Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Washington University, 1981. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Dissertação que pesquisa o desdobramento de espetáculos teatrais em imagens de potencial plástico fecundo na interação entre a cenografia e as artes visuais. Estudos de caso de obras de Robert Wilson que elaboram as questões da tensão entre a ficção e a biografia, além de abordar imagem, corpo, movimento e espacialidade. Desenvolve-se em análise das posturas do espaço quando atravessado por trabalhos que promovem o pensamento acerca da imobilidade e de seu contrário. A reprodutibilidade esteticamente explorada é observada enquanto elemento fundamental na proposta que trata a disponibilidade do corpo justaposta à imagética que este é capaz de produzir. Na análise aparecem alguns materiais - imagens - resultantes de processos artísticos de Robert Wilson bem como de outros artistas como Marina Abramovic e Rineke Djcstra. Estruturado no encadeamento de imagens partícipes de processos de construção e condução de performances artísticas que abrangem as perspectivas da colaboração imagética incorporada ao pensamento criativo que recondiciona o corpo no campo da superficialidade enquanto abrangência poética / Dissertation researching the deployment of theater shows in pictures of fruitful plastic potential in the interaction between stage design and visual arts. Case studies of works by Robert Wilson that elaborate the issues of tension between fiction and biography, adressing in addition image, body, movement and spatiality. Develops in analysis of postures of space when crossed by works that promote thinking about stillness and its opposite. The aesthetically exploited reproducibility is seen as a key element in the proposal that treats the availability of the body juxtaposed to the imagery that this body is capable of producing. In this analysis some materials - images - appear as the resulting of artistic processes of Robert Wilson as well as other artists such as Marina Abramovic and Rineke Djcstra. Structured in the chain of participant pictures of building processes and driving of artistic performances that encompass the perspectives in collaboration of imagery incorporated into the creative thinking that reconditions the body in the field of superficiality as poetic scope

Dissertação que pesquisa o desdobramento de espetáculos teatrais em imagens de potencial plástico fecundo na interação entre a cenografia e as artes visuais. Estudos de caso de obras de Robert Wilson que elaboram as questões da tensão entre a ficção e a biografia, além de abordar imagem, corpo, movimento e espacialidade. Desenvolve-se em análise das posturas do espaço quando atravessado por trabalhos que promovem o pensamento acerca da imobilidade e de seu contrário. A reprodutibilidade esteticamente explorada é observada enquanto elemento fundamental na proposta que trata a disponibilidade do corpo justaposta à imagética que este é capaz de produzir. Na análise aparecem alguns materiais - imagens - resultantes de processos artísticos de Robert Wilson bem como de outros artistas como Marina Abramovic e Rineke Djcstra. Estruturado no encadeamento de imagens partícipes de processos de construção e condução de performances artísticas que abrangem as perspectivas da colaboração imagética incorporada ao pensamento criativo que recondiciona o corpo no campo da superficialidade enquanto abrangência poética / Dissertation researching the deployment of theater shows in pictures of fruitful plastic potential in the interaction between stage design and visual arts. Case studies of works by Robert Wilson that elaborate the issues of tension between fiction and biography, adressing in addition image, body, movement and spatiality. Develops in analysis of postures of space when crossed by works that promote thinking about stillness and its opposite. The aesthetically exploited reproducibility is seen as a key element in the proposal that treats the availability of the body juxtaposed to the imagery that this body is capable of producing. In this analysis some materials - images - appear as the resulting of artistic processes of Robert Wilson as well as other artists such as Marina Abramovic and Rineke Djcstra. Structured in the chain of participant pictures of building processes and driving of artistic performances that encompass the perspectives in collaboration of imagery incorporated into the creative thinking that reconditions the body in the field of superficiality as poetic scope

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Cette étude se propose d’examiner les questions que soulève l'opéra de Pékin contemporain de Taïwan à travers deux exemples : Le Roi Lear mis en scène par Wu Hsing-Kuo et Orlando mis en scène par Robert Wilson. Ces deux spectacles en solo sont fondés sur des textes occidentaux traduits en chinois. Pour mettre en scène ces textes traduits, Wu Hsing-Kuo et Robert Wilson ont eu recours aux conventions et au jeu de l’acteur de l’opéra de Pékin. En dépit d’éléments similaires, les textes scéniques tissés par ces deux metteurs en scène diffèrent profondément. Dans le but de trouver une manière appropriée de décrire et d’analyser ce genre de spectacles métis qui sortent de leur cadre traditionnel, tout en gardant en même temps certains traits spécifiques, nous avons commencé par creuser les conceptions qui sous-tendent la forme de l’opéra chinois. Ensuite, nous avons approfondi les questions liées à la pratique ainsi que ses rapports avec les conceptions esthétiques chinoises. Dans la dernière partie de cette étude, nous nous appuyons essentiellement sur les conceptions développées dans les deux premières parties de cette thèse plutôt que sur les discussions sur la nature du théâtre interculturel pour les chercheurs occidentaux auxquelles se sont déjà référés beaucoup de chercheurs taïwanais. À travers l’analyse des deux spectacles, nous proposons une voie différente pour discuter des représentations « interculturelles », tels que les spectacles de l’opéra de Pékin contemporain de Taïwan, qui échappent aux règles et aux conventions bien établies et qui ne peuvent être jugés selon les standards habituels. / This thesis aims to examine the questions suggested by two contemporary Peking opera productions in Taiwan: “King Lear” directed by Wu Hsing-Kuo and “Orlando” by Robert Wilson. These two adaptations are both based on Western masterpieces and each of them is performed by one trained Peking opera actor. Despite the similarities that appear in the works of the Taiwanese and the American director, the results of their experimentations on the stage differ considerably between each other. In order to find appropriate way to describe and analyze this kind of performances based on the fusion of traditional as well as foreign elements, we started by researching the conceptions which associate deeply with the form of Chinese opera. Then, we delved further into the relations between the practice of Chinese opera and the Chinese aesthetics concepts. Finally, we analyzed the two examples, not through the discussions related to “intercultural theater” developed by occidental researchers and commonly referred to Taiwanese researchers, but through the conceptions that we have developed in the last two chapters of this thesis. Through this study, we expect to propose a different way to approach the theatrical productions that broke the routine and cannot be analyzed by the standard rules.

[pt] Em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar entre os estudos de literatura e os estudos teatrais, esta dissertação propõe um olhar atento sobre a linguagem e a sonoridade no trabalho do diretor teatral norte-americano Robert Wilson nas três décadas que separam duas de suas realizações cênicas: Deafman Glance (1970), peça marcada pela ausência de palavras e sons, e Monsters of Grace II (2013), sua primeira obra radiofônica. A partir de pressupostos teóricos do teatro pósdramático e do teatro performativo, investigam-se o processo de aproximação de Wilson à linguagem oral, bem como novas abordagens do uso da voz no teatro. Objeto central da pesquisa, a peça Monsters of Grace II ganha uma análise detalhada, seja no contexto de produções na intersecção entre teatro e rádio, seja como dispositivo para investigar as possibilidades materiais e corporais da experiência radiofônica. / [en] From an interdisciplinary angle that takes in both literature and theater studies, this thesis turns its gaze on both language and sound in the oeuvre of American theater director Robert Wilson in the three decades that separate two of his works: Deafman Glance (1970), a play characterized by the absence of words and sound, and Monsters of Grace II (2013), his first work for radio. Wielding theoretical propositions from postdramatic and performative theater, this analysis investigates the process by which Wilson came to reconcile himself with oral language, as well as exploring new approaches to the use of voice in theater. The central object of this study, Monsters of Grace II is examined in greater detail, be it in the context of productions at the crossroads between theater and radio or as a framework by which to investigate the material and corporeal possibilities of experimentation in radio.

This thesis examines an approach to directing Mac Wellman and David Lang’s opera, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field; in addition, the paper reflects on my artistic development as a Master of Fine Arts in Directing student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. As a director I seek a balance between form and content. Similar to Installation Art, I consider the relationship between space/architecture (the stage/theatre) and sculpture, i.e., anything that can be used to create shape: performers, props, scenery, wardrobe, makeup, light, sound, music, language, etc. As a deviser, not a dictator, the success of my work depends greatly on interdisciplinary collaboration and strategies that promote understanding and appreciation among both artists and audiences. My aim is to create structures for formal elements that when arranged uniquely and sophisticatedly have the ability to provoke emotion, thought, and memory in vivid and compelling ways. This paper explores selected stages of directing The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, the strategies that I employed, and concludes with an artistic statement. / text

The Meisner Technique emerged as a part of the realist, modern theatre of the early-Twentieth Century and extended its influence through the rest of that century, including the 1960s and 1970s when there was an explosion of various forms of postmodern performance. This work will demonstrate that while Meisner’s Technique is a part of the paradigm of modern, realist theatre, it simultaneously challenges this ideology with disruptive processes of the sort that postmodern performance instigates. It is the thesis of this work that the Meisner Technique operates according to a set of phenomenologically-aligned imperatives that create strong resonances with certain forms of postmodern performance. This establishes the dynamic wherein the Meisner Technique is able to enter into discourse with instances of the postmodern paradigm of performance. In the first three chapters I will conduct in-depth analyses of Meisner actors’ relationships with their environment, their fellow performers, and their actions from a range of phenomenological perspectives. In the fourth chapter I will apply the conclusions of these analyses to the operation of the Meisner Technique within the paradigm of modern, realist theatre. In the fifth chapter I will set a backdrop to the postmodern field and suggest the issues from this tradition with which the Meisner Technique might resonate. Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight each take one example of an artist from the postmodern field, Richard Foreman, Michael Kirby, and Robert Wilson respectively, establishes their own particular context, and suggests those processes relating to acting/performing technique that might provoke the most productive exchanges. This juxtaposition suggests the places between the practices where discourse might take root and suggests the beginnings of such dialogues.

The influence of new media on theatrical practice over the past fifty years has spurred a movement towards theatrical forms which are increasingly organized around the sensory elements of performance. This change is most noticeable in the visual approaches to theatre, and it has produced what I have labeled a theatre of visuality. This thesis argues that the tendencies for visualization found in visual media have extensively marked the performance strategies of contemporary theatre practice, resulting in a shift away from the logocentric dramatic text and towards theatre performance organized around the visual. Looking at four contemporary productions of Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck –Thomas Ostermeier’s Woyzeck (2005), Vesturport’s Woyzeck (2005), Robert Wilson’s Woyzeck (2000), and Josef Nadj’s Woyzeck ou l’Ébauche du Vertige (1994)– this thesis produces a preliminary typology of four distinct visualities/theatrical forms which make up the theatre of visuality: hyperrealism, synesthesia, superficiality, and visual narration. This thesis contributes to the conceptualization and understanding of postdramatic theatre by linking the theatre’s rejection of the text to the increased centrality of the visual in performance, and by tracing these shifts to the influence of visual media.