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Title: An investigation in the self-organising of the performer's self
Authors: Jacono, Victor E. (2006)
Keywords: Performing arts
Theater
Complexity (Philosophy) in art
Issue Date: 2006
Citation: Jacono, V. E. (2006). An investigation in the self-organising of the performer's self (Master’s dissertation).
Abstract: In Science, Order and Creativity, David Peat holds that music, theatre and the visual arts are 'another very important way of responding to nature and understanding our position in the universe. 'I always felt,' he writes, 'that, in some deeper sense, the really important figures in science and the arts were fundamentally doing the same thing, and responding to the same ultimate origin.' The first decades of the twentieth century saw the advent of two emerging 'sciences': the 'science' of the performer's self-research and the science of complex adaptive systems (commonly known as complexity science). Broadly speaking, both sciences can be viewed as an investigation of the nature of creativity. The story of the 'science' of the theatre performer begins in Russia, with the work of Konstantin Stanislavski. The story of complexity science has several beginnings, sparsely scattered about, occurring in various fields of research including mathematics, biology, Gestalt psychology, process philosophy and quantum physics. Both sciences are somehow problematic. What in this dissertation is being referred to as the 'science' of the performer's self-research does not constitute a universally applied approach to the study or production of theatre performance. It is, rather, the direction taken by a growing line of theatre makers who, since Stanislavski, have focused their attention particularly on the actor and who have attempted to develop an approach that would enable the actor to research and develop his creative potential.
Description: M.A.THEATRE STUD.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/75724
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