Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body

Includes bibliographical references.Includes abstract.In this thesis I explore my obsession with teaching the physical theatre body over the past twenty-five years.Two sets of questions are proposed: How does the teaching of physical theatre respond to violence and the violated body; and how does pedagogy change when it moves from one context to another? Firstly, I argue that the pedagogy developed by Jacques Lecoq in Paris responded like a pendulum to the extreme violence perpetrated on bodies during the Second World War. I argue that my own practice, influenced by my two years of study at École Jacques Lecoq (1984-1986), continued this tradition by responding to what, I propose, existed as a ‘culture of violence’ in South Africa from the period of colonialism through the apartheid era and into the present. I analyse the impact of violence on the body by focusing on three consequences - stillness, erasure and rupture - and come to an understanding of how the teaching of physical theatre, as per Lecoq and myself, counters all three with a focus on the moving, articulate, individuated body capable of transformation. Secondly, I propose that pedagogy responds to geographic, philosophical and historical contexts and is subject to modification when context changes. The methodology has included conventional research, a comparative analysis of the two contexts, and an analysis of my own experiences - from notebooks that I have kept - as a student and teacher

‘And while I am falling, I listen’: on translation processes in <i>I turned away and she was gone</i> (2014) Jennie Reznek in conversation with Sruti Bala

Jennie Reznek is Co- Artistic Director and Trustee of Magnet Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. I turned away and she was gone is the fifth solo work that she has developed under the banner of Magnet Theatre. It was nominated for six awards and published by Modjaji Books in 2019. The interview took place in the framework of the research project on translation and performance (in collaboration with the University of Cape Town and the University of Amsterdam, 2016–19) in July 2017 at Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts &amp; Research in Pondicherry, India. Reznek shared her reflections on the artistic processes of translation in the solo performance I turned away and she was gone

Microwave Spectroscopy

Contains reports on two research projects.Joint Services Electronics Programs (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force) under Contract DA 28-043-AMC-02536(E