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Theatrical Pillage in Asia: Redirecting the Intercultural Traffic

John Russell Brown
- 01 Feb 1998 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 53, pp 9-19
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This article is published in New Theatre Quarterly.The article was published on 1998-02-01. It has received 16 citations till now.

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Toward a Topography of Cross-Cultural Theatre Praxis

TL;DR: In this article, a two-way flow model for intercultural theatre is proposed, which analyzes a number of approaches and proposes a new two way flow model to model intercultural performances.
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Foreign Asia / Foreign Shakespeare: Dissenting Notes on New Asian Interculturality, Postcoloniality, and Recolonization

Rustom Bharucha
- 09 Mar 2004 - 
TL;DR: The authors deconstructed the larger monolithic and Orientalist associations of Shakespeare and Asia, and problematized their diverse relationships by focusing on three discrete, yet politically and economically linked, sites of investigation: New Asian explorations of Shakespeare in which the dramatic text is subsumed within deconstructive scenarios exploring inter-Asian cultural difference; postcolonial critiques of Shakespearean adaptation in traditional performances like Kathakali; and the neo- Orientalist attempt to seek an authentic and vibrant Shakespeare in the living traditions of non-Western cultures.
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as interpreted by the Temple of Fine Arts International: A ‘personal’ devotional poetics

TL;DR: This paper propose a model of acting-theatre praxis whose theoretical coordinates are located in the paradigm of Devotional poetics and the Indian Sublime, the Vedic sciences of the Natyasastra as they relate to the state of pure consciousness and contemporary theories of Interculturalism.
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The cultural value of Shakespeare in twenty-first-century publicly-funded theatre in England

TL;DR: The authors argue that the cultural value of Shakespeare resides in his identity as a free and flexible resource and argue that when tensions are dealt with as negotiations rather than confrontations, new cultural value is generated.
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The scent of jasmine: experiencing knowledge and emotion in cross cultural contexts of South Indian classical dance

TL;DR: This paper explored anthropological notions of the experience and formulation of emotion in learning bharatanatyam, a classical dance-form of Tamilnadu, Southern India, and used it in relation to discussions of bodily and embodied knowledge, placing them within issues of self and emotion.
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The Future of Ritual : Writings on Culture and Performance

TL;DR: The Future of Ritual as discussed by the authors explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics, and asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world.
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Theatre at the crossroads of culture

Patrice Pavis
TL;DR: Patrice Pavis as mentioned in this paper investigates what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre, using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, when the ''foreign' culture speaks for itself.
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The Intercultural Performance Reader

Patrice Pavis
TL;DR: In this paper, Fischer-Lichte et al. present a survey of the history of interculturalism in contemporary theatre and discuss the possibilities and politics of inter-cultural Penetration and Exchange.
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In Contact With the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre

TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theatre in the last 20 years is presented, including Peter Brook, Peter Stein, Augusto Boal, Jorge Lavelli, Lluis Pasqual, Lev Dodin, Maria Irene Fornes, Jonathan Miller, Jatinder Verma, Peter Sellars, Declan Donnellan, Ariane Mnouchkine, Ion Caramitru, Yukio Ninagawa and Robert Wilson.