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Title The unwritten Grotowski : theory and practice of the encounter / Kris Salata.
Author Salata, Kris, author.
Publisher New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Description xvi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780415534031 hardback
0415534038 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Contents 1 Grotowski Studies in a New Key 13 -- 2 The Inner Man and His Deed: Jerzy Grotowski and the Heritage of Adam Mickiewicz and Polish Romanticism 60 -- 3 Towards the Non-(Re)presentational Actor: From Grotowski to Richards 81 -- 4 Nearness in Creation: From The Twin to The Letter 100 -- 5 Towards a Theory of Aliveness: Pyric Theatre 118 -- 6 Genealogy of Homecoming: A Journey of The Living Room 158.
Summary "This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer. Salata posits Grotowski's work as philosophical practice, and more particularly, as practical research in the phenomenology of being, arguing that Grotowski's departure from theatrical productions (and thus critical consideration) resulted from his uncompromising pursuit of one central problem, "What does it mean to reveal oneself?"--The very question that drove his stage directing work. The book demonstrates that the answer led him through the path of gradually stripping the theatrical phenomenon down to its most elemental aspect, which shows itself through the craft of the performer as a non-representational event. This particular quality released at the heights of the art of the performer is referred to as aliveness, or true liveness in this study in order to shift scholarly focus onto something that has always fascinated great theatre practitioners, including Stanislavski and Grotowski, and of which academic scholarship has limited grasp. Salata's theoretical analysis of aliveness reaches out to phenomenology and a broad range of post-structural philosophy and critical theory, through which Grotowski's project is portrayed as philosophical practice"-- Provided by publisher.
Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 26.
Library Class Theatre D2640.P6
Subject Grotowski, Jerzy, 1933-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Performing arts -- Philosophy.

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