Form & Genre
Expressionism
Category
The term ‘expressionism’ describes a radical style of visual art that aimed to express emotion non-naturalistically, in violent protest against the perceived bourgeois repression of naturalism.
Video
CoNCrEte (2009)
screendance reveals
how the environment affects our emotions and ever-changing lived
experience.
Video
Video
Walking Gusto Productions
explores the marginalised and disempowered female voices of South Africa by
using the body as a “site of resistance”
Video
Bella Merlin’s practical presentation uses Stanislavsky’s Six Fundamental Questions to contextualise a demonstration of ‘practice as research’ riffing off his work, as well as Maria Knebel’s.
Commentary
by McPherson, Katrina
Practitioner
Tadashi Endo is a butoh dancer and teacher. He met Kazuo Ohno in 1989 and has since been deeply influenced by his work. He is founder and director of Germany’s Butoh-Center and Butoh-Festivals MAMU.
- 1900s
- 1920s
- August Strindberg
- Butoh
- Edvard Munch
- Ernst Toller
- Eugene O'Neill
- Expressionism
- Expressionist Acting
- Expressionist Theatre
- Frank Wedekind
- Georg Kaiser
- Germany
- Mary Wigman
- Non-naturalistic
- Oscar Kokoschka
- Pina Bausch
- Psychoanalysis
- Robert Wiene
- Sean O'Casey
- Sophie Treadwell
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
- The Scream
- Visual Art
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Michael Chekhov was a celebrated actor for directors including Stanislavski, Vakhtangov and Reinhardt. He developed a unique creative process that continues to inspire actors around the world.
Category
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