To Avant or Not to Avant: Questioning the Experimental, the New, and the Potential to Shock in the New Garde

To Avant or Not to Avant: Questioning the Experimental, the New, and the Potential to Shock in the New Garde

A flush of new theatre ensembles producing, for the most part, group-devised work prompts questions about the viability of the term avantgarde, the confluence of events behind the activity of this latest "bunch of experimental theatres," and their relationship to the original "bunch&q...

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Veröffentlicht in:TDR : Drama review 2010-12, Vol.54 (4), p.7-10
Hauptverfasser: Cesare, T. Nikki, Sandford, Mariellen R.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aesthetics
Art criticism
Art objects
Audiences
Avant garde
Cable television
Caught Off-Garde: New Theatre Ensembles from NYC (mostly)
Performance art
Pig iron
Terrorism
Theater
Theater companies
Theater criticism
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Zusammenfassung:A flush of new theatre ensembles producing, for the most part, group-devised work prompts questions about the viability of the term avantgarde, the confluence of events behind the activity of this latest "bunch of experimental theatres," and their relationship to the original "bunch" from the 1970s.
ISSN:1054-2043
1531-4715
DOI:10.1162/DRAM_a_00021