Routledge Theatre and Performance - Books and Journals @routledge_tandp Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance Meengs with Remarkable Women By Virginie Magnat ORDER YOUR COPY ONLINE OR OVERLEAF AND GET 20% OFF! Add discount code GRO13 at checkout on www.bit.ly/GrotowskiandWomen to order a copy with the 20% discount. Don’t forget to click update cart to make sure the discount is applied. Hb: 978-0-415-81359-4: $125.00 $100.00 July 2013: 256pp About the Author Virginie Magnat is Assistant Professor of Performance at the University of Brish Columbia, Okanagan, Canada. Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies As the first examinaon of women's foremost contribuons to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural invesgaon of performance, this book complements and broadens exisng literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance pracce and research. Although the parcularly strenuous physical training emblemac of Grotowski's approach is not gender specific, it has historically been associated with a masculine concepon of the performer incarnated by Ryszard Cieslak in The Constant Prince, thus overlooking the work of Rena Mirecka, Maja Komorowska, and Elizabeth Albahaca, to name only the leading women performers idenfied with the period of theatre producons. This book therefore redresses this imbalance by focusing on key women from different cultures and generaons who share a direct connecon to Grotowski's legacy while clearly asserng their arsc independence. These women acvely parcipated in all phases of the Polish director’s praccal research, and connue to play a vital role in today’s transnaonal community of arsts whose work reflects Grotowski’s enduring influence. Grounding her inquiry in her embodied research and on-going collaboraon with these arsts, Magnat explores the interrelaon of creavity, embodiment, agency, and spirituality within their performing and teaching. Building on current debates in performance studies, experimental ethnography, Indigenous research, global gender studies, and ecocricism, the author maps out interconnecons between these women's disnct arsc pracces across the boundaries that once delineated Grotowski's theatrical and post-theatrical experiments.