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Zusatztext "?an excellent! concise contribution to the field?The book is a welcome addition to any cultural theatre curriculum or! for that matter! any advanced acting program." --Jim Williams! Winona State University! Theatre Journal"Based on theoretical and practical data as well as on personal experience! the author presents a very coherent and readable book which may be of great interest both for experts and laypersons! for theatre scholars and scholars of cultural studies! literature and others." --Susan Mahmody! Theater Forschung"This examination of intercultural performance is - in almost every respect - a very welcome addition to the field. It challenges its readers to rethink assumptions regarding artistic agency! collaboration! and theatrical border-crossing." -- Kathleen M. Gough! University of Glasgow! New Theatre Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar from Rio de Janeiro! with a particular interest in experimental performance. Her articles appear internationally in journals such as?A[l]berto?and?Folhetim (Brazil)!?Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy)!?Didaskalia (Poland)!?Studia Dramatica (Romania)! and?TDR and?Theatre Research International (United States). A professor and chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Macalester College! she is also the author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation (Routledge! 2019). Klappentext Offers an analysis of how the intersection of technique! memory! and imagination inform performance. This study reveals how assumptions based on race or ethnicity are misguiding! trouble definitions of intra- and intercultural practices. Zusammenfassung This book redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural performance. Ultimately, this study reassesses the meanings of intercultural embodiment onstage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. 1.The Cultural Temperature of the Twentieth Century. 2.Race! Culture! and the Myth of the Authentic. 3.Tenuous Boundaries: Intra- and Intercultural Embodiments. 4.Peep Show: The Hidden Lives of the Intercultural Actor. 5.Fictive Realities: Character and the Eye of the Beholder. Afterword: A Theatre of Instabilities. Appendix A: Forgotten Memories in Action: An Interview with Ang Gey Pin. Appendix B: Playing the Invisible: An Interview with Roberta Carreri. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ...
