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Jeroen Fabius / Research
Material political bodies
The central question of Jeroen's PhD dissertation is how the material body contributes to the political significance of theatre dance. His study focuses on developments in theatre dance in the second half of the twentieth century, in particular the 1960's Judson Dance Theatre in New York and the 'conceptual' dance of 1990’s Western Europe. In both periods choreographers dealt with the body explicitly as subject matter for making dance. This research project investigates in which ways theatre dance can be termed 'political', denoting a moment in social relations when the balance of power can shift or can be challenged, with consequent friction and disagreement. His focus is on how dancing bodies contribute to these processes. The theoretical repercussions for this consideration of how concrete bodily activities contribute to ideological representation move beyond the reduction of such activities to mere products or constructions of these ideological processes. In order to specify aspects of embodiment Jeroen explores various forms of bodily experience (proprioception) and movement experience (kinesthesia), both of which play a crucial role in dance but about which relatively little has been written in relation to possible political considerations.
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