Erika Fischer-Lichte

Torsten Jost

Saskya Iris Jain

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result. Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, the UK and the US—the authors explore key issues related to theatrical speech acts, such as (post)colonial language politics; histories, practices and theories of translation for/in performance; as well as practices and processes of embodiment. With scholars from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds examining theatrical speech acts—their preconditions, their cultural and bodily dimensions as well as their manifold political effects—the book introduces readers to a crucial linguistic dimension of historical and contemporary processes of interweaving performance cultures. Ideal for drama, theater, performance, and translation scholars worldwide, Theatrical Speech Acts opens up a unique perspective on the transformative power of language in performance.

Politics, Translations, Embodiments

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language

Milos Kosic

Astrid Schenka

This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteristic features depend not least on historical as well as contemporary practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures. The book presents case studies from diverse locations around the globe, including Argentina, Canada, China, Greece, India, Poland, Singapore, and the United States. Authored by leading scholars in theater, performance and dance studies, its chapters probe not only what kinds of knowledges are (re)generated in performances, for example cultural, social, aesthetic and/or spiritual knowledges; the contributions investigate also how performers and spectators practice knowing (and not-knowing) in performances, paying particular attention to practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures and the ways in which they contribute to shaping performances as dynamic "machineries of knowing" today. Ideal for researchers, students and practitioners of theater, performance and dance, (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance explores vital knowledge-serving functions of performance, investigating and emphasizing in particular the impact and potential of practices and processes of interweaving of performance cultures that enable performers and spectators to (re)generate crucial knowledges in increasingly diverse ways.

(Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance

Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I

Małgorzata Sugiera

Holger Hartung

Omid Soltani

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.

New Approaches to Theater Historiography

Entangled Performance Histories

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) entwickelte eine einzigartige Theatertheorie. Diese verbindet Kritik an Zwangsstrukturen bürgerlicher Subjektivierung in den USA mit ganz eigenen ästhetischen Modellen und therapeutischen Empfehlungen. Steins therapeutische Wirkungsästhetik des Theaters entfaltet sich nicht in Manifesten und Traktaten, sondern in ihren frühen Romanen und autobiographischen Schriften. Daher blieb sie von der internationalen Forschung bislang unbeachtet. Torsten Josts Studie schließt diese Lücke: Stein wird als eine von William James' Psychologie inspirierte Kunst- und Theatertheoretikerin lesbar gemacht, deren Ideen sich deutlich von Theaterästhetiken der europäischen Avantgardebewegungen unterscheiden. Damit wird sie "endlich zu jener gewichtigen Stimme, die ihr im Grunde von jeher gebührt hätte." (Matthias Warstat)

Die Geschichte ihrer therapeutischen Theaterästhetik

Gertrude Stein: Nervosität und das Theater

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) entwickelte eine einzigartige Theatertheorie. Diese verbindet Kritik an Zwangsstrukturen bürgerlicher Subjektivierung in den USA mit ganz eigenen ästhetischen Modellen und therapeutischen Empfehlungen. Steins therapeutische Wirkungsästhetik des Theaters entfaltet sich nicht in Manifesten und Traktaten, sondern in ihren frühen Romanen und autobiographischen Schriften. Daher blieb sie von der internationalen Forschung bislang unbeachtet. Torsten Josts Studie schließt diese Lücke: Stein wird als eine von William James' Psychologie inspirierte Kunst- und Theatertheoretikerin lesbar gemacht, deren Ideen sich deutlich von Theaterästhetiken der europäischen Avantgardebewegungen unterscheiden. Damit wird sie "endlich zu jener gewichtigen Stimme, die ihr im Grunde von jeher gebührt hätte." (Matthias Warstat)

die Geschichte ihrer therapeutischen Theaterästhetik

Gertrude Stein, Nervosität und das Theater

Christel Weiler

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars—as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists—this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential. Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.

Torsten Jost

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