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Jerzy Grotowski, the Glossary

Jerzy Marian Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.^[1]

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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.

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African diaspora

The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

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Afro-Caribbean people

Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.

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Alan Seymour

Alan Seymour (6 June 192723 March 2015) was an Australian playwright and author.

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Alfred Wolfsohn

Alfred Wolfsohn (23 September 1896 – 5 February 1962) was a German singing teacher who suffered persistent auditory hallucination of screaming soldiers, whom he had witnessed dying of wounds while serving as a stretcher bearer in the trenches of World War I.Wolfsohn, A., Die Brücke.

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Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology (Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" of the psyche.

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André Gregory

André William Gregory (born May 11, 1934) is a French-born American theatre director, writer and actor. Jerzy Grotowski and André Gregory are drama Desk Award winners.

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Antonin Artaud

Antoine Marie Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. Jerzy Grotowski and Antonin Artaud are theatre practitioners.

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Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile (597-587 BCE) but persisting in Christianity and Islam.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków

AST National Academy of Theatre Arts (Polish: Akademia Sztuk Teatralnych w Krakowie, often shortened to AST), is a drama school based in Kraków and Wrocław, Poland.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Bolesław Taborski

Bolesław Taborski (7 May 1927 – 6 December 2010) was a Polish poet, literary and drama theoretician, essayist, prolific translator of English and Polish, and a long serving BBC Polish Section editor and presenter. Jerzy Grotowski and Bolesław Taborski are Acting theorists.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Collective unconscious

Collective unconscious (kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts.

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Doctor Faustus (play)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust.

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director

This is a list of winners of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director introduced in 1955 to honour directors, with no distinction between work in plays or musicals.

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Dramatic theory

Dramatic theory attempts to form theories about theatre and drama.

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Dziady (poem)

Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) is a poetic drama by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

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Encounter (psychology)

The term "encounter", in the context of existential-humanism (like existential therapy), has the specific meaning of an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals.

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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu,; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.

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Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba are Acting theorists and theatre practitioners.

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre), inspired largely by Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Extended vocal technique

Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds.

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Gardzienice

Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice" was founded in 1977 by Włodzimierz Staniewski, and formally registered in 1978.

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Gary Botting

Gary Norman Arthur Botting (born 19 July 1943) is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, usually shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

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Hedwig Gorski

Hedwig Irene Gorski (born July 18, 1949) is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as "American futurism." The term "performance poetry," a precursor to slam poetry, is attributed to her.

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Imagery

Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as psychotherapy.

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James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans (11 November 1927 – 26 October 2022) was a British theatre director, priest, and writer on experimental theatre, ritual and meditation.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

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Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki (Jules Slowacki; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Keith Fowler

Keith Franklin Fowler (February 23, 1939 – December 30, 2023) was an American actor, director, producer, and educator.

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (p;; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Soviet Russian theatre practitioner. Jerzy Grotowski and Konstantin Stanislavski are Acting theorists and theatre practitioners.

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Leukemia

Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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List of Polish people

This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people.

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Lloyd Richards

Lloyd George Richards (June 29, 1919 – June 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus.

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Ludwik Flaszen

Ludwik Flaszen (14 June 1930 – 24 October 2020) was a Polish theatre director and writer. Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen are Polish theatre directors.

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Music of Haiti

The music of Haiti combines a wide range of influences drawn from the diverse population that has settled on this Caribbean island.

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My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn as fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.

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Nienadówka

Nienadówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokołów Małopolski, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.

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Odin Teatret

Odin Teatret is an avant-garde theatre group based in Holstebro, Denmark.

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Opole

Opole (Oppeln; Ôpole) is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia.

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Order of Polonia Restituta

The Order of Polonia Restituta (Order Odrodzenia Polski, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921.

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681) (full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook are Acting theorists and theatre practitioners.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Pontedera

Pontedera (Pons Herae) is an Italian comune with a population of 29,270 inhabitants, located in the province of Pisa, Tuscany, central Italy.

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Psyche (psychology)

In psychology, the psyche is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious.

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Psychophysiology

Psychophysiology (from Greek ψῡχή, psȳkhē, "breath, life, soul"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.

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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems.

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Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is University Professor Emeritus at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of ''TDR: The Drama Review''.

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Ritual

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects.

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Robert Cohen (playwright)

Robert Cohen (born 1938) is an American university professor, theatre director, playwright, and drama critic. Jerzy Grotowski and Robert Cohen (playwright) are Acting theorists.

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Roy Hart

Roy Hart (born Rubin Hartstein; 30 October 1926 – 18 May 1975) was a South African actor and vocalist noted for his highly flexible voice and extensive vocal range that resulted from training in the extended vocal technique developed and taught by the German singing teacher Alfred Wolfsohn at the Alfred Wolfsohn Voice Research Centre in London between 1943 and 1962.

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Russian Institute of Theatre Arts

The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) (translit) is the largest and oldest independent theatrical arts school in Russia.

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Rzeszów

Rzeszów is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the seat of Rzeszów County. The history of Rzeszów dates back to the Middle Ages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Grotowski

Also known as Grotowski, Grotowskian, Grotowsky, Jerry Grotowski, Jerzy Grotowsky, Poor theater, Poor theatre.

, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter Brook, Pisa, Pontedera, Psyche (psychology), Psychophysiology, Psychotherapy, Richard Schechner, Ritual, Robert Cohen (playwright), Roy Hart, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, Rzeszów, Sapienza University of Rome, Shakuntala, Simone Weil, Song, Spiritual practice, Stanisław Wyspiański, Stanislavski's system, T. S. Eliot, The Lady from the Sea, The New York Times, Theatre director, Theatre of Poland, Traditional society, Tuscany, University of California, Irvine, Włodzimierz Staniewski, Wrocław.

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