Performing—Feeling,
Auto-Transformation,
and Expression
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Performing—Feeling, Auto-Transformation, and Expression Tang Shu-wing and His Theatre Studio in Hong Kong
Performing—Feeling, Auto-Transformation, and Expression Tang Shu-wing and His Theatre Studio in Hong Kong

Author(s): Tang Shu-wing, Marzenna Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Tang Shu-wing; Asian theater; physical theater; actor’s training;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the multifaceted persona of Tang Shu-wing, an acclaimed director, actor, and drama teacher, and examines his profound connections with the Polish theater tradition, particularly Jerzy Grotowski. The text also discusses Tang Shu-wing’s Shakespearean productions staged in Warsaw and Gdańsk. Marzenna Wiśniewska’s introduction contextualizes the appendix, which contains the edited transcript of a lecture delivered by Tang Shu-wing during the international online conference Contemporary Acting Techniques in Eurasian Theatre, Performance and Audiovisual Art: Intercultural and Intermedia Perspective (2021). In this lecture, thedirector characterizes the main ideas underlying his actor training and work on performances at the Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio in Hong Kong. An essential part of the presentation is the characterization of Tang Shu-wing’s philosophy of art, including the four stages of an artist’s development and the methodology of authorial performance grounded in pre-verbal expression and body-based mini- malist aesthetics.

  • Issue Year: 72/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 57-71
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English
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