360° Circus

Meaning. Practice. Culture
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-213852-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 338 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.

The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDown—Circus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trapp, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Welcome to the Wonderland of Contemporary Circus

Franziska Trapp

Part I: Circus Meaning

Chapter 1. Circus Does Not Exist

Jean-Michel Guy

Chapter 2. "La Putyka" by Cirk La Putyka: A Glimpse at Czech Contemporary Circus

Veronika Štefanová



Part II: Circus Practice

Chapter 3. On Mutations of Forms, Style, and Meaning: From a Traditional to a Contemporary Trapeze Act

Sandy Sun

Chapter 4. Articulating Hand-Balancing: Finding Space for Critical Self-Transformation

Camilla Damkjaer

Chapter 5. Extreme Symbiosis

Louise Von Euler Bjurholm and Henrik Agger

Chapter 6. Hamlet: To Have Written or Not to Have Written for the Tightwire

Louis Patrick Leroux

Chapter 7. Verticality, Gravity, Sense of Balance. Transmitting a Technique, Conveying a Sensation: Practices and Discourses of Circus Arts Teachers

Agathe Dumont

Chapter 8. Reading Circus. Dramaturgy on the Border of Art and Academia

Franziska Trapp

Chapter 9. UpSideDown Circus and Space

Die Zeichner. Andreas Gärtner

Part III: Circus Culture

Chapter 10. Circus Between Technique and Technology: Heideggerian "Enframing" and the Contested Space of Free Expression

Sebastian Kann

Chapter 11. Chaplin, Brecht, Fo: Toward a Concept of Epic Clowning

Gaia Vimercati

Chapter 12. To Walk the Tightwire

Ante Ursic

Chapter 13. The Spatiality of Australian Contemporary Circus

Kristy Seymour

Chapter 14. Cheerful, Nostalgic, Melancholic: Mood in Circus

Peta Tait

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Franziska Trapp is a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Riikka Juutinen is a Finnish Master of Social Sciences from the University of Tampere with Social Anthropology as her major subject. She is interested in questions of transnationalism and mobility, and in her master’s thesis, she focused on themes about circus and mobility studies. Juutinen completed an internship at the international conference UpSideDown—Circus at Zirkus Wissenschaft research project in 2017. Since then her area of work has been crisis work, child protection and work with people with substance issues.