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Seminars Prof. Maria Shevtsova 19–23 September Cinema Room These seminars are grouped around the central question of why theatre in all its different manifestations is social – spoken theatre, music theatre, dance, performance art, hybrid performance, and much more. Who makes theatre, how do they make it, and why? When do they make it, and for whom? How are artistic processes and practices embedded in the dynamics of societies, contributing to cultures and changing them? The seminars will take specific examples of directors and companies and productions and performances, notably in Europe, with reference to key concepts as well as other aspects of theory and methodology covered in the course. Monday 19 September: Contours and Maps: Introducing the Area Tuesday 20 September: Introducing Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital, Habitus, Field Wednesday 21 September: Performing Groups, Social Groups and Social Contexts Thursday 22 September: Making Theatre/Performance and Sociocultural Analysis I Friday 23 September: Being a Spectator and Sociocultural Analysis II; Connecting Journeys Public Lecture Friday 23 September, 5.30 pm Directors Invent ‘Theatricality’: Focus on Vsevolod Meyerhold and Ariane Mnouchkine Maria Shevtsova is the Chair Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, having held Chairs previously at the University of Lancaster (Founding Chair) and University of Connecticut, USA. She was Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sydney. She has established the sociology of theatre and performance as a discipline, and has developed various methodologies for this area of research, including sociocultural performance analysis and contextualization. Shevtsova’s administrative duties at Goldsmiths include Director of Research, PhD Admissions and Staff Development in the Department of Drama, and numerous major committees such as the Research and Enterprise Committee of Goldsmiths as a whole. Her teaching experience is considerable, both national and international, involving students of various levels from undergraduate to postgraduate. In recent years she has focused on postgraduate students, running an MA course Performance and Culture and a PhD Seminar on Research Methodologies, as well as Goldsmiths-wide seminars on Academic Practice. Her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (2009) and Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009). She is the author of more than one hundred articles in refereed journals and chapters of collected volumes, including ‘Peter Brook’ in The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare, ed. John Russell Brown (2008). She is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press), an editor of Critical Stages, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics, and on the Editorial Board of numerous international journals, including the Stanislavsky Journal (online journal). |