The choreopolitics of Alain Platel's Les ballets C de la B : emotions, gestures, politics /: emotions, gestures, politics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editor, Christel Stalpaert, Guy Cools, Hildegard de Vuyst.
• Editors: Stalpaert, Christel; Cools, Guy; Vuyst, Hildegard de
• Contents: Introduction: The Choreographic Work of Alain Platel in Context (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium; Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium; and Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium)1. Collaborative Dramaturgy: An Experiment in Democracy (Katalin Trencsenyi, Freelance Dramaturg, UK)Part I: Emotions2. Alain Platel is a Barbarian: Perceiving Emotions as Forms of Intelligent Awareness (Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium)3. Desire amongst the Dodgems: The Scene of Seduction (Adrian Kear, Aberystwyth University, UK)4. Platel's Quest for Embodied Salvation: A Musical Perspective on Choeurs (Francis Maes, Ghent University, Belgium)5. Poetics of Fight in Nicht Schlafen (Claire Besuelle, École Doctorale Sciences de l'homme et de la Société, France)Part II: Gestures6. How to Witness the Hyper-Sensitive Through the Virtuosic: 'I Have Never Seen Anybody Who Can Participate So Intensely While Standing Aside' (Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium)7. Choreic Gesture: Virtuosic Angularity and Alterkinetic Dance in Platel's Out of Context: For Pina (2010) (Kélina Gotman, King's College, London, UK)8. Being Alone Together: The 'Disturbance of Violent Relatedness' in La Tristeza Complice, Pitié and Tauberbach (Ann Cooper Albright, Oberlin College and Conservatory, USA)9. Staging the Precarious: Vulnerability and Sexual Identity in Gardenia (Miriam Dreysse, Universität Hildesheim, Germany)10. Schizophrenia and Resistance: On Tauberbach (Jeroen Donckers, Independent Psychotherapist, Belgium)Part III: Politics11. Catastrophe as Political Gesture: On Gestus and Hieroglyphs in Bernadetje (Erwin Jans, Dramaturg, Toneelhuis, Belgium)12. Tauberbach: A Diagrammatical Reading (Piet Defraeye, University of Alberta, Canada)13. Mourning a Europe in Crisis: En Avant, Marche! (Lourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UK)14. Troubled Pasts, Differential Futures: Platel's Choreopolitics with Les Ballets C de la B (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium)Conclusion: A Genealogical Perspective on Les Ballets C de la B's Influences and Offspring (Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University, Belgium; Guy Cools, Ghent University, Belgium; and Hildegard De Vuyst, Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.82092; Theatre studies; Performing Arts -- Dance -- Classical & Ballet; Performing Arts -- Dance -- Notation; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Philosophy -- Methodology; Choreography; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350080027; 9781350080034
• Related ISBNs: 9781350080010
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