Rausch und Rahmen

Warstat, Matthias

doi:10.14361/transcript.9783839423080.107

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Following Victor Turner and Richard Schechner, Erika Fischer-Lichte ascertains that trance and ritual mark a potentially given transformative force in theater, manifest as aesthetic experience and advanced as a central theme in transformational and performative theater aesthetics. See Fischer-Lichte (2005) and Turner (1969; 2009) as well as Schechner (1991) and Warstat (2013). The aesthetic disposition of depictions of trance comes with specific scopes of experience, falling somewhere between excitement and moments of shock.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression: The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy

Huschka¹

2019

Dance Res. J.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Choreographic bodies are empowered by modes of expansion and transgression. Focusing on the energetic processes that lead to such empowerment, this article discusses the perceptual politics of trancelike scenes in the work of contemporary European choreographers and performers. As a body-mobilizing choreographic strategy of out-of-body and out-of-mind experiences, trance is closely linked to critical and utopian ideas, bodily transgressions, and crossed boundaries. While Mary Wigman treats trance as an incantation which contains the powers that it unleashes, contemporary choreographers like Doris Uhlich or Meg Stuart, expose the body to powers that nearly disintegrate it. As opposed to Wigman-style modernism, contemporary dance stages movement as a tremendous event that exposes performers and audiences to experiences of transgression.

show abstract

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression: The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy

Huschka¹

2019

Dance Res. J.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Blutrausch und Suggestion rhythmischer Gewalten, method writing und Fragerausch

Birgfeld

2019

KulturPoetik

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

„Zwischen den Welten“. Zum Konzept des Liminalen im Theater polnischer Migrant*innen in Deutschland

Szymańska

2024

Seminar

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, I ask to what extent and through what semantic means Polish theatre artists use the concept of liminality as a preferred theatrical strategy for addressing issues related to the cultural diversity of contemporary society. Particularly, I look at the rigidity and impermeability of (mental) borders in Europe, the typically difficult (or impossible) process of arriving in a new place, and the often related experience of marginalization. I analyze “staged liminality” on three levels: the personal one (the state of liminality as the mental condition of individual characters), the semantic one (the state of liminality as a metaphor for the fate of migrants and the associated sense of ambivalence and ambiguity), and the spatial one (the theatrical “representation”/”staging” of urban space as a transitional space). In doing so I highlight three constitutive elements of Polish migrant theatre by artists of the younger generation of immigrants in Germany: First, their works reflect on the issues of identity and belonging related to the concept of liminality; second, they thematize the socio-political stigmatization of migrants and refugees and the resistance it generates; and finally, the artists attempt to overcome such a state of affairs by treating theatrical activity as a kind of intervention. Turner’s concept of liminality, with its three phases, offers a productive framework to reflect on the specificity of the theatre of Polish migrants in the context of postmigrant theatre and the German theatrical landscape more generally.

show abstract

Rausch und Rahmen

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression: The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy

Aesthetic Strategies of Trance-gression: The Politics of Bodily Scenes of Ecstasy

Blutrausch und Suggestion rhythmischer Gewalten, method writing und Fragerausch

„Zwischen den Welten“. Zum Konzept des Liminalen im Theater polnischer Migrant*innen in Deutschland

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About