Synopses & Reviews
Group Creativity explores the unique form of creativity that emerges from collaborating groups. Dr. Sawyer draws on his studies of jazz ensembles and improvisational theater groups to develop a model of creative group processes. He applies this model of group creativity to a wide range of collaborating groups, including group learning in classrooms and innovative teams in organizations.
In group creativity, a group comes together to collaboratively create in real time. The creative inspiration emerges from the interaction and communication among the members, and makes the result more than the sum of its parts. The dynamic, moment-to-moment communication among jazz musicians and improvising actors is the primary topic of the book. Sawyer explores performers' close listening and sensitivity, the submerging of the ego to the group mind, and the ways that performers work together to create something better than and different from what one solitary individual could create alone. These explorations provide insight into all forms of group creativity and collaboration.
Synopsis
This bk covers the cognitive process involved in improv. group performance-whether in an art-performace setting or in business& Indust.This bk will find markets in Cog. Sci, Org. Behavior and the performing arts(improvisational theatre, music and dance).
Synopsis
A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work.and#160;In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
About the Author
Matthias Rebstock is junior professor of scenic music at the University of Hildesheim in Germany.
David Roesner is a senior lecturer in drama at the University of Exeter.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; David Roesner
Part I: History and Methodology
1. Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Matthias Rebstock
2. Composition and Theatre
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Roland Quitt
3. 'Happy New Ears': Creating Hearing and the Hearable
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Petra Maria Meyer
Part II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
4. 'It's all part of one concern': A 'Keynote' to Composition as Staging
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Heiner Goebbels
5. 'Theatre in small quantities': On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Michael Hirsch
6. ...To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State...
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Jand#246;rg Laue
7. From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Kland#228;nge
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Jand#246;rg U. Lensing
8. 'Let's stop talking about it and just do it!': Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; George Rodosthenous
9. Hearing Voicesand#8212;Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Nichoals Till
10. Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Demetris Zavros
Part III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
11. 'and#199;a devient du thand#233;and#226;tre, mais and#231;a vient de la musique': The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Matthias Rebstock
12. Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Hand#228;usermann's Theatre Work(s)
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Judith Gerstenberg
13. Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott's Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Christa Brand#252;stle
14. Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Jand#246;rn Peter Hiekel
Part IV: Discussion and Debate
15. Composed Theatreand#8212;Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner
Part V: Discourse and Analysis
16. 'It is not about labelling, it's about understanding what we do': Composed Theatre as Discourse
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; David Roesner
Contributors