book’s contributors emphasize trans-regional conversations and activate inter-Asian dialogues on theatrical production. Tracing historical trajectories, starting from premodern periods through today, the book seeks to understand realisms’ multiple origins, forms, and cultural significances, and examines their continuities, disruptions, and divergences. In its diversity of topics, geographic locations, and time periods, Realisms in East Asian Performance aims to globalize and de-center the dominant narratives surrounding realism in theater, and revise assumptions about the spectacular and theatrical forms of Asian performance. Understanding realism as a powerful representational style, chapters collectively reevaluate acts of representation on stage not just for East Asia, but for theater and performance studies more broadly.
Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance
Title | Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Riley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1997-06-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521570909 |
This work gives an 'inside' view of Chinese theatre and the actor in performance for the first time. It challenges western theatre artists such as Brecht, Grotowski, Barba and Schechner, who have extracted from Chinese theatre elements which might enrich their own theatres. It is based on personal observations of and dialogue with Chinese actors, experiences which were impossible before 1980. Riley's study is well illustrated with photographs and diagrams and is accessible to anyone interested in theatre, even those with no knowledge of Chinese or Chinese theatre.
Classical Dance and Theatre in South-East Asia
Title | Classical Dance and Theatre in South-East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Jukka O. Miettinen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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This lavishly illustrated book provides an introduction to the richtraditions of South-East Asian dance, theatre and puppet theatre. It focusesmainly on classical traditions which are still performed and separate sectionsare devoted to Burma, Thailand, Java, Bali, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Laos.Chinese theatre in the region and the Chinese-influenced theatre of Vietnam arealso discussed.
Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000
Title | Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin J. Wetmore (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | |
Genre | Theater |
ISBN | 9781408177174 |
This ground-breaking survey tracks the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. It considers the shaping power of realism and naturalism, the influence of Western culture, the relationship between theatrical modernisation and social modernisation, and how theatre operates in contemporary Asian society.
East Asia and America
Title | East Asia and America PDF eBook |
Author | Sang-Kyong Lee |
Publisher | Wild Peony (AU) |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Drama |
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From the middle of the nineteenth century, East Asia fell increasingly under the influence of the West. However, at the same time, there was a decided trend in the opposite direction, especially in the realm of theater, the central meeting point of the cultural encounter. While the stimuli and impulses emanating from American drama are sufficiently well documented, there are no thoroughgoing studies on the effects of East Asian theater on drama and theater in America. This relatively neglected aspect of cultural cross-fertilization is investigated in the book. The research is based on the evaluation of interviews and theater visits, and an analysis of historical sources and the relevant works/productions of Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Wilson, and Stephen Sondheim.
Inter-Asia in Motion
Title | Inter-Asia in Motion PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Wilcox |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2023-10-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 100096521X |
This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, from Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde dance collaborations, and from festival dance to dance on screen. Working against the Western-centric category of “Asian dance” and Western-centric theorizations of intercultural performance that foreground “East-West” relationships, each contribution shows how dances in Asia make one another as their key aesthetic references beyond Eurocentric influences, as well as how inter-Asia relations emerge from cultural, geographical, and aesthetic diversity within the region. This book is the first of its kind in both cultural studies and dance studies. It will contribute greatly to readers’ understanding of how performance shapes and transforms the cultural and political dynamics of inter-Asia, with a focus on dance circulations in and across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Dance Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, International Relations and Politics, History, and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.
Transnational Chinese Theatres
Title | Transnational Chinese Theatres PDF eBook |
Author | Rossella Ferrari |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9783030372729 |
This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational model for the analysis of Sinophone theatre cultures and to foreground the mobility and relationality of intercultural performance in East Asia. The research draws on extensive fieldwork, interviews with practitioners, and direct observation of performances, rehearsals, and festivals in Asia and Europe. It offers provocative close readings and discourse analysis of an extensive corpus of hitherto untapped sources, including unreleased video materials and unpublished scripts, production notes, and archival documentation.