Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre, A New Book by Professor Michal Kobialka

Professor Kobialka recently published a new book entitled, Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre (University of Minnesota Press) . Below is a direct link to the Press's catalogue containing a more detailed information about the book--

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kobialka_further.html

For additional information, the Editor Review from Amazon.com:

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative visual artists, stage directors, and theoreticians. His theatre productions and manifestos challenged the conventions of creating art in post-World War II culture and expanded the boundaries of Dada, surrealist, Constructivist, and happening theatre forms. Kantor's most widely known productions--The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985), and Today Is My Birthday (1990)--have had a profound impact on playwrights and artists who continue today to engage with his radical theatre.

In Further on, Nothing, Michal Kobialka explores Kantor's theatre practice from the critical perspective of current debates about representation, memory, and history. He pursues the intriguing proposition that Kantor gave material form to a theatre practice that defined the very mode of postmodern operation and that many of its theoretical notions are still in circulation. According to Kobialka, Kantor's theatre still offers an answer to reality rather than a portrayal of a utopian alternative.

Further on, Nothing includes new translations of Kantor's work, presented in conversation with Kobialka's own theoretical analyses, to show us a Kantor who continues to offer--and deliver on--the promise of the avant-garde.

Xperimental Theatre Auditions Announced

X Auditions

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
AND
Ysengrimus

Wednesday, September 16 6-9pm
Thursday, September 17 6-9pm

"For Colored Girls" will provide readings from the script for audition.
"Ysengrimus" asks for 2 one-minute monologues, 1 comedic and 1 dramatic. In either classical or contemporary style.

Sign up for auditions is located on the callboard in the basement of Rarig.

Ananya Dance Theatre to Perform at the Southern Theater

Director of Dance and Associate Professor Ananya Chatterjea's dance troupe Ananya Dance Theatre will be performing the premiere of their latest work, "Ashesh Barsha, Unending Monsoon" at the Southern Theater September 10-13, 2009. For more information check out Camille LeFevre's article, "Ananya Dance Theater completes trilogy", an article in the Minnesota Daily, and the Southern Theater's website. Also watch a video on the 3-Minute Egg website.

Associate Professor Sonja Arsham Kuftinec Publishes New Book

Associate Professor Kuftinec recently published a new book entitled Theatre, Facilitation and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East.

How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? When does participatory theatre mediate more just futures, and when might it preserve inequities? Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation addresses these questions through detailed case studies of community-based projects in the Balkans and Middle East that the author has witnessed or helped to create. In Mostar, collaborative performance helps youth to re-member a divided city. In Berlin, participants from seven Balkan countries reorient understandings of citizenship through an interactive installation. In Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, image theatre animates the limits of reconciliation. These theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships, while pointing out challenges in doing so. As a travelogue, this study weaves critical analysis with the voices of participants, directors, and workshop leaders, offering viewpoints and field notes on how theatrical facilitation can (and can't) effectively transform conflicts.

New Videos Now Online

Check out our two new videos:

• 2009-10 Season of Love


• An Introduction to the BA Program

Dance Faculty Member Performs in New York

Time Track productions, led by dance faculty member Paula Mann, presents Mann's latest work I Love Tomorrow at the Dance Theater Workshop in Manhattan.

More information about the event:

Paula Mann Performs I LOVE TOMORROW 7/22 Thru 7/25

New York Times Dance Listings

U of M Alumni Return to the Guthrie Stage

The Guthrie Theater's summer comedy, When We Are Married, features U of M Theatre Alumni: Linda Kelsey, Peter Michael Goetz and Sally Wingert. Read more about Kelsey in Kevin Winge's article, Linda Kelsey Returns to the Guthrie Stage.