Claudia Orenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1709022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Orenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Orenstein |
| SIGNATURE | ORENSTEIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claudia Orenstein is Associate Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (2014), coauthor (with Mira Felner) of The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (Pearson, 2005), and author of Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (University Press of Mississippi, 1998). Her current research focuses on contemporary issues in Indian puppetry, including... |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0593-0499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects
Fazendo teatro em tempos dificeis
A presente palestra foi proferida pela Prof.a Claudia Orenstein, da City University of New York (CUNY) na Faculdade St.Thomas College em Thrissur, Kerala, ìndia, em 7 de janeiro de 2019. Tradução: Prof.a Mayumi Ilari (DLM/ USP)
The Object in Question: The Fidena International Puppetry Festival
Germany’s FIDENA puppetry festival’s provocative offerings, with shows drawn from visual arts and dance, without traditional puppets at their center, prompts reflections on the shifting boundaries of puppetry arts, the new notion of “material performance,” and, within this new rubric, the continuance of elements essential to puppetry
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only…
The New Victory Danish Festival: A New Perspective on Puppetry and Family Entertainment
Claudia Orenstein reconsiders the notion of “entertainment for the whole family” via a puppetry-centered program that, by drawing on the power of performing objects, delves into the uncanny and fantastical to appeal to young minds, inventive artists, and adventurous adult spectators alike. Edward Scheer considers the aesthetics of disappearance within Australian performance artist Mike Parr's most recent series of actions, Amerika, which involve …
Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit (review)
Reviewed by: Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit Claudia Orenstein Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit. By Jan Mrázek. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005; pp. 588. $45.00 paper. While puppetry has attracted scholarly attention in recent years, and performing objects of every kind appear on Broadway and in avant-garde houses alike, the field of puppetry crit…
Puppetry: A World History (review)
Reviewed by: Puppetry: A World History Claudia Orenstein Puppetry: A World History. By Eileen Blumenthal. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005; pp. 271. $65.00 cloth. American performing artists, scholars, and spectators are currently experiencing an awakening or reawakening to the world of puppetry and its many possibilities beyond its ubiquitous presence in children's theatre. Performing objects of every kind appear regularly on Broadway, in avant-g…
Burmese Puppetry (review)
In the 1970s it was impossible to find a performance of Yokthe Pwe, Burmese Puppetry, anywhere in Burma. This marionette tradition, which traces its roots back long before the earliest records of fifteenth-century performances, had, by the eighteenth century, become an important part of Burmese royal court life. With British colonization in the nineteenth century, however, the form went into decline. It enjoyed a period of revival as a popular tr…
Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan (review)
Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan is a comprehensive study of a little-known Japanese folk performance tradition whose roots go back to the twelfth century. Nomai, which combines music, dance, and song, continues today, preserved in the small villages of Higashidorimura prefecture in the north of Japan. Susan Asai's historical account of the origins of this form and her analysis of current performance practices, with special…
Woman General--Mu Gui Ying; Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (review)
Puppets and "Popular" Culture, and: Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama (review)
Reviewed by: Puppets and “Popular” Culture by Scott Cutler Shershow, and: Pinocchio’s Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots In Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama by Harold B. Segel Claudia Orenstein Puppets and “Popular” Culture. By Scott Cutler Shershow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. 252. $35.00 cloth. Pinocchio’s Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots In Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama. By Harold B. Seg…
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only…
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects
Puppets and "Popular" Culture, and: Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama (review)
Reviewed by: Puppets and “Popular” Culture by Scott Cutler Shershow, and: Pinocchio’s Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots In Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama by Harold B. Segel Claudia Orenstein Puppets and “Popular” Culture. By Scott Cutler Shershow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. 252. $35.00 cloth. Pinocchio’s Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots In Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama. By Harold B. Seg…
Woman General--Mu Gui Ying; Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (review)
Burmese Puppetry (review)
In the 1970s it was impossible to find a performance of Yokthe Pwe, Burmese Puppetry, anywhere in Burma. This marionette tradition, which traces its roots back long before the earliest records of fifteenth-century performances, had, by the eighteenth century, become an important part of Burmese royal court life. With British colonization in the nineteenth century, however, the form went into decline. It enjoyed a period of revival as a popular tr…
Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan (review)
Nomai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan is a comprehensive study of a little-known Japanese folk performance tradition whose roots go back to the twelfth century. Nomai, which combines music, dance, and song, continues today, preserved in the small villages of Higashidorimura prefecture in the north of Japan. Susan Asai's historical account of the origins of this form and her analysis of current performance practices, with special…
Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit (review)
Reviewed by: Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit Claudia Orenstein Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of Javanese Wayang Kulit. By Jan Mrázek. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005; pp. 588. $45.00 paper. While puppetry has attracted scholarly attention in recent years, and performing objects of every kind appear on Broadway and in avant-garde houses alike, the field of puppetry crit…
Puppetry: A World History (review)
Reviewed by: Puppetry: A World History Claudia Orenstein Puppetry: A World History. By Eileen Blumenthal. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005; pp. 271. $65.00 cloth. American performing artists, scholars, and spectators are currently experiencing an awakening or reawakening to the world of puppetry and its many possibilities beyond its ubiquitous presence in children's theatre. Performing objects of every kind appear regularly on Broadway, in avant-g…
The New Victory Danish Festival: A New Perspective on Puppetry and Family Entertainment
Claudia Orenstein reconsiders the notion of “entertainment for the whole family” via a puppetry-centered program that, by drawing on the power of performing objects, delves into the uncanny and fantastical to appeal to young minds, inventive artists, and adventurous adult spectators alike. Edward Scheer considers the aesthetics of disappearance within Australian performance artist Mike Parr's most recent series of actions, Amerika, which involve …
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance
The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only…
The Object in Question: The Fidena International Puppetry Festival
Germany’s FIDENA puppetry festival’s provocative offerings, with shows drawn from visual arts and dance, without traditional puppets at their center, prompts reflections on the shifting boundaries of puppetry arts, the new notion of “material performance,” and, within this new rubric, the continuance of elements essential to puppetry
Fazendo teatro em tempos dificeis
A presente palestra foi proferida pela Prof.a Claudia Orenstein, da City University of New York (CUNY) na Faculdade St.Thomas College em Thrissur, Kerala, ìndia, em 7 de janeiro de 2019. Tradução: Prof.a Mayumi Ilari (DLM/ USP)
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects
Art (11 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Puppetry (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Drama (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works)