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Rachel's brain and other storms : Rachel Rosenthal : performance texts / edited and with commentaries by Una Chaudhuri.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O84126 R33 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenthal, Rachel, 1926-2015.
- Series:
- Critical performances
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance art.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Summary:
- Rachel Rosenthal is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of feminist and ecological performance art. Her revolutionary performance technique integrates text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive costuming, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an unforgettable theatre experience. In the last twenty years she has presented over thirty-five pieces nationally and internationally. She has been critically ranked with Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, Ping Chong, Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. Her work is passionately dedicated to interrogating, illuminating and improving the relationship between human beings and the planet we share with so many other species. Her performances explore and embody the long history and urgent future of this deeply troubled relationship and use viscerally compelling performance to draw us into a direct experience of the beauty and power of our lives in nature. Rachel's Brain and Other Storms presents a number of Rachel Rosenthal's key performance scripts, together with a critical introduction and commentaries by Una Chaudhuri.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Instant Rachel 1
- Charm (1977) 15
- The Death Show (1978) 33
- My Brazil (1979) 43
- Leave Her in Naxos (1981) 55
- Commentary: Presenting the Past 66
- Soldier of Fortune (1981) 69
- Traps (1982) 83
- L. O. W. in Gaia (1986) 95
- Rachel's Brain (1987) 115
- Commentary: Mindscapes and Escapes from Mind 134
- Gaia, Mon Amour (1983) 139
- Amazonia (1990) 161
- Pangaean Dreams (1990) 175
- Commentary: Freaks of Nature 197
- filename: FUTURFAX (1992) 201
- Grand Canyon (1978) 221
- Commentary: Performing Futurehope 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232).
- ISBN:
- 0826448968
- 0826448976
- OCLC:
- 45375411
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