From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles
1st Edition
Published on 12. August 2016
172 pages
978-1-315-40504-9 (ISBN)
Description
Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today.
This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow, collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them in the context of their social and activist work. A set of interviews with Ganguly complements these practical sequences, drawing in topics such as the role of the joker, the nature of development, participation and agency, aesthetics as transformation, and Theatre of the Oppressed in the context of a market economy.
This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow, collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them in the context of their social and activist work. A set of interviews with Ganguly complements these practical sequences, drawing in topics such as the role of the joker, the nature of development, participation and agency, aesthetics as transformation, and Theatre of the Oppressed in the context of a market economy.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
115 Halftones, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-315-40504-9 (9781315405049)
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Persons
Sanjoy Ganguly is the founder and Artistic Director of the Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, in West Bengal, India; considered by Boal the chief exponents of his methodology outside his native Brazil. He is the author of Jana Sanskriti: Forum theatre and democracy in India (2010).
Ralph Yarrow is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Ralph Yarrow is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Content
Foreword Eugene van Erven
Preface Ralph Yarrow
PART 1: Workshops Sanjoy Ganguly
Developing Boal's Games into Social Metaphors
Index of Exercises
Introductory Exercises
While Walking
Feel the Protagonist
Express Emotion
Variation, Finding Oppression
Indian Parliament
Fish Society
Game of Power
Expression with Body
1
Joint Sculpture
Circles of Emotion
Sculpting in Pairs, plus Variation
2
Human Knot, plus Variation
Variations of Grandma's Footsteps
The Deer and the Tiger
Crossing the Border
Spontaneous Group Sculptures
Development of Status Game
3
Forum in a circle
Variation on Columbian Hypnosis, plus further Variation
Blind Game
Storytelling
4
Catch in the Circle
Newspaper Theatre
Points of Contact
Invisible Friend
Soundscape and Images
Characters' Stories
5
Moving as Still Image
Experiencing the Lives of Others
Glass Cobra becomes Trade Union Game
PART 2: Interviews with Sanjoy Ganguly and short essays
Interview by Robert Klement Interview by Robyn Kirkby Interview by Clement Poutot Interview by Joschka K?ck Interview by Clement Poutot, on Vivekananda Sanjoy Ganguly: The Political Aesthetic of Jana Sanskriti: Theatre
as an Art of Creating Connection
Coda: Sanjoy Ganguly: 'Aesthetics as Transformation' Postscript: Sanjoy Ganguly: A critical space: Forum, Jokering and the problem of sympathy Letters from Augusto Boal and Sanjoy Ganguly
Preface Ralph Yarrow
PART 1: Workshops Sanjoy Ganguly
Developing Boal's Games into Social Metaphors
Index of Exercises
Introductory Exercises
While Walking
Feel the Protagonist
Express Emotion
Variation, Finding Oppression
Indian Parliament
Fish Society
Game of Power
Expression with Body
1
Joint Sculpture
Circles of Emotion
Sculpting in Pairs, plus Variation
2
Human Knot, plus Variation
Variations of Grandma's Footsteps
The Deer and the Tiger
Crossing the Border
Spontaneous Group Sculptures
Development of Status Game
3
Forum in a circle
Variation on Columbian Hypnosis, plus further Variation
Blind Game
Storytelling
4
Catch in the Circle
Newspaper Theatre
Points of Contact
Invisible Friend
Soundscape and Images
Characters' Stories
5
Moving as Still Image
Experiencing the Lives of Others
Glass Cobra becomes Trade Union Game
PART 2: Interviews with Sanjoy Ganguly and short essays
Interview by Robert Klement Interview by Robyn Kirkby Interview by Clement Poutot Interview by Joschka K?ck Interview by Clement Poutot, on Vivekananda Sanjoy Ganguly: The Political Aesthetic of Jana Sanskriti: Theatre
as an Art of Creating Connection
Coda: Sanjoy Ganguly: 'Aesthetics as Transformation' Postscript: Sanjoy Ganguly: A critical space: Forum, Jokering and the problem of sympathy Letters from Augusto Boal and Sanjoy Ganguly
