TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from June 1998

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from June 1998

Sanjukta Panigrahi: 1944-1997.
June 22, 1998... Sanjukta Panigrahi was a great artist, a founder of tradition, an independent and rebellious woman, an intellectual. Her death, on 24 June I997, came just as she was about to open a school modeled on that of Rukmini Devi, where as a child...

Striptease: desire, mimetic jeopardy, and performing spectators.(Cover Story)
June 22, 1998... Jay Bildstein, an owner of Scores, the Manhattan sports and strip bar, presented a workshop at the exclusive St. Moritz Hotel in New York City entitled "How to Own, Manage, Run or Even Dance in a Topless Bar" (1992). His presentation was...

Undressing the First Amendment and corsetting the striptease dancer.
June 22, 1998... An Anthropologist in Strip Clubs and Courts In a unique way, the stigmatized but poorly understood exotic (also referred to as erotic, striptease, stripper, topless, titty bar, nude, go-go, and barroom) dance clubs are a lightning rod...

Les demoiselles d/L.A.: Sacred Naked Nature Girls' 'Untitled Flesh.'
June 22, 1998... Naming the Identity In a narrative about their company history, Sacred Naked Nature Girls, a multicultural ensemble of four women artists based in Los Angeles, describe an incident that may endure as the mythic origin of their...

Firewalking: a contemporary ritual and transformation.
June 22, 1998... Performances in the magical tradition have revived for many contemporary people the pleasures (and terrors) of personal transformation. Tired of more passive, spectator roles in orthodox religions and secular recreations, many individuals...

Woman, man, dog, tree: two decades of intimate and monumental bodies in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater.
June 22, 1998... You're right in demanding that the artist have a conscious relation to his work, but you are confusing two ideas: solving a problem and posing a problem correctly. --Anton Chekhov, Letters to A.S. Suvorin Choreography...

An event in space: the integration of acting and design in the theater of JoAnne Akalaitis.
June 22, 1998... Whatever [the actor] represents in the play, in the order of time he is representing nobody but himself. How could he? That's his body, doing time. --Herbert Blau Improvisation must be a research activity conducted by...

Program notes on 'Pearls for Pigs.'
June 22, 1998... OK, I could be wrong (just like everybody else), but it might be useful to let you know my current thoughts on what happens in my plays, and specifically, Pearls for Pigs. It's true, there is no "story" in the normal sense. But there is...

A savage performance: Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco's "Couple in the Cage."
June 22, 1998... Theatricality On an island, in the middle of nowhere: (Ruido de avion. El ARQUITECTO, como un animal perseguido y amenazado, busca un refugio [...] Explosion y resplandor de llamas. El ARQUITECTO, con la cabeza contra el suelo y los...

Couple in a Cage.
June 22, 1998... The Couple in the Cage restages repudiated modes of ethnographic knowledge and display. The flyer announcing the video explicitly positions the staging in tabloid terms by faking the front page of the fictional Natural Enquirer. Indeed, the...

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism.
June 22, 1998... From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism. By Philip Auslander. London: Routledge, 1997; 173 pp. $55.00 cloth, $ 15.99 paper. The almost simultaneous appearance of these three works by three leading scholars in the...

Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater.
June 22, 1998... Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater. By Elin Diamond. London: Routledge, 1997; xvi + 226 pp. $70.00 cloth, $18.99 paper. The almost simultaneous appearance of these three works by three leading scholars in the field of...

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories.
June 22, 1998... Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. By Peggy Phelan. London: Routledge, I997; 187 pp. illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. The almost simultaneous appearance of these three works by three leading scholars in the field of...