Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 UpSideDownCircus 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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 Štefanová
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
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