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Ruffini, Franco

 
9780415719261: Theatre and Boxing: The Actor who Flies (Routledge Icarus)
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ISBN 10: 0415719267 ISBN 13: 9780415719261
Editorial: Routledge, 2014

Sinopsis

Theatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor’s believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdle can be considered one of the foundations of theatre science and of the relationship between technique, politics and ethics.

This book tells the story of a revolution in the work of the actor in the early- and mid-20th century, a period in which the focus of theatrical interest shifted from the emotions to the body. The actor’s body became a tool for purveying a dynamic set of actions which often transformed the very actor himself. This new centrality of the body also drew attention to those places in which the body is central: the gym, the boxing ring and the circus with its trapezes and tightropes became, together with the stage, laboratories for the theatre. Thus, in addition to the reformers of the theatre the pages of this book are filled with boxers, acrobats, gymnasts and wrestlers, pursuers of an utopia: the "actor who flies".

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Franco Ruffini teaches at the Rome Tre University. He is a member of the scientific staff of ISTA, the International School of Theatre Anthropology, of which he is one of the founders together with Eugenio Barba. He sits on the Board of Editors of the journal Teatro e Storia.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2014
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ISBN 10 
0415719267
ISBN 13 
9780415719261
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
183
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Alemania

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9780415719278: Theatre and Boxing: The Actor who Flies (Routledge Icarus)

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ISBN 10:  0415719275 ISBN 13:  9780415719278
Editorial: Routledge, 2014
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