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Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| author | Reznek, Jennie |
| author2 | Pather, Jay |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11377 Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body Reznek, Jennie Pather, Jay Drama Includes bibliographical references. Includes abstract. In this thesis I explore my obsession with teaching the physical theatre body over the past twenty-five years.Two sets of questions are proposed: How does the teaching of physical theatre respond to violence and the violated body; and how does pedagogy change when it moves from one context to another? Firstly, I argue that the pedagogy developed by Jacques Lecoq in Paris responded like a pendulum to the extreme violence perpetrated on bodies during the Second World War. I argue that my own practice, influenced by my two years of study at École Jacques Lecoq (1984-1986), continued this tradition by responding to what, I propose, existed as a ‘culture of violence’ in South Africa from the period of colonialism through the apartheid era and into the present. I analyse the impact of violence on the body by focusing on three consequences - stillness, erasure and rupture - and come to an understanding of how the teaching of physical theatre, as per Lecoq and myself, counters all three with a focus on the moving, articulate, individuated body capable of transformation. Secondly, I propose that pedagogy responds to geographic, philosophical and historical contexts and is subject to modification when context changes. The methodology has included conventional research, a comparative analysis of the two contexts, and an analysis of my own experiences - from notebooks that I have kept - as a student and teacher. 2015-01-05T07:02:06Z 2015-01-05T07:02:06Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11377 eng application/pdf Department of Drama Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| title_full | Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| title_fullStr | Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| title_short | Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| title_sort | moving ideas about moving bodies teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body |
| topic | Drama |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11377 |
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