DAH Theatre
A Sourcebook
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. May 2016
240 pages
978-1-4985-2715-6 (ISBN)
Description
DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook is a collection of essays about the work of one of the most successful and innovative performance groups in contemporary history. With a direct line of descent from Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, DAH Theatre, founded during the worst of times in the former Yugoslavia, amidst a highly patriarchal society, predominantly run by women, has thrived now for twenty-five years. The chapters in this book, for the most part, have been written by both theatre scholars and practitioners, all of whom have either seen, studied with or worked with this groundbreaking troupe. What makes DAH so exceptional? The levels of innovation and passion for them extend far beyond the world of mere performance. They have been politically and socially driven by the tragedies and injustices that they have witnessed within their country and have worked hard to be a force of reconciliation, equity and peace within the world. And those efforts, which began on the dangerous streets of Belgrade in 1991, today, have reached throughout the world. Though they still make their home in Serbia, audiences from as far afield as New Zealand, Mongolia, Brazil and the U.S. have discovered their power - both in purely aesthetic terms and as passionate activists.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b/w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-2715-6 (9781498527156)
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Content
Foreword: Butterflies Who Dream of Being a Theatre
Eugenio Barba
Introduction
Dennis Barnett
A PATH TO HEALING: PERFORMANCES IN SERBIA
Chapter 1 - Theatre that Matters: How DAH Theatre Came to Be
Duca Knezevic
Chapter 2 - Honoring Memory and Articulating Truth: The Case of Serbia's DAH Theatre
Max Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan
Chapter 3 - DAH Theatre's Angels: Doubling the Directions of Community-based Memory
Amy Sarno
Chapter 4 - Two Main Tendencies in the Work of DAH Theatre: A Performance Analysis of Two Respective Cases
Ivan Medenica
Chapter 5 - Story of Tea
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 6 - In/Visible City: Transporting Histories and Intersecting Identities in Post-war Serbia
Shawn Womack
Chapter 7
The Lost Show: Tender, Tender, Tenderly and Yugo-nostalgia
Beth Cleary
SPREADING THE PEACE: REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD
Chapter 8 - Enduring and Transforming: DAH Theatre and 7 Stages' Maps of Forbidden Remembrance
Leigh Clemons
Chapter 9 - On Directing A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard: DAH Theatre, Physical Theatre, and Neurobiology
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Chapter 10 - Two Interviews: Erik Ehn and Siegmar Schroeder
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 11 - My Experience of DAH
Arthur Skelton
Chapter 12 - Elegance, Refusal, Survival: DAH Theatre
Jill Greenhalgh
Chapter 13 - Changing Ourselves to Change Society
David Diamond
Chapter 14 - On Making Devised Performances with DAH Theatre
Del Hamilton
Chapter 15 - Previously Blue: Devising the Salvage of Disaster, Resilience and Beauty
Ruth Margraff
APPENDIX
Eugenio Barba
Introduction
Dennis Barnett
A PATH TO HEALING: PERFORMANCES IN SERBIA
Chapter 1 - Theatre that Matters: How DAH Theatre Came to Be
Duca Knezevic
Chapter 2 - Honoring Memory and Articulating Truth: The Case of Serbia's DAH Theatre
Max Stephenson and Lyusyena Kirakosyan
Chapter 3 - DAH Theatre's Angels: Doubling the Directions of Community-based Memory
Amy Sarno
Chapter 4 - Two Main Tendencies in the Work of DAH Theatre: A Performance Analysis of Two Respective Cases
Ivan Medenica
Chapter 5 - Story of Tea
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 6 - In/Visible City: Transporting Histories and Intersecting Identities in Post-war Serbia
Shawn Womack
Chapter 7
The Lost Show: Tender, Tender, Tenderly and Yugo-nostalgia
Beth Cleary
SPREADING THE PEACE: REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD
Chapter 8 - Enduring and Transforming: DAH Theatre and 7 Stages' Maps of Forbidden Remembrance
Leigh Clemons
Chapter 9 - On Directing A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard: DAH Theatre, Physical Theatre, and Neurobiology
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Chapter 10 - Two Interviews: Erik Ehn and Siegmar Schroeder
Dennis Barnett
Chapter 11 - My Experience of DAH
Arthur Skelton
Chapter 12 - Elegance, Refusal, Survival: DAH Theatre
Jill Greenhalgh
Chapter 13 - Changing Ourselves to Change Society
David Diamond
Chapter 14 - On Making Devised Performances with DAH Theatre
Del Hamilton
Chapter 15 - Previously Blue: Devising the Salvage of Disaster, Resilience and Beauty
Ruth Margraff
APPENDIX
