Search for dissertations about: "new theatre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words new theatre.

  2. 1. Composing The Performance : An Exploration Of Musical Composition As A Dramaturgical Strategy In Contemporary Intermedial Theatre

    Author : Kent Olofsson; Henrik Frisk; Erik Rynell; Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musical composition; Dramaturgy; Composed theatre; Intermedial theatre; New music theatre; Interdisciplinary performing arts; Contemporary theatre; Sonic scenography; Collaborative artistic work; New dramaturgy; Musical composition; Dramaturgy; Composed Theatre; Intermedial theatre; New music theatre; Interdisciplinary performing art; Contemporary theatre; Sonic scenography; Collaborative artistic work; New dramaturgy;

    Abstract : This thesis explores musical composition in the context of contemporary theatre. It suggests methods where compositional thinking – broadly understood – can be used as a dramaturgical device in the creation of theatre performances. READ MORE

  4. 2. Rousseau's Idea of Theatre : From Criticism to Practice

    Author : Maria Gullstam; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Roland Lysell; Michael O'Dea; Martin Rueff; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; theatre; the Enlightenment; pharmakon; perfectibility; aesthetics; imitation; the public festival; Pygmalion; Narcisse; ou L’Amant de lui-même; Le Devin du village; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : As a critic of the moral consequences of Parisian theatre while writing plays and music for it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) had a double relationship to the art form of theatre. This doctoral thesis argues that his seemingly double position towards the theatre is not necessarily contradictory. READ MORE

  5. 3. Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action

    Author : Erik Rynell; Lunds universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theatre; cognition; embodied cognition; acting; avantgarde theatre; new theatre;

    Abstract : Contemporary cognitive science challenges the idea about the human brain as a kind of computor. Instead the importance of the body for our way to understand and interact with the world has come into focus. READ MORE

  6. 4. Scenography in Action : Space, Time and Movement in Theatre Productions by Ingmar Bergman

    Author : Magdalena Holdar; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Hans Hayden; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scenography; set design; theatre design; performance studies; scenography analysis; theatre space; Ingmar Bergman; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : Developments in technology and new aesthetic idioms in the past decades have changed the preconditions for the scenographer’s work in the theatre. Therefore, it has become problematic indeed to describe scenography as the sum of costume and set, although this continues to be the common definition of the concept. READ MORE

  7. 5. Over the Threshold, Into the World : Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events

    Author : Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen; Willmar Sauter; Anita Synnøve Hammer; Keld Hyldig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; performance analysis; model; staged event; aesthetics of the performative; metaphysics of experience; immanent transcendence; theatre; ritual; installation; religion; spirituality; Erika Fischer-Lichte; Dorthe Jørgensen; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to develop an apparatus of theory and method for performance analysis, the purpose of which is to analyse potentials for experiences of transcendence. These experiences are contextualised in terms of the metaphysical, the religious, and the spiritual. READ MORE