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What is theory? What is philosophy?The cultural influence of the BiblePractising Ideas: Approaches to Theory - Seminar
Dr Louise Douse
University of Bedfordshire 2
Write down questions you have from this mornings lecture
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What is theory? What is philosophy?
What is your aim in [the performing arts]? – To
[show] the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Practitioners/Companies
• Random Dance
• Atomos
• Forced Entertainment
• Bloody Mess
• Marina Abramovic
• Balkan Erotic Epic
• Bertolt Brecht
• Mother Courage
• Matthew Bourne
• Swan LakeUniversity of Bedfordshire 5
What are the philosophies/ ideas/ beliefs of the practitioners/companies?
How does this inform the work that they make?
Theories
• Marxism
• Semiotic theory
• Queer theory
• Neuroscience
• Gender studies
• How can these theories be applied to an interpretation of the work?
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The cultural influence of the Bible
Stream-of-consciousness writing task
• Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.)
• Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.)
• Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within the margins and lines on the page.)
• Lose control.
• Don’t think. Don’t get logical.
• Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)
(Goldberg, 2005, pp. 10-11)University of Bedfordshire 8