Performing Ensemble : Practices, Theatre, and Social Change / Carmen Pellegrinelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pellegrinelli, Carmen, author.

Series:

Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives ; 15.

Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives ; 15

Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Practices, Theatre, and Social Change

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book presents a novel analysis supporting the idea that a theatre ensemble is not just an entity but an emergent process. Through the lens of a theatre company's performative, creative, organizational, and activist practices, the ensemble is conceptualized in its collective becoming. This socio-historical and new materialist analysis of a European theatre company over thirty years highlights how a group's performative capacity to make-ensemble stimulates its organizational and social processes. With a commitment to participation, listening, and horizontality, the ensemble is shown to challenge the structures of capitalism, and fosters a vision of hope for societies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgement

Introduction: The Ensemble

1 Performing the Ensemble

2 Background and Proposal: Ensemble-Making as a Practice

3 Case: ATIR Theatre Company

4 Theoretical Framework: The Posthumanist Practice Theory

5 Methodology: Gathering Traces

6 The Book's Organization

Notes

1. The School

1 The Emerging Assemblage

2 The Characteristics of the "Bottega"

3 Acquiring the Performative Practices of Making Theatre

3.1 Undressing Personal Attitudes and Playing

3.2 Making Choir

3.3 Being Real on Stage

3.4 Searching for Intensity

4 Becoming a Group

4.1 Romeo and Juliet

4.2 The Creation of ATIR

2. The Rehearsals Room

1 Assemblage in the Making

2 Performative Practices

2.1 The Choir: Ensemble-Making in the Performance

2.2 The Scenography: Ensemble-Making with Vibrant Matter

2.3 The Plays: Ensemble-Making with Stories and Texts

2.3.1 The First Dramaturgical Stream: The Classics

2.3.2 The Second Dramaturgical Stream: Social Activism Plays

2.3.3 The Third Dramaturgical Stream: Contemporary Dramaturgy

3 Collective Creative Practices

3. The Theatre

1 Assemblage Becoming Territory

2 Educational and Community-Building Practices

2.1 Gli Spazi del Teatro. Ensemble-Making with Non-Conforming Subjectivities

2.2 Theatre Workshops: Ensemble-Making for Communities

2.3 Theatre Education, Ensemble-Making in Educational Theatre

2.4 The Piana: Ensemble-Making Larger than Life

3 Collective Organisational Practices

4. The Community

1 Assemblage as Resistance

2 Community-Oriented Practices towards the City: Ensemble-Making Being Nomadic

2.1 Odissea - Storia di un ritorno

2.2 El Nost Milan

3 Resistance Practices: Ensemble-Making in the ATIR's Way

Note

5. Conclusion

1 Ensemble Multiplicity.

2 ATIR's Performing Ensemble

3 About the Posthumanist Ensemble

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-72056-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004720565 DOI