Performance in the Fourth World: An Interview with Ulla Ryum

Brask, Per; Ryum, Ulla

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“…In an interview with Per Brask from the Drama department at the City University of Winnipeg, Ryum expressed her ideas of strategies for an aboriginal theatre, pointing out that aboriginal people, the so-called Fourth World People, has started to use theatre and urban media to express their self-respect. 13 The circular or spiral dramaturgy that Ryum prescribed for the indigenous theatre would break away from the classical European dramaturgy based in Aristoteles, and it is defined as a non-Aristotelian storytelling. 14,15 However, in film, like in the film by Nils Gaup, The Pathfinder (1987), they used a standardised dramaturgical form, based on the Aristotelian tradition.…”

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Arctic Drama to Sámi Theatre – Cultural Clashes Towards Decolonisation: In Shared Dialogic Spaces

Arntzen

2021

Art History &Amp; Criticism

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Summary This article deals with the concept of Arctic Drama, which is about how there is a relationship between drama and cultural clashes in the perspective of shared cultures in the northern Scandinavian area, which is defined as arctic in the geographical sense. In this vast area the Sámi people historically and to the present day have been living from reindeer herding in a nomadic lifestyle, giving them a close relationship to nature. Norwegians and Swedes colonised this area historically, especially the coast for fishing.There have been strong cultural clashes since the Viking ages, but colonisation mainly started later by introducing Christianity by force in the 16th century. Since the Romantic age, these ethno-cultural clashes have been reflected in drama and theatre, and some plays by Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun echo these tensions. An independent theatre of the Sámi people as well as of other indigenous people in Greenland and Canada, like the Inuits, would also develop some theatrical strategies based in a dramaturgy that could be described as a “spiral dramaturgy”. Cultural independence has contributed to a decolonisation process, contributing to even out the cultural clashes in theatre and drama, which could be defined as postcolonial towards decolonisation. This article focuses on the area of arctic Scandinavia.

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Section: Cultural Clashes Towards Decolonisationmentioning

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Arctic Drama to Sámi Theatre – Cultural Clashes Towards Decolonisation: In Shared Dialogic Spaces

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Performance in the Fourth World: An Interview with Ulla Ryum

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