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List of contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography
PART I: Methodological Reflections
1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses
2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab World
PART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering
3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory
4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost Performance
PART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies
5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore
6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)
PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres
7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles
8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde
PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements
9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria
10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater
Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology
Index
About the author
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin.
Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full-time Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies.
Torsten Jost is a Researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin.
Holger Hartung is a theater and dance scholar from Berlin, who works at the Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin, where he oversees digital transformation.
Omid Soltani is a Researcher at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" of Freie Universität Berlin.
Summary
Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography.
