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On the Origins of Theater
Artikel-Nr:
9783631665701
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
337
Autor:
Miroslaw Kocur
Gewicht:
530 g
Format:
210x148x27 mm
Serie:
4, Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Miroslaw Kocur is Professor at the University of Wroclaw and L. Solski Theater Academy for the Dramatic Arts. His research focuses on studying acting techniques and reconstructing the origins of performing practices.
This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and theater. Scholarship helps us to realize how we have evolved to who we are today and to understand the transformative power of performance. The author proposes to boost and advance theater studies by reviewing new research in anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, classics, ethnography, physics, cognitive science, neuroscience, theater anthropology and performance studies. Referring to his fieldwork in Bali and Tibet, and to his professional experience in theater, the author explains the role of bipedality, toolmaking and trance in the evolution of the performer, examines the performativity of space and writing, and argues that ancient culture emerged from dance.
This book presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the emergence of the actor and the theater. It explains the role of bipedality, toolmaking and trance in the evolution of the performer, examines the performativity of space and writing, and argues that ancient culture emerged from dance.
Contents: Performances in Bali - Wayang kulit - Cremation - Trance - Mask - Bipedality - Gesticulation - Mirror neurons - Mimesis - Paleoperformances - Tools - Extended mind - Burying the dead - Chauvet cave - Lascaux - Göbekli Tepe - Çatalhöyük - Theater of Dionysus - Emergence of writing, dance, transformation, actor - Tibet.