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…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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