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Performance Studies: Seminar in English

Performance Studies: Seminar in English. Week 4 Ch. 3-1 Ritual (pp. 45-69) Peter Brook ’ s works Reference: Victor Turner, Bertolt Brecht Iris Tuan. Ritual. Rites of passage Contents of the varieties of ritual (p. 45) 2 main types: Sacred and secular (p. 47) E.g. wedding

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Performance Studies: Seminar in English

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  1. Performance Studies:Seminar in English Week 4 Ch. 3-1 Ritual (pp. 45-69) Peter Brook’s works Reference: Victor Turner, Bertolt Brecht Iris Tuan

  2. Ritual • Rites of passage • Contents of the varieties of ritual (p. 45) • 2 main types: Sacred and secular (p. 47) • E.g. wedding • No rigid separation between sacred and secular • Anna Halprin performs the rituals of everyday life (p. 48)

  3. Structures, Functions, Processes, and Experiences • Understand rituals and ritualizing at least from 4 perspectives (p. 49) • 7 key themes to explore (p. 50) • Rituals as Actions, as Performances • Catherine Bell: Ritual Structure • Emile Durkheim: Ritual and Theatre • Arnold van Gennep: The Rites of Passage

  4. Human and Animal Rituals • All animals subject to the same evolutionary processes. • But animals are not all alike. (p. 51) • Konrad Lorenz: Ritualization in Animals and Humans • D’Aquili, Laughlin, and McManus: The Biological Foundations of Ritual (p. 52) • The “ritual tree”

  5. Rituals as Performances • Jane Goodall: Chimpanzee Ritual Challenge, Chimpanzee Theatre (p. 52-53) • George Schaller: Gorillas and Sprots Fans (p. 54) • Mood Display (p. 55) • The 4 qualities of ritualization • Similarities to “restoration of behavior” • Rituals are “strips of behavior”

  6. Rituals as Liminal Performances • “important parts” of the human body often highly exaggerated (p. 57) • Van Gennep points out the three phases—the preliminal, liminal, and postliminal • Liminal—a period of time when a person is “betwixt and between” social categories or personal identities • Victor Turner: “anti-structure”

  7. Victor Turner • Liminality (p. 58) • “Liminoid” (p. 61) • Diagram of the ritual process in relationship to the liminal, liminoid, and theatre (p. 61) • Anti-structure and Communitas (p. 62) • Social Dramas (p. 66)

  8. Ritual Time/Space • Peter Brook • The Mahabharata (p. 63, 67) • Show the clips • Arjuna glimpses Krishna: his face-to-face with the Absolute (p. 63) • Transportations and Transformations • Temporarily “leave themselves” and be fully “in whatever they are performing (p. 64)

  9. Asemo’s Initation • Spalding Gray (p. 64) • Rites of passage such as initiations are transformation performances • A liminal time-space during the process of being transformed from boys into Gahuku men (p. 65) • Relationship between transporters and transformers (p. 66)

  10. Social Drama • 4 phases: • 1. breach • 2. crisis • 3. redressive action • 4. reintegration or schism (p. 66) • The progression in drama and theatre types (p. 67) • Turner: Social Drama/Aesthetic Drama (p. 68-69)

  11. Homework • Recording review work (p. 68-69) • Watch Tadashi Suzuki’s performance this weekend • Preview Ch. 3-2 & Ch. 4-1 • See the film “Othello” in the NCTU library

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