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Staging Monstrous Bodies
Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies. Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, anti-racism and post-colonial issues, and monstrosity as an artistic practice and dramaturgical process, which discursively cross-pollinate the different sections of the book. The first section, The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies, examines queer-feminist performance, bodybuilding as monstrous, mo...
On Reenactment
This book brings together dance and visual arts scholars to investigate the key methodological and theoretical issues concerning reenactment. Along with becoming an effective and widespread contemporary artistic strategy, reenactment is taking shape as a new anti-positivist approach to the history of dance and art, undermining the notion of linear time and suggesting new temporal encounters between past, present, and future. As such, reenactment has contributed to a move towards different forms of historical thinking and understanding that embrace cultural studies – especially intertwining gender, postcolonial, and environmental issues – in the redefinition of knowledge, historical disco...
Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War
In almost every area of production, German theatre of the past forty years has achieved a level of distinction unique in the international community. This flourishing theatrical culture has encouraged a large number of outstanding actors, directors, and designers as well as video and film artists. The dominant figure throughout these years, however, has remained the director. In this stimulating and informative book, noted theatre historian Marvin Carlson presents an in-depth study of the artistic careers, working methods, and most important productions of ten of the leading directors of this great period of German staging. Beginning with the leaders of the new generation that emerged in the...
Body Impossible
Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. Focusing on Richardson's creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socio-culturally attentive understanding of virtuosity.
Gestural Imaginaries
Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.
Open Wounds
This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striv...
The Veiled Monologues Special Section
This issue of Theater features a special section dedicated to the first English translation of Adelheid Roosens critically acclaimed and sensational play The Veiled Monologues. Premiering in the Netherlands amid death threats due to its controversial and sexual content, The Veiled Monologues is based on Roosens interviews with hundreds of Muslim women from around the world who emigrated to the Netherlands. The monologues, delivered onstage by Dutch Muslim actresses, powerfully reveal the challenges for Muslim women as they contend with issues of intimacy, sexuality, and love across complicated cultural and political divides. The issue also explores other artistic encounters between the Musli...
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Szenen des Virtuosen
»Das ist virtuos!« Dieses Urteil kann sich auf alles beziehen, was jemand so (über-)steigert, dass es andere zu exzessiven Reaktionen motiviert: zu tosendem Beifall ebenso wie zu Tumult oder Protest. Gabriele Brandstetter, Bettina Brandl-Risi und Kai van Eikels untersuchen die besondere Steigerung, die Virtuosität ausmacht, in der gesamten Bandbreite menschlicher Tätigkeiten. Sie erkennen in den Szenen des Virtuosen Verbindungen und Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Kunst, Politik, Ökonomie, Technik und Gesellschaft – vom antiken Ideal der »arete« bis zur »collective virtuosity« in postfordistischen Arbeitskulturen und in Tanz und Performance des 21. Jahrhunderts.
