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January 2009 - Flemish dramaturge Marianne van Kerkhoven has joined our academic staff
As of January 2009, Flemish dramaturge Marianne van Kerkhoven has joined our academic staff, also participating as a member of theatre faculty at the Utrecht School of the Arts!
Van Kerkhoven is a leading dramaturge in both the Netherlands and Flanders. She has contributed greatly to the developments in post-dramatic theatre (which emerged in Flanders and the Netherlands starting in the 1980’s), and has worked with internationally renowned theatre makers Jan Lauwers / Needcompany, Guy Cassiers, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Kris Verdonck.
Particularly known for her sensitive and careful reflections on a variety of theatrical practices, her work often deals with the politics of (and within) the theatre. A wide range of publications demonstrates her breadth of understanding and practical experience with the processes involved in theatrical creation, particularly having to do with works-in-progress. As an editor of Theaterschrift and Etcetera, she fostered discussion around these topics through articles and interviews with leading artists in the field.
Due to a collaborative initiative of Utrecht University and the Utrecht School of the Arts Marianne will be in Utrecht to conduct and participate in a variety of activities. She will conduct three major interviews with theatre practitioners, beginning on January 30 with Kris Verdonck. The second interview, with Gerardjan Rijnders, is scheduled for the end of March 2009. Marianne will be the lecturer leading Theaterdramaturgy, a seminar offered in the MA Theatre Studies.
November 2008 - January 2009 Prof. Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota) holds the Belle van Zuylen chair
November 2008 - January 2009, Prof. Michal Kobialka (University of Minnesota) holds the Belle van Zuylen chair at the Faculty of the Humanities of Utrecht University. Prof. Kobialka is a Professor of Theatre at the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, University of Minnesota. He has written on medieval, contemporary European theatre, and theatre historiography.
As part of his Belle van Zuylen professorship, Prof. Kobialka organizes a lecture series with international guest speakers, an intensive seminar titled This is my Body and a study day about the work of Tadeusz Kantor. more>>
August 2008 - New book publication: Visuality in the Theatre (Palgrave), by Maaike Bleeker
Visuality in the Theatre proposes a new theoretical approach to the dynamics of looking engendered in the theatre. Visuality, this book argues, is not something we look at but something that we create by looking. Visuality is an embodied experience involving more than just the optical senses. The relationship between someone looking and something seen is fundamental to the experiences theatre and performance can evoke, while at the same time this relationship remains, to a large extent, invisible in the act of seeing. Bleeker offers a 'dissection of visuality', pointing to the close relationship between the mediations of the theatre and performance and apparatuses of vision (in both the dramatic theatre and its deconstruction on the contemporary stage).
See also Maaike Bleeker/research more>>
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