Grotowski's bridge made of memory : embodied memory, witnessing and transmission in the Grotowski work / Dominika Laster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laster, Dominika, author.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Enactments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grotowski, Jerzy, 1933-1999--Criticism and interpretation.

Grotowski, Jerzy.

Grotowski, Jerzy, 1933-1999.

Experimental theater--Poland--20th century.

Experimental theater.

Theater--Production and direction--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theater--Production and direction.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Poland.

Physical Description:

xviii, 163 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2016.

Summary:

One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowski's career. In Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory, Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowski's work such as body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, verticality, and transmission, arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate blurring of the boundaries of the self and other. This comprehensive study traces key thematic threads across all phases of Grotowski's research, examining lesser-known aspects of his praxis such as performance compositions structured around African and Afro-Caribbean traditional songs and ritual movement, as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition. As an active process of research and questioning conducted through the "body-being" of the performer, the Grotowski work is a practical realization of the often highly theoretical and abstract discussions of one of the field's main preoccupations: embodied practice as a way of knowing.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Embodied Memory: Grotowski's Work on Personal and Ancestral memories 21

Chapter 2 Czuwaj (Be Vigilant) Vigilance and Witnessing in the Grotowski Work 57

Chapter 3 Grotowski's Ladder Making the Archaic Vertical Connection 93

Chapter 4 'Let Metakeyoutothe Land of Your Ancestors' Grotowski and Transmission 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

0857423177

9780857423177

OCLC:

931998534

Publisher Number:

99965854131