A History of Collective Creation [electronic resource] /
Syssoyeva, Kathryn Mederos.author.
Proudfit, S.editor.
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The first wave. From monastic cell to Communist cell: groups, communes, and collectives, 1900-1945 / KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA -- Revolution in the theatre I: Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and collective creation, Russia, 1905 / KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA -- Reduta's reorigination of theatre: radical collectivity in Poland's interwar theatre laboratory / KRIS SALATA -- The accidental rebirth of collective creation: Jacques Copeau, Michel Saint-Denis, Léon Chancerel and improvised theatre / JANE BALDWIN -- Collective creation in documentary theatre / ATTILIO FAVORINI -- The second wave. Crossroads and confluence: collective creation, 1945-1985 / SCOTT PROUDFIT and KATHRYN MEDEROS SYSSOYEVA -- Collective creation as a theatre of immanence: Deleuze and The Living Theatre / LAURA CULL -- Something queer at the heart of it: collaboration between John Cage and Merce Cunningham / MICHAEL HUNTER -- Shared space and shared pages: collective creation for Edward Albee and the playwrights of the Open Theater / SCOTT PROUDFIT -- Against efficiency: the Théâtre du Soleil's experimental relations of production / DAVID CALDER -- From Mao to the Feeling Circle: the limits and endurance of collective creation / VICTORIA LEWIS -- Who's in charge?: the collective nature of early Chicano theatre / JORGE A. HUERTA -- Collective creation in Quebec: function and impact / JEAN-MARC-LARRUE.
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.
Performing arts.
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