Original scientific paper
Drama as Ballet: Leo Mujić's The Glembays
Marta Brkljačić
; Zagreb
Abstract
The article is concerned with the problem of adaptation, i.e. of translating an original from one art form to another drawing on a specific example of the transposition of the dramatic-fictional original (drama The Glembays and fictional fragments On the Glembays) into a ballet performance. Transposition of the original from one art form to another constitutes adaptation. The notion of adaptation (Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation, 2013) comprises a newly fashioned work (which is both unique and replicated) and the process of its creation (acts of authorial interpretation and creation). In a comparative analysis of the ballet performance of Krleža's play The Glembays by the choreographer and director Leo Mujić, a question is posed of the semantic equivalence of the original and its adaptation in the context of the semiotics of theater and the theory of drama with an emphasis on visual and non-verbal aspects of performance as key elements in the communication between a specific adapted text and its audience, as well as key elements which make up its adaptation. Ballet The Glembays foregrounds a totality of theatrical performance and dance as a distinctive art while it highlights the visual and scenic materiality of Krleža's textual originals, in particular the drama The Glembays, which carries a virtual theatrical performance (theatrical sign) and foregrounds its theatricality, enabling a theatrical adaptation which even obviates the spoken word.
Keywords
adaptation; The Glembays; drama; ballet; Leo Mujić; Miroslav Krleža
Hrčak ID:
213398
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2018.
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