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Author Potdar, Ashutosh

Title Performance Making and the Archive
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (341 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Performance, Memory and Absence -- Bergson and Memory -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Note -- Part I: Concepts, Histories and Performances -- Chapter 1: Archive and Performance -- Madness and Revolution: On Marat, Sade and Theroigne de Mericourt -- Note -- Chapter 2: Interpreting Material -- Introduction -- Mobilities -- Performing Practices -- Performance Practices within Context -- Interpreting Material -- More on Material
Questioning the Material and Its Interpretation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Performance, Its Archive and Historicity: Notes on Intercultural Critique -- Parenthesis -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Invisible Histories: Tracing Displacement, Bondage and Resistance through Adivasi Songs and Performance Practices in Wayanad -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Materializing Site -- The Facts -- The Purpose of the Archive -- Performative Cartography -- Archive as a Political Practice -- Reflection -- Notes -- Bibliography
Chapter 6: From Oblivion to Acceptance: Sadir Dancer Muthukannammal's Presence as a Challenge to Representations -- Introduction -- The Devadasi Cult in Viralimalai -- Muthukannammal -- The Interview of Muthukannammal Acting as an Archive of Sadir -- Claim of Space through Performance -- The Question of the Representation of the Art Form -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Archiving for New Emerging Disciplines -- Part II: Dramaturgical Shaping and Re-shaping -- Chapter 8: The Dramaturgy of the Archive: An Interview -- Chapter 9: Rehearsing the Witness: The Bhawal Court Case
Reconstruction: The Transparent Performer -- Re-enactment. Rehearsal -- Audition text -- The Impostor as an Actor or the Actor Is an Impostor -- The Actor as a Witness -- Chapter 10: Documentary Theatre and My Performance Practice -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Archiving Tamasha and Lavani through Performance -- Section I: Archiving Tamasha and Lavani through Theatre -- Introduction -- A Portrait of the Artist: Representations of the Lavani Dancer -- Section II: Sangeet Bari : A Case Study -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Narratives of Existence: Witnessing Lived and Imagined Realities
Introduction -- Begin Here... -- Aesthetic Framework -- The Framework -- Part III: Design and Directorial Methods of Creation -- Chapter 13: C'est la CEPT: Archiving the Archive -- Introduction -- Being Doshi -- Decoupage Integrale -- Cleaning the Badminton Building -- Gurus, Gopis and Celebrity Architects -- Silent Lecture -- The King's Judgement -- Waiting for Doshi -- Credits -- Technical Specifications -- Performances/Events -- Screenings -- Nota Bene -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Inside Out -- Chapter 15: When I Performed as a Worker as an Artist -- Counter/Contracts -- Termination of Employment
Notes Description based upon print version of record
The Hidden
Subject Performing arts archives -- Congresses
Performing arts archives
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Saha, Sharmistha
ISBN 9781000785746
1000785742