This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female ...impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself.
Connectors Marcus, Susan Bass
Journal of museum education,
01/2006, Volume:
31, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
What draws practitioners into the field of museum education? Why do many remain in the field long-term and how do they grow professionally? What challenges reinvigorate the practice or persuade ...educators to leave the field? Using examples from the course of my career and anecdotes from colleagues, this article identifies common experiences that have inspired practitioners, raised particular professional issues, and given us tools to address our professional needs.
This essay discusses the creation of wayang wahyu-a Catholic form of shadow theatre in central Java-and its relation to Church politics of inculturation. It presents a short history and an analysis ...of performance practice of this unique Christian theatre. Marzanna Poplawska is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She received her MA in musicology from Warsaw University in Poland. She spent three and half years in Indonesia, where she learned music and dance and conducted research. This paper will be a part of her dissertation, "The Role of Christian Music in the Processes of Inculturation and the Creation of Identity-An Indonesian Example."
This article introduces a conceptual design for an interactive artwork called "Feel-in-Touch!" Its aim is to improve the use of imagination in artworks using abstract images in the formats of ...interactive media and vibro-tactile aids. New technologies can visually realize every surrealistic narration we can imagine, but these technologies limit our perceptions by presenting only one way of imagining, instead of multiple alternatives. This restricts creative thinking. Working from the above assumption, this article explores how to increase the degree of imagination in an interactive artwork. The author discusses problems of the imagination in art and interactive media and summarizes current research on vibro-tactile and vibro-acoustic applications. He then outlines "Feel-in-Touch!" and discusses the outputs of this conceptual design.
This essay recognizes puppet theater as an important site for the circulation of early modern learning, particularly among the illiterate or those with limited reading skills. Through allusion and ...simulated puppet shows, Shakespeare and his contemporaries created a fragmentary record of this “little theater”, which offers clues to the subject matter of popular puppet plays and indicates that puppet showmen, like their counterparts in live theater, drew from a wide range of topical sources—from medieval romance and Scripture, Italian texts and theater, to English history, contemporary events, and drama. Print culture trickled down to the lesser classes in puppet adaptations which, among ordinary folk, constituted a type of “cultural literacy” and/or a counter‐cultural awareness of the literary past and current trends. Beginning with a brief history of European puppetry the essay turns to England from 1573–1614 and considers the unwritten repertoire of the puppeteers, echoed in period literature such as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, which responded to a popular demand for knowledge and entertainment.
Troup interviews Lally Katz, a prolific writer and co-writer of new works for theater in Australia. Among other things, Katz talks about the Quarelling Pair: A Triptych of Small Puppet Plays, part of ...the 2004 Melbourne International Arts Festival, the universe, death--and the processes of writing.
Chapman demonstrates that in Ben Jonson's late comic masterpiece Bartholomew Fair, Jonson struggled to reject some of the key features of the religious overtones he inherited from the Middle Ages, ...and the play invokes important aspects of Catholic religious practice only to repudiate them and to show audiences the folly of such forms of piety. Although many critics have remarked that Bartholomew Fair seems particularly concerned with religious matters, they almost invariably exclude Catholicism from the play's field of inquiry.
For over 25 years, Theodora Skipitares has been the art world's investigative reporter turned sociocultural critic-conceiving, designing, and directing productions that materialize her passionate and ...critical interest in history. Although in recent years Skipitares has used actors, puppets and performing objects remain her main artistic vehicles. Skipitares fluctuates between the miniature and the monumental. She continues to use unexpected media to convey very vital messages that use the past to illuminate the present.
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