Performing Premodernity 2

Volume 2 includes some of the proceedings from the second day of the symposium “Acting in the Late Enlightenment (1740-1800)”, which was held in Stockholm in December 2014.

Contents

The introductory chapter of Dene Barnett’s book The Art of Gesture: The Practices and Principles of 18th Century Acting (Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1987) and two papers were circulated in advance:

  • “On Acting in Late Eighteenth-Century Opera Buffa” (full text)
    MAGNUS TESSING SCHNEIDER

The following discussion papers were then offered in response:

  • Challenges to Historically Informed Staging and Research (full text)
    SIGRID T’HOOFT
  • Dene Barnett’s Eighteenth Century, Or, What Is Historically Informed Performance? (full text)
    MAGNUS TESSING SCHNEIDER
  • A Few Thoughts on My Work as Opera Director after Reading the Proposed Texts, Or, How to Overcome the Evidence that ‘I Can’t Make This Opera’ (full text)
    DEDA CRISTINA COLONNA

In addition the following paper was presented:

  • The Actor’s Gesture as A Mediator of Inner Feelings: Examples of Extroversion in the Theatre of the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century (full text)
    HELENA KAZÁROVÁ