The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel's les ballets C de la B (eBook, PDF)

Emotions, Gestures, Politics
Redaktion: Stalpaert, Christel; Vuyst, Hildegard de; Cools, Guy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984. Since then it has become a company that enjoys great success at home and abroad. Over the years, Platel has developed a unique choreographic oeuvre. His motto, 'This dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a deep social and political commitment.

Through the three topics of emotions, gestures and politics, this book unravels the choreopolitics of Platel's Les Ballets C de la B. His choreopolitics go beyond conveying a (political) message because rather than defending one opinion, Platel is more concerned about the exposure of the complexity within the debate itself.

Highly respected scholars from different fields contribute to this book to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the intense emotions, the damaged narratives, and the precarious bodies in Platel's choreographic oeuvre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350080034
• Artikelnr.: 58435150

Autorenporträt

Christel Stalpaert is Full Professor Theatre, Performance and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium where she is Director of the research centres S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) and PEPPER (Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and Performance). Guy Cools is a dance dramaturg at Ghent University, Belgium. His focus is production dramaturgy, contributing to work by choreographers all over Europe and Canada. Hildegard De Vuyst is Dramaturg of Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium, where she has worked since 1994.

Inhaltsangabe

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: Emotions 2. 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: Gestures 6. 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: Politics 11. 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) Bibliography Index