Global And Intercultural
Performance
9353001 Hss97 Jasmine
1.Globaliztion’s Throughline
• 1.Globalization’s throughline is to
integrate all systems.
• 2.Intercultural performance needs to
be studies along with globalization.
• 3.four kinds of intercultural
performance and performance
research
• 4.the dublicity of interculturalism—
• Daryl Chin
• 5.difficult to be far away form the
globalization.
2.Scenarios of Globalization
• Competing scenarios.
• 1.the boosters of globalizationAmerican superheroes to dissolve
boundaries.
• 2.David versus Goliath: Consumers
v.s producers.
• 3.increase Western, especially
American hegemony.
• Wealth is more unevenly distributed
than it has ever seen.—Freedman
• Globalization feeds on disparities od
wealth, power, information, and
access.
3.Cultural Impositions and
Appropriations
• The race is culturally constructed
• No “American” culture?
4.Is Globalization Good or Bad?
• 1.cultural bomb-Ngugi wa Thiong’o
• 2.passionate search for a national
culture- Franz Fanon.
• 3.the efforts of the government.
5.Colonial Mimicry
• 1.The meaning of the colonial
mimicry• p.232 first line.
• “The ruler could not bear to be
perfectly replicated because that
would deny them the difference upon
which their authority was ultimately
based.”
• 2.examples:leaders.
• 3.Nehru
• 4.Gandhi:being British→not being
British
6.Tourist Performances: Leisure
Globalization
• 1.true?
• 2.virtual and media tourism
• 3.actual travel
• 4.the control of the past
• 5.*Hamisi Box
• Natives are inferior than those wild
animals.
7.The Olympics
• 1.history
• 2.Eurocentricity:three
evidences.p.241
8.Grotowski’s Vertical
Transculturalism
• 1.Grotowski made connections
across cultures and back in times
seeking what he believed were deep
universal human truths.
• 2.”poor theatre”
• 3.”Objective Drama”
• He wanted to find specific elements
of performance that transcended the
particular cultures in which they
were embedded.
• Grotowski’s ideas are related to
globalization:both are universalistic;
both are utopian; both depend on the
acceptance of certain transcultural
assumptions and methods.
• Difference:Grotowski’s reach is
vertical.
9.Barba’s Horizontal
Interculturalism
• 1.Where is a performer’s energy
from?
• 2.pre-expressive patterns.