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Avant-Garde

Myiesha Hunt Janeisha Clark Kanika Banks Brittney Sangster Ashlee Catchings Cynthia Bell La’Nayah Bowman. Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde (19 th century- present). Art that pushes recognized boundaries Based on a French military term A term that often uses synonymously with “experiment”

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Avant-Garde

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  1. Myiesha Hunt Janeisha Clark Kanika Banks Brittney Sangster Ashlee Catchings Cynthia Bell La’Nayah Bowman Avant-Garde

  2. Avant-Garde (19th century- present) • Art that pushes recognized boundaries • Based on a French military term • A term that often uses synonymously with “experiment” • Cannot remain for long it either fails or succeeds • A rebellion against realism and naturalism

  3. Major Players or Plays • Symbolism • Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck • The Blue Bird(1908) • August Strindberg • A Dream Play(1907) • Expressionalism • George Kaiser • Gas II(1920)

  4. Changes in Production • Avant-Garde influenced the Japanese theatre when William Butler Yeats started to incorporate similar methods into his stage work using mask , open stages, folk music, and dance. • It also was the time where everyone went against the norm of theatre

  5. Other Information • WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb • During the Vietnam war the Avant- Garde in Europe and the U.S was pre occupied with communal performance groups that gave angry political messages

  6. Vocabulary • New Stagecraft- an approach to scenic design featuring simplicity avoidance of detail and reduction of location to it’s most significant elements • Simplicity- A guiding principal detail and reducing a location to its most significant elements • Expressionalism- dehumanization or destruction of humanity at the hands of industry and war. • Theatre of Cruelty- An approach to theatre developed between the world war emphasizing a breakdown of causality and stressing emotion over intellect • Modernism- realistic and non realistic theatre from the 19th century to present day that represents a shift in theatre that started realism

  7. Vocabulary • Theatre of the Absurd- created a body of work dominated by plays centered on characters who are strangers to each other trapped in a violent and meaningless world • Symbolism- First major challenge to realism in the 1980’s and early 20th century • Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights which was developed by Bertolt Brecht

  8. Trivia Questions • What is modernism?

  9. #1 What is modernism? • Modernism- realistic and non realistic theatre from the 19th century to present day

  10. Trivia Questions • What does modernism represents?

  11. #2 What does modernism represents? • a shift in theatre that started realism

  12. Trivia Questions • Who developed epic theatre?

  13. #3Who developed epic theatre? • Bertolt Brecht

  14. Trivia Questions • Give an example of an expressionist play?

  15. #4 Give an example of an expressionist play? • George Kaiser • Gas II(1920)

  16. Trivia Questions • Identify a symbolic play?

  17. #5 Identify a symbolic play? • Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck • The Blue Bird(1908)

  18. Trivia Questions • What was the Epic Theatre?

  19. #6 What was the Epic Theatre? • Epic Theatre- anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment narration songs and obvious theatrically it has been adopted and by countless directors and playwrights

  20. Trivia Questions • How did WW11 affect the artist?

  21. #7 How did WW11 affect the artist? • WWII left artist disturbed by its horrors especially the holocaust and the atomic bomb

  22. Thanks Hope you learned something

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