memory place identity

Hello,

I'm attaching the short piece I mentioned the other evening regarding theatricalty & special effects, and discusses this in terms of place (not unpacked in much detail but still...)

We also discussed Rebecca Schneider as a performance studies scholar who may have some useful writing or references concerning body, movement, memory and place. http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Rebecca_Schneider, and Peggy Phelan, who writes about performance memory and identity among other things.

Much of theatrical/performance studies on memory and identity are of the 'molar' variety (cultural identity, mourning, trauma, etc.) which I don't think is really what you're after, but there may be something useful nonetheless.  I came across this bibliography, though its more sound focused: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/music.htm;

My friend Ofer Ravid is a grad student working on Theatre and Phenomenology and has a draft of his lit. review on his blog. http://theatre-phenomenology.blogspot.com/ Some of his works cited might be useful, I'm not sure:

Works Cited

Farleigh, Sondra. “A Vulnerable Glance: Seeing Dance through Phenomenology.” Dance Research Journal, 23.1, (1991): 11-16.

Garner, Stanton B. Jr. Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1994.

Heidegger, Martin. “The Age of the World Picture”. In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. NewYork: Harper & Row, 1977.

---. “The Fundamental Discoveries of Phenomenology, its Principle, and the Clarification of its Name.” In Moran, Dermot and Timothy Mooney eds. The Phenomenology Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Husserl, Edmund. “Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body.” And “The Constitution of Psychic Reality through the Body.” In Don, Welton (ed.) The Body: Classic and Conte,porary Readings. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Jones, Amelia. Body/Art: Performing the Subject. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962.

---. The Visible and the Invisible. Ed. Claude Lefort. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1968

Moran, Dermot and Timothy Mooney eds. The Phenomenology Reader. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Rayner, Alice. Ghosts: Death's Double and the Phenomena of Theatre. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 2006.

States, Bert O. Great Reckonings in Little Rooms: On the Phenomenology of Theater. Berkeley: U. of California P., 1985.

Wilshire, Bruce. Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982.

Young, Iris Marion. On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays. New York: Oxford UP, 2005.

Zarrilli, Phillip B. "Toward a Phenomenological Model of the Actor's Embodied Modes of Experience." Theatre Journal 56.4 (2004): 653-66.

Artaud/Grotowski inspired techniques may be of use in terms of thinking experimental body-centered approaches, although the books on this aren't great.  We discussed Peter Brooks The Empty Space although I don't think that really chronicles experiments that I can recall.  A lot of theatre 'warm-up' and 'group-building' exercises are about changing relationships to space/others, so could be a good place to mine for ideas for generating your own experiments.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.
Cheers,
Jen
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