360° Circus (eBook, ePUB)

Meaning. Practice. Culture
Redaktion: Trapp, Franziska

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000889345
• Artikelnr.: 68078026

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 tefanová
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