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Seriegpividing Information on Recent Doctoral Dissertations. The DOCUMENT RESUME FD 204 813 CS 503 558 TITLE Theatre and Oral Interpretation: Abstracts of Doctotal Dissertations Published in. ',Dissertation .Abstracts International," January. through June 1981 (Vol. 4T Nos. 7 through 121. INSTITUTION ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, Ill. PUB DATE 81. NOTE' 12p.: Pages may be marginally legible, EDRS PRICE ME01/PC01 Plus Postage. DrSCRIRTOPS Acting: Annotated Bibliographies; Blacks: Characterization: Creative Dramatics; Disabilities: Disadvantaged Youth: *Doctoral Dissertations: Drama: *Dramatics: Foreign Countries: History: 0 Homosexuality: *Literary History: *Oral Interpretation: *plavwriting: Theater Arts TDENTIFIEPS Belgium (Brusselsl: Elizabethan Drama: Mexico:' Nigeria: USSR (Leningrad) 118TRACT This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing seriegpividing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (11 creative dramatics and theatre arts among socially and emotionally handicapped inner-city adolescents:(21 The Toone Marionette Theater of Brussels: (31 Mexican Playwrights:(41 alternative playwriting procedures: (51 the emergence of lesbians and gay men as chatacters in plays produced on the American stage from 1922 to 1954:(61 the oral interpreter's preparation of lyric poetry for performance: (71 black theatre in New York City from 1920 to 1929:(8) the'Leningrad Theatre of Young Spectators from 1922 to 1941: and (9)the black themtre movement of the 1960s and 1970s.(RL) ******************************************************m***********: lc: Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that Canbe'Made * from the original document. ''-' ****************************************************************** * . U,S, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NAIIONAL INST 11'1111 01: I IMCAIION I DUCA I IONAl III :;01111e1S INI 011MAI IQN CANIIIIIIMC1 /4-I his00,11111,1mi1011 i1111111 111010t1111 110 1-1; ' lott 8100%11111111 OM 11015011 111 01001111311011 0110101111110 It . I I M11101 01.11100. 110V0 t1411 111.011 10 11111110V0 11111101100100 titmlity. .. l'oulla of viow III tIpinunis slalod III II. III immtdomAnoconsalllymilmwmolfitm111111 poHttion ot nolicy. Theatre and Oral Interpretation: Abstracts of Doctoral Disertations Published in Dissertation Abstracts International, January through June 1981 (Vol. 41 Nos. 7 through 12) Cpmpiled by the staff of the ERIC Clparinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIE MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY UniVersity Microfilms ° International TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES lJ INFORMATION_CENtER (ERIC)." ' )04, fr 11. 4 The. dissertation title contained here are published with permission of the.UniVersity MiCroflms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts .International (copyright01981 by UniversitY,Microfilms, International), and maymot be reproduced without' their prior permission. 43, 1 A 4 ?-; F. 3 This bibliography has been compiled as part of a continuing series designed 40 to make information on 'relevant dissertations available to users of the ERIC system. Monthly issues of Dissertation Abstracts International are reviewed in order to compile abstracts of dissertatioris'on related topics, which thus., INcome accessible in searches of the ERIC data base. Ordering information for the dissertations themselves is'included at the end of the bibliography. Abstracts of the f011owing dissertations are included in this collection: Banes, Sally R. Davis, David Allen JUDSONDANCE THEATRE:DEMOCRACY'S BODY, 'ALTERNATIVE PLAYWRITING PROCEDURES: 1962-1964 11:10 PLAYS AND A TELEPLAY USED TO EXAMINE TWO NON-TRADITIONAL:PLAYWRITING :Batchelor, Ronald PROCEDURES CREATIVE DRAMATICSAND THEATER ARTS AMONG SOCIALLYAND EMOTIONALLY Lieberman, JosephAlphonsus HANDICAPPED INNER-CITYADOLESCENTS: THE EMERGENCE OF LE9BIANSAND GAY MEN A DESCRIPTION ANDANALYSIS OPA AS CHARACTERS IN LAYS PRODUCED ON THE -DRAMA,PROJECT AMERICAN STAGE FRAM 19227T0 1954 7. tt. o Botsforch Antoinette Millerl\tynthia Ann THE TOONE:MARTONETTETHEATER OF A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERARY BRUSSELS. EXPERIENCE: THE ORAL INTERPRETER'S JPREP4ATION OF LYRIC POETRY FOR Burgess, Ronal Dave PERFORMANCE MEXIAN THEATE THE :..GENERATION d'1969( )Y Monroe,, John Gilbert Cortg.tt, -Delbert rranklin A RECORD-OF ;THE BLACK THEATRE IN NEW THEATRICAL ELEMENTS,OF.TRADITIONAL NIGERIAN 'if YORK CITY: 1920 -29 DRAMA Peterson, Eric Eugene Dacre., Kathleen. A'SEMIOTIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERFORMING THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE OF ELIZABETHAN AND JOCOBEANENGLAND: 1558-1623 (Pevitts','Beverley Byers FEMINIST THEMATIC TRENDS I.PLAYS:WRITTEN . BY WOMEN FOR THE AMERICAN THEATRE.. 1970-1979 Shall,' George Ellswdfth THE LENXNGRAD THEATRE OF YOUNG 10ECTATORS', 1922-1941 .Turner, Dennis Geoffrey DEMONSTRATION OF CHANGING A THEATRIC GE E TO COMMUNICATE ANINTENSIFICATION or TH ORIGINAL THEME Mill'iams, Mance Raymond ; \ ;'THE COLOWOF BLACK THEATRE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS,OF:THE BLACK THEATRE MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s'AND 1970s ') , \1UDSON DANCE THEATRE: DE_MOCRACY'SBODY. 1962.1964 . CREATIVE-DRAMATICS AND T11F_ATER ARTS AMONG Order No 8110746 SOCIALL1' AND ENIO11ONALL1' HANDICAPPED INNER -CITY ADOLESCENTS: A-,DESCR1PHON AND ANALYSIS (IF A BANES, 600.1.1' R.,icH.D. New York University, 1980. 49)pp.Adviser: Michael Kirby DRAMA PROJECT Order No. 8111499 BATCHELOR, RONXLD,ED.D. Columbia University Teqchers College. 1981. The subject of the dissertation is Judson DanceTheatre. a loosely organized collective for avant-garde choredgraphyin Greenwich Village. 143pp. Sponsor (Professor Erwin Flaxman During the . years1962 through 1964, the members of thegroup met)weekly This stud) describes a sixzmonth Drama Project for problem inner-city to present ehpleography for criticism, and they cooperativelyproduced youth, funded by the National InStitute of Mental Health, at the Wiltwyck twenty concerts of dance sixteen group concertsand four evenings of Day Center in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn during.the choreography by individuals. Judson Dance Theatrewas the fOcus ofanew' spring o1978. The aim of this investigation was.,tio-fold: to present a historical stage in American modem dance; itwas the seedbed out of which drama director's narrative account of some encounters that occurred among post-modern dance developed over the next two decades. , ,these adolescents, and to present the drama director's interpretation and The term Judson Dance Theatre is used heretorefer tn the members of analysis of the encounters'and the Project as a whole. The nine adolescents the workshop that met in 1962-64 and theconcerts produced by the who participated in this Project ranked from 13- to 16-years-old. There members of that group, either aloneor together. A total of twenty concerts v)ire'four girls and five boys. All nine were.blaek, had teen born in New are documented. York City, and all diagnosed as socially and emotionally handicapped.. ' Judson Dance Theatre was a vital gatheringplace for Artists in various There were two major phases of this project, creative drarnitics and fields, who shared and exchanged ideasand riathods, explieitly seeking to theater arts.'Specific events in each phase are described and discussed in explore, -refute. and propose definitions of danceas an an form. The issues detail. The analysis of the project focuses on significant and resonant that concerned then) ranged from trainingand technique to choreographic encounters between the director and the students'and among the students process, musical accorripanirnent, performance style,and materials. There' themselves. A "significant encounter" is defined as one which produces a was no single prevailing aesthetic in the 'group;'rather,an effort was made skill.in cream e dramatics or theater arts and reveals new inforniation about to preserve an ambiance of diversity and freedom. This attitude gave rise to the social development of individuil students as well as the group. Some of certain themes and styles: an attention to choreographiC process and the use the information consisted of increased self- knowledge and deepened and of methods that metaphorically stood for democracy, such as improvisation, truer perceptions of the participants by one whither and by the director. A chance, and spontaneous determination: the use of language as an integral "resonant encounter" is defined as a significant encounter id which the part of,thedance: the use of "natural" Or ordinary movements: dancei increased understanding or skill was used in another creative dramatic or about dance. A number of important contemporary choreographers, theater arts exercise or soda! interaction. including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Studies of this type illuminate the immediate, moment-by-moment Deborah Hay, and Lucinda Childs carried out their early innovations and behavioral interactions and responses of the drama director and students formed associations with each other at Judson- Dance Theatre. which tend to be ignored or undervalued in existing literature in the child Chapter 1 documents the choreography class taught by Robert Dunn at drama. field. The director's and'snident's first-hand experiences described in the.Merce Cunningham Studio &Om 1960 through 1962, out of which the this study are analyzed and tested against the theories and techniques of firStiucison concert grew. Chapter II is devotedtdA Concert of Dance [ft 11, a three-hour event presenting several drama and theater specialists, particularly Brian Way, Constantin twenty-three dances by
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