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Theater History 1929

TD 226 Spring 2011 - 1929 Study Sheets

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Modernism - Search for truth - Zola: truth not observable and universal - Abandon romantics - Abstraction to see truth - Subjectivity / Spirituality to get truth - Truth in symbols, legends, myths, moods - No truth in reality
Music Drama: Gesamtkunstwerk - Wagner - Shakespeare + Beethoven - Master art work: all coherent - Overseeing it all
Symbolism - Late 1880-1890 - Mallarme - Theatre d’art - Theatre de l’oeuvre - Jarry’s Ubu Roi - Symbols as a tool
Futurism - Italy - Rejecting the past - Technology, mechanism, industrial - Synthetic drama
Surrealism - Breton - Dali-esque - Automatism – dictate your subconscious thought - Subconscious represents truth
Theater of Cruelty - Artaud - Theatre Alfred Jarry - Cruelty to shatter our false perceptions of reality - Show the audience the truth they didn’t want to see
Modernist Design - Adolphe Appia - Modern perceptions of performance space and lighting - 3 Conflicting Visual Elements: - 3D Actor - Perpendicular scenery - Horizontal Floor
Theatrical Syndicate - Theatrical Monopoly 1896 - New York and Philadelphia - Reduced theater to the mainstream - Eliminated variety - Due to abuses led to the establishment of unions
Little Theater Movement - Professional leadership - Amateur actors - Rose due to theatrical syndicate - New plays - Less commercial - Want for variety - Blossomed into the 1920s
Federal Theater Project - 1935 – 1939 - gov’t funded movement for the arts
Works Progress Administration - Put people to work - Gov’t control over what was seen, done, and produced - Hallie Flanagan - Controversies due to political content and censorship ended the program
Trifles - Glaspell - Based on true story - Deception - Men and women - Silence
Loie Fuller - Fabrics and colored lighting
Isadora Duncan - Free and natural movement - Uncorseted - Legitimization of dance as high art
Ruth St. Denis - Dance as Cultural Translation - Vaudeville and theatrical techniques in serious dance
Martha Graham - Contraction and release - American Themes
Doris Humphrey - Fall and Recovery - Tension and Release - Choreographic method in a book - Full ensemble no solo - Relationship btw music and dance - Dance in Rational and Emotional extremes (Appollonian / Dionysian)
Group Spirits - Group energy developing - Bold specific gestures linked dancers with emotion - Spacing as architectural aesthetic
Langston Hughes - Poet - Soul Gone Home - Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance - New Negro Movement
Lafayette Players - Anita Bush - African American Companies long term jobs - Shifted the economic structure of AA Theater
Federal Theater Project: Negro Unit - 23 cities - 75 productions - Haitian, Voodoo, Macbeth
Gene Genet - French - The Maids - Meta theater
Expressionism German Experimentation 1910 The scream Human Emotions and attitudes in inanimate objects Truth in spiritual qualities Inner element of the work Not realism/naturalism/or external reality Distorted lines, Abnormal coloring, Mechanical Protagonists ey
Epic Theater - Erwin Piscator - 1920 - Lack of money - Out of the world war - Revolutionary ends
Brecht - Epic Theater - Sociological view - Good Woman of Szechwan 1938
Verfremdungseffekte - Alienation / distancing effect - No familiarity - Remind the audience this is a play - Playing with the emotions of audience - 3D Developed characters - Denied attachment to them
Automatism Dictate your subconscious thought
Andre Breton Surrealist Surrealist Manifesto
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