Christel Stalpaert

Bruno Forment

n accessible essays written by theater and music scholars, performers, directors, conservators, and administrators from Europe and the United States, new methods are advanced to reactivate the theatrical past.

Challenges and Opportunities

Theatrical Heritage

Guy Cools

Hildegard De Vuyst

Introduction / Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools and Hildegard De Vuyst -- A dramaturgy of stuttering / Guy Cools -- 'An experiment in democracy' : Alain Platel's collaborative dramaturgy / Katalin Trencsényi -- Alain wins a prize / Hildegard De Vuyst -- Being alone together : Alain Platel and the 'disturbance of violent relatedness' in La Tristeza Complice (1995), pitié! (2008) and tauberbach (2014) / Ann Cooper Albright -- Desire amongst the dodgems : Alain Platel and the scene of seduction / Adrian Kear -- Alain Platel's quest for embodied salvation : a musical perspective on C(H)ŒURS / Francis Maes -- Skin tests : views on nicht schlafen / Claire Besuelle -- Platel is a barbarian / Hildegard De Vuyst -- Bernadetje, catastrophes and gestures / Erwin Jans -- Choreic gesture : virtuosic angularity, alterkinetic dance in Platel's Out of context--for Pina / Kélina Gotman -- Staging the precarious : vulnerability and sexual identity in Alain Platel's Gardenia / Miriam Dreysse -- tauberbach, a diagrammatical reading : the body between self and language / Piet Defraeye -- Schizophrenia and resistance : on tauberbach / Jeroen Donckers -- Mourning a Europe in crisis : les Ballets C de la B's En avant, marche! (2015) / Lourdes Orozco -- Troubled pasts and presents, differential futures : Alain Platel's choreopolitics with les Ballets C de la B / Christel Stalpaert -- Offspring / Hildegard De Vuyst, Christel Stalpaert and Guy Cools.

Emotions, Gestures, Politics

The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's Les Ballets C de la B

Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment. Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book unravels the choreopolitics of Platel's Les Ballets C de la B. His choreopolitics go beyond conveying a (political) message because rather than defending one opinion, Platel is more concerned about the exposure of the complexity within the debate itself. Highly respected scholars from different fields contribute to this book to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the intense emotions, the damaged narratives, and the precarious bodies in Platel's choreographic oeuvre.

The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B

The critical essays collected in this volume reflect Greenaway's relocation of The Tempest along the fundamentally unstable boundaries between different discursive formations.

Critical Essays

Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books

Bram Van Oostveldt

Jaak Van Schoor

The contributors to this volume address theater's role as the mirror of a perfect society and its strikingly international orientation in the Austrian 18th century.

New Directions in Historical and Methodological Research

Performing Arts in the Austrian 18th Century

Staging Prototypes of Composite Bodies

Performance and Posthumanism

Frederik Le Roy

Sigrid Bousset

This book is the first collection of critical essays to appear about Needcompany, a prominent, Brussels-based international theater company.

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