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The year is 1986, Chicago, USA. Mark Smith, a construction worker and a young poet, sitting in a pub in the neighborhood excited. Arabian poetry reading he was organizing local jazz club are gaining momentum, and Smith understand who the winning formula: when the poet 'Operation' the His poetry and not just 'read' it, the audience listens and participates, and the popularity of the Arab rising. while Smith envisions the applause after another reading successful, he understands what to do. He got up, asking to call and dials to the Green Mill, Jazz Club.
Smith maintains that year the evening the Poetry Slam (Poetry Slam) first club. The phenomenon is spreading rapidly in the cafes and pubs in the U.S. and comes to Europe. Created a new genre: poetry performative. Evenings of poetry, taking place today, there is competition sbr forum between the participants and the audience chooses the Slammer best.
Near Jerusalem ... winter wear rags / would curl up in the dark corner of the basement / Bucket grateful that collects / all dripping / leaking roof /'d love you to write a letter if you have an answer / Write legibly on the back of an envelope / for the girl with the head above water / shelter that building over there / Jerusalem.
Building a simple dinner: ten poets are more one by one onto the stage and perform their materials. After each round they receive a score ranging from 1 to 10, but can be flexible score upwards - by random point selected from the audience at the beginning of the evening - by guiding, alternating each round. After several rounds during which 'levers' poets who received the lowest score is declared sbr forum the winner.
'Spoken word' (Spoken Word), 'word Mdovrt', is a sub - genre which are built Competitions Poetry Slam. Spoken word artist moving between the role of the poet, actor and rapper, and always performs his original material. He stood alone on the stage, sbr forum without musical accompaniment or instructions directing, without costumes or props.
Spotlight aimed at him, he should enliven the text, talk with the audience. And the crowd responded. The word is a slam Slam, beating, criticism, and indeed Slam slam master and shoots into the microphone all he has to say. Performing materials are usually Poetry sbr forum Slam with Puente and moves statement and high - high. This Spoken Word, fueled by a conversation with the audience and speak their language, peppered sbr forum with humor and puns, and sometimes blunt.
Allowed to talk about everything - love, politics, racism, a - God, the bus line. Subversive, anti-academic, far western classical poetry readings. Have criticized the genre, argue that flattening the high culture and impose any doubt if this is poetry.
According to Alan Fotls mentioned, actress and one of the organizers initially Arab Poetry sbr forum Slam, certainly that song. "This is faster sbr forum than a game that has no avatar. Whether I as an actor performs a monologue, I enter another character, I now Clmnsa' Hanoch Levin's play` object ', I do not Allen. It gives me, as a performer, a lot of the strength of character, on the other place to hide.
"Poetry Slam's just me and the materials I have written. Impossible to hide, that I'm there. Never heard of a participant came up with things that are not his. All original materials. Because it was designed to be performed is important Rhyme and weight, rate of speech, tone, valium.'s What making the musical genre., but very broad involvement words and text makes it poetry.
"I love Alterman, and I think the genre is almost still the same, at least in his role as a playwright, writing poetry, but able to make the transition to the world stage. Example in 'The King and the Cobbler, has his lines that I really like:' Palace is what I'm running around / and around most glittering splendor and glory ... / and everyone speaks Hebrew flowery - I explode! ".
"Rhyme flowery and explodes it to do the same thing - but Bfiftiz of the Hebrew language. Spoken word say words more blunt exploding, but still. sbr forum On the one hand the world of poetry and content, literature and culture, but bottom line populations and folk. Become here and now, that Player's teachings, and Alterman's ".
"An actor is a person whose job is to revive words. sbr forum Sentence I see the page and I have to make the audience and the camera believe it alive., Without player play nice, but I do not know many people who call plays for fun. Emotional dimension does not it.
"Slam Poetry, in this sense, is singing theatrical. He does not trust it to sit and read: operation responsible for bringing his audience to a place that wants to have it. Whether I am angry, everyone participating in this experience.'s How I started with Salam. Wrote interrupted all the time I to. would open the file on your computer, change words here and there. suddenly realized that what is missing in this section execution. while the top is one-dimensional, if I take it, it can grow into something else. way I wrote the section on the siren on Memorial Day at the banks. "
In the poet in question an empty house to meet at banks in Jerusalem two minutes of the siren. Section touches on the memorial and remembrance, Israel, and the connection between the various people who are there, and even Arab minibus that goes in the middle.
"I was engaged in a daily commemoration at the time. Started writing it rolled salami section. sbr forum For me, the performance given section the perfect volume. Saw that it was good, and I continued to write another album in the same genre. Ultimately I'm an actress. Write something like that and leave it on top This is half the work for me. has spoken word songs can stand on their own and come out on top as a book of poetry, but lacking something, like a salad with no dressing, no pepper ".
Every evening poetry readings, I often consider who the audience. And the audience has grown, the overwhelming majority, and I