TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from March 22 2001

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from March 22 2001

Announcement.(Stephanie Marlin-Curiel wins Student Essay Contest)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... 2000 Student Essay Contest Winner The winner of TDR's 11th annual Student Essay Contest is Stephanie Marlin-Curiel with "Rave New World." Marlin-Curiel is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. Her essay...

Somewhere between Corporate Multiculturalism and the Mainstream Bizarre (a border perspective).
March 22, 2001... "Gomez-Pena, you are trapped in between the currents of the global and the concrete. Make up your mind!" --Mexican journalist Intro (Soundbed by Tha Mexakinz, scratched & mixed with 1950s boleros) In the last three years of...

ZONE.(Play)
March 22, 2001... Introduction When I wrote and presented ZONE in 1994 at UCLA, a few days after the earthquake, I wanted to comment on the contemporary world of "Them vs. Us" that I felt was a clear and present danger to our society and our species. I...

Sleeping with Cake and other affairs of the heart.(performance art)
March 22, 2001... In a volume beyond its means, the modest black CD player pumps out "I can't fight this feeling any longer, I guess I'm still afraid to let it show..." The glitter ball turns, dazzling in the red light. Five men and women, charmingly dressed...

Olfactory Performances.(aroma in theatrical representations)
March 22, 2001... The smells of Western culture attenuated for much of the 20th century; modern sanitation reduced "bad" odors in daily life, while changing values diminished the rich use of scents for special occasions, such as religious rituals and...

Looking at Records(1).(music as a material form)
March 22, 2001... Intellectual property expert Paul Goldstein predicts that, in the very near future, recorded music and other entertainment commodities will be distributed by means of a system he calls the "Celestial Jukebox," which he describes as "a...

Professing Performance.(institutionalization of performance studies)
March 22, 2001... Disciplinary Genealogies In 1905, Professor George Lyman Kittredge, Chairman of the English department at Harvard University, dropped a note to his colleague Professor George Pierce Baker. The latter had been concerned that one of...

Performing the Goddess.(religious drama in Bengal, India)
March 22, 2001... Sacred Ritual into Professional Performance The Mother is coming! The Mother is coming! The Mother is coming! Bearing a basket of the deadly pox on her head, to village after village, comes the mother of all the poxes, Devi Sitala....

Performing the Goddess.(video of Indian religious drama)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The photo essay that follows is part of a documentary project that will include five other master artists. These performers, like Chapal Bhaduri and countless other aging artists, have found themselves out of sync with the times. No longer...

The Debate with Space.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Translator's note: "The Debate with Space" (Le debat avec l'espace) was first published in Valere Novarina's Devant la parole (Paris: P.O.L., 1999). It is a prolongation of a conversation that took place between the author and Pascale...

Tanzanian Theatre.
March 22, 2001... From Marx to the Marketplace The scene was the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam on a hot and humid late November day, 1999. The event was a celebration to mark the 150 years since the first publication of the Finnish epic, the...

National Erotica.(perpetuation of social stereotypes through portrayals of sexuality and gender identity in dance performances in Tanzania)
March 22, 2001... The Politics of "Traditional" Dance in Tanzania The stubborn persistence of the "primitive" and "erotic" African stereotype provides rich terrain for ongoing explorations and interrogations. "[T]he stereotype," Homi K. Bhabha declares,...

New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia.(Review)
March 22, 2001... New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia. By John Russell Brown. New York and London: Routledge, 1999, 211 pp; illustrations. $21.99 paper. In this new exploration of the intersection of Shakespeare and Asian theatrical...

Noh Performance Guides: Matsukaze, Fujito, Miidera, Tenko, Atsumori, Ema, Aoinoue.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Noh Performance Guides: Matsukaze, Fujito, Miidera, Tenko, Atsumori, Ema, Aoinoue. By Monica Bethe and Richard Emmert. Tokyo: National Noh Theater, 1992-1997; illustrations. $20.00-23.00 each, paper. For the better part of the past...