Kai van Eikels

Heiner Goebbels

Eva Holling

Bernhard Siebert

Gerald Siegmund

Ivana Müller

Isabelle Barbéris

Katia Arfara

Eliane Beaufils

Chloé Déchery

Leon Gabriel

Narges Hashempour

Stéphane Hervé

Marie Preston

Marie Vandenbussche-Cont

The concept of being-with developed by the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy asks a fundamental question about human life, inasmuch as we have always been and will be co-existent with people and environments. All modes of sense-making and subjectivation, but also presence, can only occur within a context and through interaction. This is why historical forms of theater have frequently been viewed as sites of communality and why critical approaches have questioned concepts such as 'sense', 'meaning' and 'habitus'. Like literature, theater has also inherited the scene of myth: It satisfies our need for narration, interpretation and to share in something. In turn, the joint creation of meaning in scenic practices is also part of the traditional idealization of the theater – but is this ideal purely mythical? The authors of this book investigate and explore how meaning is being questioned or liberated in contemporary performances, and how individual thinking/action can be articulated to others, paving the way for other gestures, theatrical processes of recognition and the performative sharing process (of sense-making).

Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts

This study is the first monograph on the work of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, following his artistic trajectory from the beginning of his career as a choreographer in 1994 to his most recent piece in 2016. It contains an overview and in-depth analysis of all of his choreographies, from Nom donné par l’auteur to Disabled Theatre, and provides a theoretical reflection on their theatrical nature. Bel has developed a singular discourse on dance that has often been labelled 'conceptual'. By reducing the stage elements in his performances to a minimum, his work explores the implications of dance as an art form that has, since the heyday of modernism, based its guiding principles on the laws of nature. Bel addresses the question of power relations in dance by working through the questions of authorship and various forms of subjectivity dance produces. Offering a unique opportunity to ground seemingly abstract academic theories in a specific embodied artistic practice, this study explores the intersection between artistic practice and theory.

Dance, Theatre, and the Subject

Jérôme Bel

Randy Martin

Rebekah J. Kowal

In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that address the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability, postcolonial, and critical race and queer studies. In six sections 30 of the most prestigious dance scholars in the US and Europe track the political economy of dance and analyze the political dimensions of choreography, of writing history, and of embodied phenomena in general. Employing years of intimate knowledge of dance and its cultural phenomenology, scholars urge readers to re-think dominant cultural codes, their usages, and the meaning they produce and theorize ways dance may help to re-signify and to re-negotiate established cultural practices and their inherent power relations. This handbook poses ever-present questions about dance politics-which aspects or effects of a dance can be considered political? What possibilities and understandings of politics are disclosed through dance? How does a particular dance articulate or undermine forces of authority? How might dance relate to emancipation or bondage of the body? Where and how can dance articulate social movements, represent or challenge political institutions, or offer insight into habits of labor and leisure? The handbook opens its critical terms in two directions. First, it offers an elaborated understanding of how dance achieves its politics. Second, it illustrates how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance, thus addressing both the relationship between the politics in dance and the politics of dance. Using the most sophisticated theoretical frameworks and engaging with the problematics that come from philosophy, social science, history, and the humanities, chapters explore the affinities, affiliations, concepts, and critiques that are inherent in the act of dance, and questions about matters political that dance makes legible.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics

Philipp Schulte

Olivia Ebert

Nikolaus Müller-Schöll

Vor dem Hintergrund der Krise klassischer Begründungen des Theaters sowie der Kritik am Theater beleuchten die Beiträge des Bandes dessen Geschichte, Theorie und Fragen neu. Hierbei stellen sie nicht die Gegenstände der Kritik des Theaters zur Debatte, sondern präsentieren aktuelle Untersuchungen zum kritischen Potenzial von Theater - und zum Theatralen der Kritik.

Theorie, Geschichte und Praktiken der Ent-Unterwerfung

Theater als Kritik

semiotische und psychoanalytische Untersuchungen zur Funktion des Dramas

Theater als Gedächtnis

Anton Bierl

Christoph Meneghetti

Clemens Schuster

Jede Form der Kunst hat es notwendigerweise mit dem Fragmentarischen zu tun, insofern sie kulturelle Normen und Diskurse zerteilt und unterbricht. Die in diesem Sinne performativen Künste eröffnen Zwischenräume, in denen Verschiebungen des Gehörten, Gesehenen und Gefühlten möglich werden. Dies gilt für postdramatische Theaterformen in ihrem Verhältnis zum hegemonialen Diskurs ebenso wie für die prädramatischen Formen der antiken Tragödie. Der Band unternimmt den Versuch, beide Theaterformen in ihrem fragmentierenden Gestus zusammenzudenken, um sie als Inter-Medium zu begreifen, welches Fremderfahrung in der Selbsterfahrung möglich macht.__

Performative Strategien im Theater zwischen Antike und Postmoderne

Theater des Fragments

Gerald Siegmund

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