Eurasian Theatre: Dance and Performance Between East and West from Classical Antiquity to the Present (review)

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-337
Author(s):  
Kathy Foley
Keyword(s):  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
East And West ◽  
And Performance

Bali and Beyond: Eugenio Barba's Ur-Hamlet

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Ann Cremona
Keyword(s):  
International School ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

In this article Vicki Ann Cremona traces the development of the complex process of montage used by Eugenio Barba for Ur-Hamlet, based on the oral tale Amleth, which Saxo Grammaticus included in his history of the Danes (circa 1216). Besides Odin Teatret, the project involved a large number of actors and musicians from Bali, Brazil, and Japan, and other participants and trainees with whom Barba had worked at the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA). The author here recounts how the work was developed from different cultural perspectives, describing how the actors' physical scores were combined without their cultural specificity being modified in any way. Vicki Ann Cremona is an Associate Professor at the University of Malta, currently serving as Malta's Ambassador to Tunisia. Her co-edited texts include Costume in Malta: a History of Fabric, Form, and Fashion (1998) and Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames (2004). She updated, revised and edited Nicola Savarese's Eurasian Theatre: Drama and Performance between East and West from Classical Antiquity to the Present, translated from the Italian by Richard Fowler (Holstebro, Malta, Wrocław: Icarus Publishing, 2010).

Integrated Tug/Barge Valerie F: Design and Bulk Cargo Handling Operations

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
David J. Seymour ◽  
Miklos Kossa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Round Trip ◽  
Cargo Handling ◽  
East And West ◽  
And Performance

The integrated tug/barge (ITB) Valerie F transports mixed bulk cargo between the East and West Coasts of the United States. The concept of barge wing tanks dedicated to rice with center cargo holds for general bulk cargo provides the backhaul capability necessary for profitable round-trip voyages. This paper compares the design and performance of the tug/barge with that of the Rice Queen, a converted tanker the Valerie F was built to replace. Typical cargoes for the ITB are described, as well as her self-unloading equipment, tug-to-barge connector, propulsion machinery, and the bulk cargo handling equipment and facilities at her ports of call, particularly those at her home ports of Sacramento and Stockton, California.

Introduction: Gender, East, and West in Classical Antiquity

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164
Author(s):  
Maryline Parca ◽  
Angeliki Tzanetou
Keyword(s):  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
East And West

Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
English Translations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature History ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Roman Antiquity ◽  
Canonical Texts

Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. He studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts. Even after he had ‘left Parnassus for Piccadilly’, antiquity continued to provide Wilde with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist’s imagination. Wilde’s debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of Society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis. This book unites scholars in Classics and ancient history, English, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to investigate the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde’s life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of Wilde’s literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material. It also encompasses the main aspects of the ancient world that Wilde engaged with, its literature, history, and philosophy.

Constitutional Power and Competing Risks: Monarchs, Presidents, Prime Ministers, and the Termination of East and West European Cabinets

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 496-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETRA SCHLEITER ◽  
EDWARD MORGAN-JONES
Keyword(s):  
Survival Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Business Cycles ◽  
Electoral Accountability ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Constitutional Constraints ◽  
East And West ◽  
And Performance ◽  
West European

Some European constitutions give cabinets great discretion to manage their own demise, whereas others limit their choices and insert the head of state into decisions about government termination. In this article, we map the tremendous variation in the constitutional rules that govern cabinet termination and test existing expectations about its effects on a government's survival and mode of termination. In doing so, we use the most extensive government survival data set available to date, the first to include East and West European governments. Our results demonstrate that constitutional constraints on governments and presidential influence on cabinet termination are much more common than has previously been understood and have powerful effects on the hazard profiles of governments. These results alter and improve the discipline's understanding of government termination and durability, and have implications for comparative work in a range of areas, including the survival and performance of democracies, electoral accountability, opportunistic election calling, and political business cycles.

scholarly journals Lampedusa: Migrant Tragedy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-157
Author(s):  
John Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Late Modernism ◽  
And Performance

Tragedies about the suffering of migrants are not a new phenomenon. So this article quickly turns to texts from classical antiquity by Aeschylus and Euripides. It focuses, however, on poetry written over the last decade. Following the routes taken by asylum seekers from Africa and Asia through such transit points as Lampedusa and across Europe to Calais, it looks at depictions of the suffering associated with travel, disaster, and problematic arrival, and at the interaction in tragic writing between old motifs and conventions (tragedy as understood by Aristotle or Hegel) and current issues and resources. Fresh insights are offered into the work of poets from migrant backgrounds (Warsan Shire, Ribkha Sibhatu) and into a range of modes from lyric (James Byrne) through experiments with translation and performance (Caroline Bergvall) into the late modernism of Geraldine Monk, J. H. Prynne, and Jeff Hilson.

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