What Did Jerzy Grotowski Want to Achieve

question 14

Multiple Choice

What did Jerzy Grotowski want to achieve?

• A) He wanted to break down the boundaries between the arts to achieve a more democratic theatre wherein dance, visual art, and theatre were equal partners
• B) He wanted actors and audience to undergo an event wherein they might spiritually confront themselves
• C) He wanted to aggressively confront and transform the audience politically into a revolutionary force for change that would move beyond the confines of the theatre

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Definitions:

Bias

A tendency to lean in a certain direction, either in favor of or against a particular thing, often in a way that is considered to be unfair.

Physical World

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Scientific Revolution

A paradigm shift in which a new scientific theory replaces a problematic paradigm.

Nicolaus Copernicus

A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center.