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Interfaces of Performance
This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines. As technologies become increasingly integrated into theatre and performance, Interfaces of Performance revisits key elements of performance practice in order to investigate emergent paradigms. To do this five concepts integral to the core of all performance are foregrounded, namely environments,...
The Art of Rehearsal
What are the key elements that go into creating a work of art for the stage? Which are the most productive conditions and methods of rehearsal? In this collection of interviews, 18 international artists share their experience and offer practical advice on the creation of performance work. Their answers provide a goldmine of tried and tested approaches as they discuss the common problems and difficulties of creative work, their turning-point experiences, and ways in which they have challenged performers and themselves to go beyond conditioned reflexes to create groundbreaking new work.
Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts
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).
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance
This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters...
Liveness on Stage
Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its ‘liveness’ can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage. Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively stage and challenge their own liveness by contrasting or approximating live and mediatised action. To illustrate this, the monograph investigates key aspects such as ‘ephemerality’, ‘co-presence’, ‘unpredictability’, ‘interaction’ and ‘realistic representation’ and highlights their significance for re-evaluating received notions of liveness. The analysis is based on productions...
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader, which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies, representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through th...
Handbook of Intermediality
This handbook offers students and researchers compact orientation in their study of intermedial phenomena in Anglophone literary texts and cultures by introducing them to current academic debates, theoretical concepts and methodologies. By combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring, it introduces students and scholars alike to a vast field of research which encompasses concepts such as intermediality, multi- and plurimediality, intermedial reference, transmediality, ekphrasis, as well as related concepts such as visual culture, remediation, adaptation, and multimodality, which are all discussed in connection with literary examples. Hence each of the 30 contributions spans both a theoretical approach and concrete analysis of literary texts from different centuries and different Anglophone cultures.
Protest, Kunst und Theater auf YouTube
Welche Bedeutung haben YouTube und die dort veröffentlichten Videos und Kommentarspalten für neue Formen von Protest, Kunst und Theater? Die vorliegende Studie geht dieser Frage nach und analysiert mit theaterwissenschaftlichen und empirischen kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Methoden, wie sich Inszenierungen zu intermedialen Akteursnetzwerken zwischen Gesellschaft und Technik entfalten und dabei neue Öffentlichkeiten jenseits der Grenzen von Online- und Offline-Welten entstehen. Mit YouTube als institutionellem Rahmen, der Videos nicht nur ‚ausstellt‘, sondern aktiv an ihren Produktions- und Rezeptionsprozessen mitwirkt, werden die Grenzen von Kommunikations- und Bühnenräumen, von Theater- und Kunstöffentlichkeiten gesprengt; lokale Protestereignisse entspinnen sich zu transnationalen Netzwerken. So erreichen Protestakteure mit ihren Botschaften zwar neue Adressaten, können zugleich aber selbst zur Zielscheibe scharfer Kritik der Online-Öffentlichkeit werden.
Vom Gespenst des Kommunismus zum Geist des Neoliberalismus
Seit dem Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts erleben die Theaterkollektive ein großes Comeback. Die neuen Kollektive scheinen das gewisse ästhetische Etwas zu haben, das die junge Zuschauergeneration bewegt und Theater plötzlich wieder spannend macht. In den frühen 1970er-Jahren wurde die kollektive Theaterpraxis von einer studentenbewegten Generation junger Theatermacher getragen und war ein direkter Ausdruck des neulinken Zeitgeists. Ist die aktuelle Renaissance des Kollektivs also als eine Repolitisierung des Theaters oder gar der Gesellschaft zu verstehen? Am Beispiel der Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer sowie der Gruppen She She Pop und Gob Squad beschäftigt sich diese Studie mit den kollekt...
