Performing the Arts
The blending of visual art and performance or drama, where the body and live action becomes the medium, often multi medium.
What is performance art?
There were three waves of these people immigrating to America, mainly from Germany, Poland, and Russia.
Who were the Jewish Immigrants?
Black humor, self deprecation, rhythm and cadence, and The fool archetype all signify this.
What are elements of Jewish Comedy?
This term was coined in regards to Jewish themes, but can be used for a variety of ways. It is the writing of something that will work for most audiences but has a hidden layer usually only noticeable to the “in group”
What is double coding?
A style of theatre defined by absurdity and indefinability shares a name with what a young child may call a parent.
What is Dada?
A protest of something, often with a specific audience in mind
What is the point of performance art?
The hit musical detailing one of the reasons for the mass immigration of Jewish people from Russia.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
Of the two types of fools in Jewish Comedy this is the one “getting soup spilled on him” so to speak
Who is the Schlimazel?
The hidden meaning in double coding can often be this to the message given to the broader audience
What is conflicting?
The primary movement that accompanied the rise of Dada
What is anti-art?
The styles of theatre that are very similar to, incorporate, or can be argued to be performance
What is Dada and Futurism?
Due to the high concentration of Jewish people Downtown New York City became home to this, in their own language, in the early 1900s.
What is Yiddish theatre?
Lots of Jewish humor is hidden through this device.
What is double coding?
While Jewish people and themes were being seen on stage post 1960 this medium was still being primarily double coded until the 21st century
What is cinema and television?
The style of theatre that purposely shocks and upsets the audience, disrupting the audience-performer relationship.
What is Theatre of Cruelty?
To involve the audience and make the art appear in the here and now.
Why is performance art almost always live?
Entertainer, along with doctor, and banker were one of very few of these available to Jewish immigrants.
What was allowable jobs?
Many Jewish theatre artists found themselves on stage or producing stage works during the 1960s in this medium.
What is musical theatre?
How characters look or are described, specific phrasing, and certain speech patterns are examples of this.
What are ways in which double coding happens?
A focus on facial acting as opposed to dialogue.
What is the focus of Theatre of Cruelty's acting style?
The work of performance art that portrayed a couple from an undiscovered tribe locked in a cage. The piece elicited reactions much different than intended
What is The Couple in the Cage
In 1906 this international hit Jewish play was shut down for breaking indecency laws, for showing a lesbian kiss on a Broadways stage for the first time.
What is God of Vengeance?
This common form of televised entertainment is very heavily based in Jewish comedy.
What is the American sitcom?
When done in a negative way by non-jews double coding is used in to promote this ideology.
What is antisemitism?
A style of theatre that's focus is on instructing the audience and spur change and actively destroys suspension of disbelief.
What is Epic Theatre?