Meetings with Remarkable Wo/Men: On a Long Journey to Theatre

by Naum Panovski

Overview

Many artists share the conviction that the theater is a collaborative, multicultural art that stands as a heartbeat of the community trying to find relevant answers to the fundamental questions of our existence.

Offering a variety of perspectives, Meetings with Remarkable Wo/Men focuses on the work of a handful of extraordinary theater artists and innovators. It gives priority not to interpretations of their work, but rather to their words and voice, to their views and ideas. In so doing, it addresses various issues, ranging from arts and politics to history, philosophy, culture, identity, and memory. In an immediate, simple, conversational way, it explores the development of the most influential models and movements in theater and performance in the last fifty years. Most importantly, it underlines the notion that it is the quest for our humanity and our human condition that matters the most in creating art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781480843219
Publisher:	Archway Publishing
Publication date:	02/24/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	297 KB

About the Author

Naum Panovski is a professional theater director, writer, a professor of performing arts, criticism, theory, aesthetics, and humanities. Panovski is a Fulbright Expert and Scholar as well.
He was born in Skopje, Macedonia, then part of former Yugoslavia, and graduated from the noted Academy of Theater, Film, Radio, and Television in Belgrade. Later, he studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, earned a Master’s Degree in Dramatic Arts from the Faculty of Drama in Belgrade, and a Ph.D. in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
During his long professional career in theater, he has worked as a director or a dramaturge on more than ninety productions performed in theaters in Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Italy, France, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, or U.S.
As a professor of aesthetics, criticism, theory, literature, culture, arts and society he has taught and lectured at The University of the Arts, Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, New York University, Yale University, The Catholic University, Lincoln Centre, Smith College, Bentley College, La MaMa Symposium in Spoleto, Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and many other institutions.
As a theater critic and writer, he has authored two books, Directing Poiesis and Theater as a Weapon and has written numerous articles published in theater and performance journals worldwide. He has also presented his work in conferences, panels, and symposia; served on boards, and held various artistic leadership positions.
Naum Panovski is a recipient of many distinguished awards for his creative work, and he is internationally recognized. The Master Thesis “Hamlet our Contemporary - Panovski’s Production” discussing his cross-disciplinary and multimedia vision of this seminal play written by Ms. Aurelie Clemente Graduate student M. A. candidate was submitted to the Universite Paris VII Sorbonne - UFR d’Etudes Anglophones in September 1996,
Naum Panovski’s work was inspired by the theories and practices of the experimental theater of Adolphe Appia, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Peter Brook, Joseph Chaikin, Richard Schechner, Tadeusz Kantor, Carl Weber, Robert Corrigan, Mata Miloševic, and Mirjana Miocinovic.
www.naumpanovski.net