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The Unwritten Grotowski - Theory and Practice of the Encounter (Paperback)
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The Unwritten Grotowski - Theory and Practice of the Encounter (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
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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.
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