The seventh East Asian Colloquium of the fall semester will be next Friday, November 15th. Please note that all EASC colloquiums this semester will take place in the Student Building, Room 150.
PRESENTER: Jennifer Goodlander (Department of
Theatre and Drama, IU Bloomington)
TOPIC: “Tradition,
Aesthetics, and Practice: Understanding Japanese Noh and Balinese Wayang
Kulit through Performance”
DATE: Friday, November 15, 2013
DATE: Friday, November 15, 2013
TIME: 12:00-1:15 p.m.
LOCATION: Student Building, Room 150
LOCATION: Student Building, Room 150
Learning a
performance form like noh or wayang kulit requires practice,
practice, and more practice. But all of that practice provides insight
into the different “practices,” as articulated by Pierre Bourdieu, which
constitute the society surrounding the performance. Aesthetics relate to social
values and hierarchies. In this presentation, I will draw from my own experiences
learning and performing Japanese noh and Balinese wayang kulit in
order to highlight the dynamic social and cultural dimensions of these
performances and examine “tradition” as embodied in practice.
Jennifer Goodlander has received
many grants and fellowships for her performance work and research on Asian
performance, including a Fulbright grant to Indonesia to research women and
traditional performing arts in Bali and a Mellon Innovating International
Research, Teaching, and Collaboration award to research puppetry and national
identity in Indonesia and Cambodia. Jennifer has presented at national
and international conferences, and has published in Asian Theatre Journal,
Theatre Journal, Puppetry International Magazine, and has a
couple of chapters in edited books. She is currently finishing a
monograph tentatively titled, Women in the Shadows: Gender, Puppets, and the
Power of Tradition in Bali. In New York City and regionally she has
worked extensively as a director and teacher with a special emphasis on new
plays and physically based performance. She has combined Asian
theatre into innovative productions of The Ghost Sonata, The Bacchae,
and others. Jennifer is a consecrated dalang and has performed wayang
kulit in Bali, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana.
Jennifer teaches world performance, performance studies, and Asian theatre for
the Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University and is a Faculty
Research Curator at the Mathers Museum of World Culture.
Persons with disabilities interested in attending our events who may require assistance, please contact us in advance at (812) 855-3765.
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Indiana University
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