1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages
Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.
The Companion features in-depth explorations of and expert introductions to a select number of performance-related key concepts in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Yorùbá as well as the Indian languages Sanskrit, Hindi and Tamil. Key concepts—such as Furǧa فرجة in Arabic, for example, or Jiadingxing 假定性 in Chinese, Gei 芸 in Japanese, Ìparadà in Yorùbá and Imyeon 이면 in Korean—that defy easy translation from one language to another (and especially into English as the world’s lingua franca) and that reflect culturally specific ways of thinking and talking about the performing arts are thoroughly examined in in-depth articles. Written by more than 60 distinguished scholars from around the globe, the articles describe in detail each concept’s dynamic history, its flexible scope of meaning and current range of usage. The Companion also includes extensive introductions to each language section, in which internationally renowned experts explain how the presented key concepts are situated within, and are constitutive of, distinct and dynamic epistemic systems that have different yet always interlinked histories and orientations.
- Offers a fascinating insight into the unique histories, characteristics, and orientations of linguistically and culturally distinct epistemic systems related to the performative arts
- Contains extensive cross-references and bibliographies
- An invaluable research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for scholars and students worldwide and across the humanities, especially in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, translation, area and cultural studies
- An accessible handbook for everybody interested in performance cultures and performance-related knowledge systems existing in the world today.
This volume provides an invaluable research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for scholars and students worldwide and across the humanities, especially in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, translation and area studies, history (of science and the humanities) and cultural studies.
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
General Introduction: Performance-Related Concepts as Epistemic Systems
Erika Fischer-Lichte
1 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Stimulating Research on Performance-Related Concepts as Epistemic Tools and Systems
Torsten Jost
2 Editorial Statement
Astrid Schenka
PART I Yorùbá
3 Introduction
Bíọ́dún Jéyifò
4 Notes on the Language Editing of the Yorùbá Section
M. Cristina Boscolo
5 Eré
Philip Adédọ̀tun Ògúndèjì
6 Egúngún
M. Cristina Boscolo
7 Oríkì
Karin Barber
8 Àlọ́
Níyì Ọ̀ṣúndáre and Bíọ́dún Jéyifò
9 Ìjúbà
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
10 Ìparadà
Philip Adédọ̀tun Ògúndèjì
11 Ẹ̀gùn Gígùn
Dúrótoyè A. Adélékè
12 Òde
Olú Ọbáfẹ́mi
13 Ìwà Lẹwà and Ọmọlúwàbí
Olúfémi Táíwò
14 Ààbọ̀ Ọ̀rọ̀
M. Cristina Boscolo
PART II Chinese
15 Introduction
Shen Lin 沈林
16 Notes on the Language Editing of the Chinese Section
Stefan Christ
17 Xiju 戲劇 and Xiqu 戲曲
Siyuan Liu
18 Xiqu Hangdang 戲曲行當
Tian Mansha 田蔓莎
19 Piaoyou 票友
Zhang Nan
20 Chang 場
Zhang Nan
21 Chengshi (Hua) 程式化
He Chengzhou 何成洲
22 Jiadingxing 假定性
Huang Jue 黃覺
23 Kongling 空靈
Stefan Christ
24 Qi Yun 氣韻
Yin Qiuyan 尹秋艳
25 Xu 虛 and Shi 實
Wang Ankui 王安奎
26 Xieyi 寫意 and Xieshi 寫實
Siyuan Liu
27 Shen 神 and Xing 形
Kuan-wu Lin and Siyuan Liu
PART III Arabic
28 Introduction
Khalid Amine خالد أمين
29 Notes on the Language Editing of the Arabic Section
Heba Tebakhi هبة طباخي
30 Furǧa فرجة
Khalid Amine خالد أمين
31 Faḍāʾ فضاء
Nora Amin نورا أمين and Fadil Jaf فضل جاف
32 Al-Ḥalqa الحلقة
Khalid Amine خالد أمين
33 Ǧasad جسد
Nora Amin نورا أمين , Khalid Amine خالد أمين and Fadil Jaf فاضل الجاف
34 Adāʾ أداء /Tamṯīl تمثيل
Lina Saneh لينا صانع
35 Ḥakawātī حكواتي
Shams Eldin Younis Nagmeldin شمس الدين يونس نجم الدين and Khalid Amine خالد أمين
36 Maqām مقام
Edward Ziter
37 Drāmātūrǧyā Rukḥiyya دراماتورجيا ركحية
Khalid Amine خالد أمين
38 Masraḥ Šaʿbī مسرح شعبي
Nora Amin نورا أمين and Khalid Amine خالد أمين
39 Masraḥ Mustaqill مسرح مستقل
Nora Amin نورا أمين , Khalid Amine خالد أمين , Shams Eldin Younis Nagmeldin شمس الدين يونس نجم الدين and Edward Ziter
PART IV Korean
40 Introduction
Ah-Jeong Kim and Haekyung Um
41 Notes on the Language Editing of the Korean Section
Jan Creutzenberg
42 Wonhyeong 원형
CedarBough T. Saeji and Ah-Jeong Kim
43 Gut 굿
Kim Hyunjung 김현정
44 Nori 놀이
Esther Kim Lee
45 Puri 풀이
Kim Jeongsuk 김정숙 and Ah-Jeong Kim
46 Han 한 (恨)
Shim Jung-Soon 심정순
47 Madang 마당 / Pan 판
Choi Jae-Oh 최재오
48 Gulsin 굴신 (屈伸)
CedarBough T. Saeji and Jan Creutzenberg
49 Sori 소리
Haekyung Um
50 Bak 박 (拍)
Chan E. Park
51 Imyeon 이면 (裏面)
Tara McAllister-Viel
PART V Japanese
52 Introduction
Stanca Scholz-Cionca and Nanako Nakajima 中島那奈子
53 Notes on the Language Editing of the Japanese Section
Hanna McGaughey
54 Gei 芸
Nanako Nakajima 中島那奈子
55 Hana 花/華
Hanna McGaughey
56 Jo-Ha-Kyū 序破急
Andreas Regelsberger
57 Kata 型
Andreas Regelsberger
58 Ma 間
Yamashita Yoshiteru 山下純照
59 Mitate 見立
Yamashita Yoshiteru 山下純照
60 Monomane 物真似 and Riaru リアル
M. Cody Poulton
61 Mugen 夢幻
M. Cody Poulton
62 Shintai 身体, 神体
Peter Eckersall
63 Yūgen 幽玄
Hanna McGaughey
PART VI Indian Languages
64 Introduction
Kedar A. Kulkarni
65 Notes on the Language Editing of the Indian Languages Section
Sarah Merkle-Schneider
66 Abhinaya
Anuradha Kapur
67 Āṭṭam vis-à-vis Kūttu and Līlā
Heike Oberlin
68 Classical
Anurima Banerji
69 Kathā
Kedar A. Kulkarni
70 Loknāṭya
Vasudha Dalmia
71 Nāṭak
Aparna Dharwadker
72 Nāṭya
Saskia Kersenboom
73 Rasa and Bhāva
Vinay Dharwadker
74 Riyāz
Ashok D. Ranade
75 Vēṣam
Hanne M. de Bruin
76 Vinyāsa
Vinay Dharwadker
77 Yathārthvād
Vasudha Dalmia
PART VII Outlook: Aboriginal English
78 Approaching Indigenous Performance Concepts: Aboriginal Artists Talk About Country
Helen Gilbert and Margaret Werry, with David Milroy, Dalisa Pigram and Wesley Enoch
Biography
Erika Fischer-Lichte is the director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin.
Torsten Jost is an academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin.
Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturg and translator. She was a research associate at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität Berlin (2015–2022) and has been a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2015.
