- Title
- The politics of interweaving performance cultures
- Creator
- Krueger, Anton
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225719
- Identifier
- vital:49252
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2015.1014170"
- Description
- According to the former president of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Brian Singleton, the study of ‘[i]nterculturalism as a practice and a theory gained currency with Richard Schechner’s anthropologically-inspired new discipline of performance studies’ (p. 79). Schechner’s new discipline led to the formation of the annual Performance Studies International (PSI) conferences, and earlier this year I attended the twentieth instalment in Shanghai, which was held under the rubric of ‘Tradition and the Avant-Garde’. One of the things which struck me was the extent to which the (relatively) newly economically empowered Chinese theatre makers were creating grand productions based on Western theatre traditions. For example, many of the presentations for delegates were based on Western texts (such as Hamlet, Miss Julie and even a play by Woody Allen). And yet these productions were performed in Mandarin, using purist Chinese forms, such as Beijing Opera. During the discussions there seemed to be an awkward defensiveness from some of the Chinese hosts who insisted they were not ‘copying’ Western theatre, but that they were using it to express a pure Chinese aesthetic. There were also other performances at the conference, such as a series of parables called Confucius Disciples, which told didactic tales with content very foreign to a Western audience. A visiting troupe from Bulgaria presented their own version of some of these parables, using a strongly East European aesthetic to convey a Chinese message. In this way, experiments with cultural forms and content were clearly foregrounded by the conference presentations.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (7 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Molecular Structure, Krueger, A., 2015. The politics of interweaving performance cultures: beyond postcolonialism, Erika Fischer-Lichte (Ed.): book review. SATJ: South African Theatre Journal, 28(1), pp.94-99, Journal of Molecular Structure volume 28 number 1 p. 94 2015 2163-7660
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- Rights
- Open Access
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