TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from December 1997

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from December 1997

Performative politics and international media. (media coverage of the Tiananmen Square uprising)(Editorial)
December 22, 1997... In the winter of 1989, a few months after the Chinese Army's bloody crackdown around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, TDR published an editors' Comment entitled "Public Demonstrations and Secret Politics in China" (TDR 33, 4 [T124]). This article...

Antonin Artaud and the impossible theatre: the legacy of the Theatre of Cruelty.
December 22, 1997... The Utopia of a Theatre of Cruelty In August 1946 Antonin Artaud, having returned to Paris after nine years' internment in a psychiatric hospital, wrote the preface--preambule--to his collected works, which were to be published by...

Jan Fabre: Belgian theatre magician.
December 22, 1997... The critics called out: Beware of charlatans, magicians, and gurus in the theatres! Beware of the critics, came the resounding echo, the critics who left the theatre of the Flemish artist and director Jan Fabre in protest and spilled their...

Stuff. (drama)
December 22, 1997... Introduction In 1996, we decided to create a performance that dealt with Latin women, food, and sex. We started with our own stories. Nao is from an immigrant farmworker family that was involved in the Chicano political struggles of...

Invoking "the native:" body politics in contemporary Hawaiian tourist shows.
December 22, 1997... In the late 1950s I was growing up outside of Washington, D.C. Vividly, I remember dancing around in the living room one day until I crashed into a side table and left a dent in the wall. The song was "The Hukilau," ("Oh, we're going to the...

Performing/annihilating the word: body as erasure in the visions of a Florentine mystic. (Saint Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi)
December 22, 1997... The object of this study is a unique case in the history of Western spirituality. I colloqui (The Dialogues), the transcriptions of the mystical monologues of Saint Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607), questions the meaning of...

An amulet made of memory: the significance of exercises in the actor's dramaturgy.
December 22, 1997... The Revolution of the Invisible In the 20th century a revolution of the invisible has taken place. The importance of hidden structures was disclosed in physics as in sociology, in psychology as in art and myth. A similar revolution also...

The ant and the stone: learning Kutiyattam. (Indian theater)
December 22, 1997... Introduction Within the framework of our four-year project, "The Meeting," Parate Labor studied the basic techniques and elements of the old Sanskrit theatre form kutiyattam at the Ammanur Chachu Chackyar Smaraka Gurukulam in...

Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre.
December 22, 1997... By Naomi Conn Liebler. London and New York: Routledge, 1995; 266 pp. $69.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. Naomi Conn Liebler's Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre, Joseph Roach's Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic...

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England.
December 22, 1997... By Stephen Orgel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; 179 pp.; illustrations. $49.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. Naomi Conn Liebler's Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre, Joseph Roach's Cities of the Dead:...

Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance.
December 22, 1997... By Joseph Roach. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996; 328 pp.; illustrations. $49.50 cloth, $17.50 paper. Naomi Conn Liebler's Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre, Joseph Roach's Cities of the Dead:...

Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776-1829.
December 22, 1997... By Ellen Donkin. London: Routledge, 1995; 256 pp.; illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. These two books exemplify the "now you see it, now you don't" history of women's writing for the stage. Using the past tense, Ellen Donkin...

Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Adrienne Scullion. London and Vermont: Everyman, 1996; 566 pp. $10.50 paper. These two books exemplify the "now you see it, now you don't" history of women's writing for the stage. Using the past tense, Ellen Donkin explains...

Moving Words: Re-writing Dance.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Gay Morris. London: Routledge, 1996; 343 pp.; illustrations. $59.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Any anthology, by virtue of its tension between unity and diversity (of authors' goals, methods, topics, and so forth), charts the debates...

Individuality and Expression: The Aesthetics of the New German Dance, 1908-1936.(Brief Article)
December 22, 1997... By Dianne S. Howe. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996; 312 pp.; illustrations. $53.95 cloth. Before the early 20th-century German "dance of expression" was dubbed Ausdruckstanz in 1928, it was variously called New Dance, New Artistic...

Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine: From Vaudeville to the Ziegfeld Follies.(Brief Article)
December 22, 1997... By Barbara Stratyner. New York: Society of Dance History Scholars, 1996; 125 pp.; illustrations. $21.95 paper. This is the 13th volume of "Studies in Dance History," a semiannual monographic series published by the Society of Dance History...

A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance.(Brief Article)
December 22, 1997... Edited by Carol Martin. London: Routledge, 1996; 311 pp.; illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This is the newest of TDR's "Worlds of Performance" anthology series, edited by TDR editor Richard Schechner. Carol Martin (New York...

The Theater of the Bauhaus.(Brief Article)
December 22, 1997... Edited by Walter Gropius and Arthur S. Wensinger. Translated by Arthur W. Wensinger. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press/PAJ Books, 1996; 109 pp.; illustrations. $14.95 paper. PAJ Books editors Bonnie Marranca and Gautam...