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Summer Seminar – Programme


12–19 September 2011
(FIRST WEEK)

MORNING CLASS

Prof. Ian Watson
Performance Studies Methodology
The ‘Inside Meeting’,
Cinema Room
2 HOUR SEMINARS/LECTURES. Each session will explore the role of performance/performative and its implications in:
12.09 (Monday): Theatre (the focus will be on performance analysis versus literary and/or dramatic and analysis)
13.09 (Tuesday): Ritual
14.09 (Wednesday): Social Interaction
15.09 (Thursday): Politics and power 
Last session on 16.09 (Friday) will be devoted to the presentations by participants.

AFTERNOON CLASS

  • Prof. Ian Watson
Performance Studies Methodology
The ‘Outside Meeting’
, Cinema Room
3 HOUR PRACTICUM IN AND AROUND WROC£AW. Depending upon numbers, individual participants or participants working in groups will explore one area of Wroc³aw/Polish life in terms of its performance/performativity. The focus will be on applying the methodologies they are being exposed to in the morning sessions.
The results of this work will be presented and discussed on Friday, the last day of the session.

  • Prof. Dariusz Kosiñski
The Polish Theatre of Transformation SERIES OF LECTURES, Cinema Room
12.09 (Monday): Poland as Performance
13.09 (Tuesday): Adam Mickiewicz: Forefathers’ Eve and Engaged Poetry
14.09 (Wednesday): The Labyrinth Called Theatre: Juliusz S³owacki and Stanis³aw Wyspiañski
15.09 (Thursday): Reduta: Through Theatre Beyond Theatre
16.09 (Friday): Jerzy Grotowski: From Theatre to Performer

PUBLIC LECTURE
16 September (Friday), 5.30 pm.
Prof. Ian Watson
Performance as a Paradigm of Cultural Analysis





19–23 September 2011 (SECOND WEEK)

MORNING CLASS

Prof. Maria Shevtsova
The Sociology of Theatre and Performance SEMINARS, Cinema Room
19.09 (Monday): Contours and Maps: Introducing the Area
20.09 (Tuesday): Introducing Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital, Habitus, Field
21.09 (Wednesday): Performing Groups, Social Groups and Social Contexts
22.09 (Thursday): Making Theatre/Performance and Sociocultural Analysis I
23.09 (Friday): Being a Spectator and Sociocultural Analysis II; Connecting Journeys

AFTERNOON CLASS

Prof. Miros³aw Kocur
The Sources of Theatre LECTURES, Cinema Room
19.09 (Monday): Introduction: Performing Arts in Bali
20.09 (Tuesday): The Descend of Performer
21.09 (Wednesday): Paleoperformances
22.09 (Thursday): Performative Space
23.09 (Friday): Two Births of Theatre

PUBLIC LECTURE
23 September (Friday), 5.30 pm
prof. Maria Shevtsova
Directors Invent ‘Theatricality’: Focus on Vsevolod Meyerhold and Ariane Mnouchkine