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colleague </span></p>
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might be interested in attending an online book launch for my book <i>Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes</i>,
which came out recently on Bloomsbury. Details of the launch are as
follows:</span></p>
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2 December</span></p>
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17:00 GMT</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Registration:
<a href="https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMF5KyywRbuWnP8dbK7sLg" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://universityofmalta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hMF5KyywRbuWnP8dbK7sLg</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
launch will be introduced by Dr Mario Frendo, Head of Theatre Studies
Department, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta. It will also
feature an intervention from Dr Claire Warden, Creative Arts, Loughborough
University, UK.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A short description of the book follows. More information on the publication
can be found <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Book Description</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">What did modern theatre in Russia look like and how did it
foreground tradition building and transmission processes? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The book challenges conventional historiographical approaches </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">by
weaving contemporary theories on cultural transmission into its historical
narrative. <span style="color:black"> It
argues that processes of transmission – </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">training spaces, acting manuals, photographic evidence, newspaper
reports, international networking, informal encounters, cultural memories –
contribute to the formation and consolidation of theatre traditions. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Through English translations of rare Russian sources, the book
expounds on:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">side-lined material on Stanislavsky,
including his relationship with German actor Ludwig Barnay, use of
improvisation at the First Studio, and rehearsal practices for <i>Artists and Admirers </i>(1933);</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Valentin Smyshlaev’s acting manual <i>The Technique to Process Stage Performance </i>and
the creation of hybrid practices;</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">proletarian theatre as an
amateur-professional combination and force in the transformation of everyday
life, as seen in the Proletkult’s volume <i>Art
at the Workers’ Clubs</i>;<i> </i></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Meyerhold’s Borodin Studio as an early
example of Practice as Research, his European tour of 1930, and international
persona as depicted in newspapers published in the West;</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Asja </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lācis’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> work with children, which
contributes to current efforts to <span style="color:black">readdress the
gender imbalance that is often characteristic of modernism.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This
historical-theoretical investigation is allied to practical exercises that
provide a more experiential understanding of the modern performance realities
involved. In this way, the book will not only speak to theatre scholars and
historians but also to students and practitioners engaged in practical work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina" target="_blank">Dr Stefan Aquilina</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Director, <a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts" target="_blank">School of Performing Arts</a></font></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Senior Lecturer, <a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre" target="_blank">Department of Theatre Studies</a></font></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of Malta</font></div></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Co-Director, <a href="https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Stanislavsky Research Centre</a></div><div>Director, <a href="http://www.ctatt.org/" target="_blank">CTATT Research Project</a></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Book Publications: </font></font></div><div><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/amateur-and-proletarian-theatre-in-post-revolutionary-russia-9781350170971/" target="_blank">Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary Sources</a></span></i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> (forthcoming; Bloomsbury)</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/" target="_blank">Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes</a> </i>(2020; Bloomsbury)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore" target="_blank">Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives </a></i>(2018; Malta University Press)</font></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/" target="_blank">Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across Continents</a> </i>(2017; Bloomsbury)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">And: </font></div><div><font size="2"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VGNPYBKQIFGT7WFPYIU5/full?target=10.1080%2F20567790.2020.1718862&fbclid=IwAR0Xc0Tty3MmdpAe8w3bDSMWryXU_D5Th849EGagicnN5dTUgV_3-8W8-5Q" target="_blank">'Teaching Stanislavsky: Periodization and the Formation of Theatre Canons'</a>, in <i>Stanislavski Studies</i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/uhHcNSkG4YyrNfXcYeRC/full?target=10.1080%2F19443927.2018.1538018&fbclid=IwAR0pshmq_mwx1EMz8QYLA2dBLn2Sgn26HQiAaTce1e8ypHZwXZtbPfnaayg" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">'Cultural Transmission of Actor Training Techniques'</a>, in <em>Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (</em>Routledge), 10:1, pp. 4-20.</font></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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