diane celia hodges wrote:
>
> At 8:14 PM 10/16/97, Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu wrote:
> >Reading your message, I found some old known "friends".
> >
> >Would you please answer me a few questions?
> >
> >1) Are you developing any research on theater-education?
> >
> >2) In your opinion what's the diference between "drama play" and
> >"theater games"?
> >
> >3) Are you "from" UCSD?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> Hi Ricardo, ...I'm not entirely sure if you're asking me, or Kerry, but I'll
> scratch out a response, and mebbe Kerry will join in?
I was asking you. But Kerry's answers will be welcome.
>
> I can't say I'm involved in drama/theatre to any formal extent,...
>
> my research is
>
> community-based, art-activism.
That's the major Theater education direction in Brazil: interaction
between people mediated by Theater.
The writers I listed there in
> my, ah, effusive note, are influences more in my thinking about
>
> art as a political tool, and as metaphors
> for thinking outside of education-based models...
Yes, it is a strong tool. In school education too.
I like the marxist influence,
> but not the androcentric applications that organize the historical
>
> aspects of Brecht, Williams, Benjamin... well, all of them, really,
> lack a certain, um, feminist sensibility. So, it's *very* interesting to
> re-construct materialist/feminist/queer ways for
>
> thinking about/and implementing art as a tool for mediating the spaces
> between the marginalized, and the dominant community.
Why not in school education?
>
> as I say, I think there aspects of theatre in the "everyday" which are
> much more intriguing than formal threatical productions.
We are interested on studying "drama play" and "theater games" without
formal theatrical productions objectives in school education...
developed
>
> You?
> diane (UBC)
>
> >= diane celia hodges wrote:
> >>
> >> Kerry - do you read/have you read any of Raymond Williams or
> >> Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht,
> >>
> >> Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bakhtin, Andre Breton...?
> >> (whoops. Is my marxism slipping?)
> >>
> >> Any influences from Laurie Anderson? Antonin Artaud (and his ever-so-special,
> >> theatre of cruelty? [tsk! just like a man!]) ...[kidddiiinnggg]
> >>
> >> How about John Cage? Roland Barthes?
> >> Have you ever read
> >> Isadora Duncan's (1928)
> >> "The
> >> Dancer of the Future" from her book "The Art of Dance"?
> >>
> >> Can you tell me more *women/queer writers* in this area? because just listing
> >> these names is making me feel like I've just been
> >> [insert verb describing 'penetration' here].... but anyway, before I offend
> >> anyone
> >> again,
> >>
> >> I'm not trying to put you on the spot here - it seems to me that drama and
> >> theatre
> >>
> >> offer powerful and compelling ways for thinking about the important questions
> >> of identity as/in/ the "cultural" with/in the contexts of the "social" and
> >> vicey-versa,
> >> (as if they were distinct?)... rebel/guerrilla theeatre, and so on...
> >>
> >> Certainly theories of "performance" play well in terms of our
> >> "everyday" interactions -
> >>
> >> the implications of the everyday use of the word "theatrics" when
> >> describing someone (usually meaning "hysterical") -
> >>
> >> and
> >> as an intervention, especially in forms of articulation
> >> for marginalized/minority groups, I think drama and theatre are potent
> >> tools...
> >>
> >> my own artisitic work tends to lean more towards the "theatre of
> >>cruelty" model,
> >> because I think that too much of theatre/drama is about complacency
> >> in the guise of entertainment... you know,
> >>
> >> (for goddess's sake! don't make me THINK about anything!!!)
> >>
> >> or summat to that effect. I like to disturb folks, similar to Walter
> >>Benjamin's
> >> use of the "quotation" as a way for "interrupting" discourse (and maybe
> >> you witnessed the effect of that recently here on xmca? ah. but I digress...)
> >>
> >> Brecht's work, too, influences
> >> a lot of what appeals to me about theatre as a tool, although Brecht
> >>certainly
> >> has his problems (like, can u say self-centred misogynist alcoholic?)...
> >>
> >> anyway, I'd be so interested in hearing more about where you go with your
> >> work... theatre and drama are. as far as I'm concerned, a veritable
> >> sociocultural
> >> toybox!!!!
> >>
> >> diane (is my enthusiasm showing?) ;-)
> >>
> >> ooh ooh ! how about Guy Debord? (chicks! we need more chick names!!!)