TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laster,Dominika
TI  - Grotowski's bridge made of memory: embodied memory, witnessing and transmission in the Grotowski work 
T2  - Enactments
SN  - 0857423177
AV  - PN2859.P66 L268 2016
U1  - 792.02/33092 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Calcutta
PB  - Seagull Books
KW  - Grotowski, Jerzy,
KW  - Experimental theater
KW  - Poland
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Theater
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - History
KW  - Théâtre
KW  - Production et mise en scène
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - P.B; Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159) and index; Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Emobided memory : Grotowski's work on personal and ancestral memories -- Chapter 2. Xzuwaj (Bevigilant) : vigilance and witnessing in the Grotowski work -- Chapter 3. Grotowski's ladder : making the Archaic vertical connection -- Chapter 4. Let me take you to the land of your ancestors' : Grotowski and transmission -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
N2  - One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowski's career. In Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory, Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowski's work such as body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, verticality, and transmission, arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate blurring of the boundaries of the self and other. This comprehensive study traces key thematic threads across all phases of Grotowski's research, examining lesser-known aspects of his praxis such as performance compositions structured around African and Afro-Caribbean traditional songs and ritual movement, as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition. As an active process of research and questioning conducted through the "body-being" of the performer, the Grotowski work is a practical realization of the often highly theoretical and abstract discussions of one of the field's main preoccupations: embodied practice as a way of knowing
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