Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work

Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento

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Routledge
21 July 2010

Acting techniques; Dance & Performing arts; Plays & playscripts

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. Alongside the perspectives of other prominent intercultural actors, this study draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and Roberta Carreri (Odin Teatret). By illuminating the hidden creative processes usually unavailable to outsiders--the actor’s apprenticeship, training, character development, and rehearsals--Nascimento both reveals how assumptions based on race or ethnicity are misguiding, trouble definitions of intra- and intercultural practices, and details how performance analyses and claims of appropriation fail to consider the permanent transformation of the actor’s identity that cultural transmission and embodiment represent.

By: Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9780415884006
ISBN 10: 0415884004
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 21 July 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Actor, director, and scholar Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, PhD, performs and conducts research internationally. Tatinge Nascimento is an Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at Wesleyan University, and her articles have appeared in Biblioteca Teatrale (Italy), Didaskalia (Poland), and Theatre Research International, among others.

Reviews for Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

'Although dealing with a very complex topic, Claudia Tatinge Nascimento manages to make her point clear. Based on theoretical and practical data as well as on personal experience, the author presents a very coherent and readable book which may be of great interest both for experts and laypersons, for theatre scholars and scholars of cultural studies, literature and others.' - www.theaterforschung.de