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The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – June/Juin 2024: Issue No 29

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Essays
Inter/National Reflections
Interviews
Performance Reviews
Book Reviews
Thalia Prize
In Memoriam

Extended Dance Territories – Guest Editors’ Note

Extended Dance Territories – Guest Editors’ Note

Margareta Sörenson, Steriani Tsintziloni

“True Art Consists of Gaps”: Interview with Cristina Caprioli – the Golden Lion in Venezia Biennale de la Danza 2024

“True Art Consists of Gaps”: Interview with Cristina Caprioli – the Golden Lion in Venezia Biennale de la Danza 2024

By Maina Arvas

Steve Paxton (1939-2024): Contact Improvisation for Generations

Steve Paxton (1939-2024): Contact Improvisation for Generations

Hilde Rustad

Dialogue in Motion or Reading the Present from the Past: Interview with Maria Martha Gigena

Dialogue in Motion or Reading the Present from the Past: Interview with Maria Martha Gigena

By Halima Tahan Ferreyra

Bridging Cultural Divides Through the Art of Chinese Dance: Interview with Ma Jiaolong (马蛟龙) and Zhao Zhibo (赵知博)

Bridging Cultural Divides Through the Art of Chinese Dance: Interview with Ma Jiaolong (马蛟龙) and Zhao Zhibo (赵知博)

Zhao Yang

Southern Dance Hall: Movement and Community in Post Pandemic Guangzhou, Southern China

Southern Dance Hall: Movement and Community in Post Pandemic Guangzhou, Southern China

Tiantian XIE

Visions and Gifts: Martha Graham, Memory and Practice

Visions and Gifts: Martha Graham, Memory and Practice

Kim Jones and Fen Kennedy

How African is Africa? Postnormality and Futures Assessment of Indigenous Dance Art in Nigeria

How African is Africa? Postnormality and Futures Assessment of Indigenous Dance Art in Nigeria

Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo, Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah

Art Therapy in a Country at War: Ukraine’s Contemporary Dance Practices

Art Therapy in a Country at War: Ukraine’s Contemporary Dance Practices

Lyudmila Mova, Viktor Ruban, Hanna Veselovska

Towards a Poetics of Affectability: Dance in More-Than-Human Worlds

Towards a Poetics of Affectability: Dance in More-Than-Human Worlds

Jonas Schnor

Dancing with AI: Unveiling the Potentials and Pitfalls of ChatGPT for a New Wave of Dance Critics and Criticism

Dancing with AI: Unveiling the Potentials and Pitfalls of ChatGPT for a New Wave of Dance Critics and Criticism

Deanne Kearney

Connecting and Disconnecting Bodies

Connecting and Disconnecting Bodies

Johannes Birringer

Commmunal Choreographies: Claiming the Embodied Public Sphere in Recent Climate Activism

Commmunal Choreographies: Claiming the Embodied Public Sphere in Recent Climate Activism

Susanne Foellmer

Land/ing Dance—Of Hosting and Being Hosted: Guest Curating in Dance

Land/ing Dance—Of Hosting and Being Hosted: Guest Curating in Dance

Angela Conquet

La danse élargit ses territoires : Évolution de la danse contemporaine en France au XXI siècle

La danse élargit ses territoires : Évolution de la danse contemporaine en France au XXI siècle

Jean Couturier

Staging Aging in Queer Style

Staging Aging in Queer Style

Josephine Leask

Reaching Out for the Search Within: Sushant Gaurav Dances a Kathak of His Own

Reaching Out for the Search Within: Sushant Gaurav Dances a Kathak of His Own

Ajay Joshi

Re-Thinking Autobiographical Choreo-Performance as a Window to Activism

Re-Thinking Autobiographical Choreo-Performance as a Window to Activism

Magda Barouta

Situating Choreographies of the Real in Elefsina: <em>Mystery 59 U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography: dance MyS+eries / Season 2</em>

Situating Choreographies of the Real in Elefsina: Mystery 59 U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography: dance MyS+eries / Season 2

Maria Konomi

Sinikka Gripenberg: A Dance Life in Photos

Sinikka Gripenberg: A Dance Life in Photos

Margareta Sörenson

Towards a Poetics of Affectability: Dance in More-Than-Human Worlds

Towards a Poetics of Affectability: Dance in More-Than-Human Worlds

Jonas Schnor

Art Therapy in a Country at War: Ukraine’s Contemporary Dance Practices

Art Therapy in a Country at War: Ukraine’s Contemporary Dance Practices

Lyudmila Mova, Viktor Ruban, Hanna Veselovska

Extended Dance Territories – Guest Editors’ Note

Extended Dance Territories – Guest Editors’ Note

Margareta Sörenson, Steriani Tsintziloni

Land/ing Dance—Of Hosting and Being Hosted: Guest Curating in Dance

Land/ing Dance—Of Hosting and Being Hosted: Guest Curating in Dance

Angela Conquet

Essays

The Silent Genocide and its Afterlives: Witnessing and Remembering Traumatic Histories in Rahul Varma’s State of Denial

The Silent Genocide and its Afterlives: Witnessing and Remembering Traumatic Histories in Rahul Varma’s State of Denial

Aamna Rashid

De la thysia Grecques aux créations d’Angélica Liddell : Une problématisation du sacrifice à partir de l’action théâtrale

De la thysia Grecques aux créations d’Angélica Liddell : Une problématisation du sacrifice à partir de l’action théâtrale

Martina Tosticarelli

The New Wave of Belarus Drama

The New Wave of Belarus Drama

Natalia Skorokhod

Audience Involvement, Multiple Layering, and Resonances in <em>Numbers Increase As We Count…</em>

Audience Involvement, Multiple Layering, and Resonances in Numbers Increase As We Count…

Ülfet Sevdi

“Where We Die Together in Real Time”: Staging Prosthetic Liveness in <em>To Be a Machine (Version 1.0)</em>

“Where We Die Together in Real Time”: Staging Prosthetic Liveness in To Be a Machine (Version 1.0)

Huayu Yang

The Macro in the Micro: Using Theatre Festivals to Test the Temperature of the Industry

The Macro in the Micro: Using Theatre Festivals to Test the Temperature of the Industry

Dermot Daly

Choreography οf Life: Kristīne Brīniņa and Her Documentary Dance Method

Choreography οf Life: Kristīne Brīniņa and Her Documentary Dance Method

Kitija Balcare

Looking With “Fingeryeyes”: An Exploration of Material Touch in Sonja Jokiniemi’s Performances <em>Blab</em> and <em>Howl</em>

Looking With “Fingeryeyes”: An Exploration of Material Touch in Sonja Jokiniemi’s Performances Blab and Howl

Lieze Roels

The Dance Movement of Bengal: Rabindranath and His Dance-Dramas

The Dance Movement of Bengal: Rabindranath and His Dance-Dramas

Nilanjana Bhattacharya

Inter/National Reflections

Planning Europe’s Future Theatre

Planning Europe’s Future Theatre

Savas Patsalidis

The Price of Water: Reflections on an Anthropological Play

The Price of Water: Reflections on an Anthropological Play

Maria Kastrinou, Hannah Knoerk and Johannes Birringer

A Promising Restart: The “Mini” Showcase of Bulgaria’s National Theatre

A Promising Restart: The “Mini” Showcase of Bulgaria’s National Theatre

Savas Patsalidis

The BeSeTo Festival is Back to Splendid Life in Shenzhen

The BeSeTo Festival is Back to Splendid Life in Shenzhen

Kalina Stefanova

How to Resist?

How to Resist?

Milo Rau

Interviews

“Living” Beyond “Correctness”: Words, Enemies, and Media. Interview with Misaki Setoyama
A Festival that Shape-shifted to Stay Alive: Interview with Mark Russell
Past and Present Meet Head-on: Interview with Christiane Jatahy
“Tools. No Rules.”: An Interview with Roberta Levitow
How Can we Act Together? Declaration of the Free Republic of Wien: Interview with Milo Rau

“Living” Beyond “Correctness”: Words, Enemies, and Media. Interview with Misaki Setoyama

“Living” Beyond “Correctness”: Words, Enemies, and Media. Interview with Misaki Setoyama

A Festival that Shape-shifted to Stay Alive: Interview with Mark Russell

A Festival that Shape-shifted to Stay Alive: Interview with Mark Russell

Past and Present Meet Head-on: Interview with Christiane Jatahy

Past and Present Meet Head-on: Interview with Christiane Jatahy

“Tools. No Rules.”: An Interview with Roberta Levitow

“Tools. No Rules.”: An Interview with Roberta Levitow

How Can we Act Together? Declaration of the Free Republic of Wien: Interview with Milo Rau

How Can we Act Together? Declaration of the Free Republic of Wien: Interview with Milo Rau

Performance Reviews

A Very Moving <em>Hamlet</em>

A Very Moving Hamlet

Patricia Keeney

Robert Wilson, Declan Donnellan, Robert Lepage in a Nutshell

Robert Wilson, Declan Donnellan, Robert Lepage in a Nutshell

Yun-Cheol Kim

<em>Incandescences</em> d’Ahmed Madani – De la catharsis comique

Incandescences d’Ahmed Madani – De la catharsis comique

Selim Lander

Albee Deconstructed: Robert Wilson’s <em>Three Tall Women</em>

Albee Deconstructed: Robert Wilson’s Three Tall Women

Antonia Tsamouris

The Quest of Turkey’s Independent Theatres

The Quest of Turkey’s Independent Theatres

Savas Patsalidis

More than (Classical) Dance

More than (Classical) Dance

Penelope Chatzidimitriou

Sofi Oksanen on Russian Anti-Gay Practices

Sofi Oksanen on Russian Anti-Gay Practices

Matti Linnavuori

Once Upon a Time . . . Through a Glass Darkly

Once Upon a Time . . . Through a Glass Darkly

Soila Lehtonen

Of Balance, Oscillation and Feeling: A Twenty-first-century Circus Experience

Of Balance, Oscillation and Feeling: A Twenty-first-century Circus Experience

Katharine Kavanagh

Book Reviews

Michel Tremblay: Plays in Scots (Two Vols.)

Michel Tremblay: Plays in Scots (Two Vols.)

Mark Fisher

Theatre in a Post-Truth World: Text, Politics and Performance

Theatre in a Post-Truth World: Text, Politics and Performance

Katayoun Salmasi

Le Sacrifice comme acte poétique

Le Sacrifice comme acte poétique

Selim Lander

The Great White Bard: How To Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How To Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Don Rubin

Thalia Prize

2024 Thalia Prize Ceremony

2024 Thalia Prize Ceremony

2024 Thalia Prize Ceremony

In Memoriam

Edward Bond: The Missed Voice of a True Socialist Writer

Edward Bond: The Missed Voice of a True Socialist Writer

Elizabeth Sakellaridou

René Pollesch (1962-2024): the Great Post-dramatic Auteur Director

René Pollesch (1962-2024): the Great Post-dramatic Auteur Director

Thomas Irmer

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