- Charts the 20-year career of French choreographer Jérôme Bel
- Provides an overview of his choreographic oeuvre as well as in-depth analysis
- Delves into the relationship between artistic practice and theory
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- About this book
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This study is the first monograph on the work of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, following his artistic trajectory from the beginning of his career as a choreographer in 1994 to his most recent piece in 2016. It contains an overview and in-depth analysis of all of his choreographies, from Nom donné par l’auteur to Disabled Theatre, and provides a theoretical reflection on their theatrical nature.
Bel has developed a singular discourse on dance that has often been labelled 'conceptual'. By reducing the stage elements in his performances to a minimum, his work explores the implications of dance as an art form that has, since the heyday of modernism, based its guiding principles on the laws of nature. Bel addresses the question of power relations in dance by working through the questions of authorship and various forms of subjectivity dance produces. Offering a unique opportunity to ground seemingly abstract academic theories in a specific embodied artistic practice, this study explores the intersection between artistic practice and theory. - About the authors
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Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He is author of numerous articles on contemporary dance and theatre performance, as well as editor of the book William Forsythe – Denken in Bewegung (2004). His other publications include Abwesenheit. Eine performative Ästhetik des Tanzes (2006), and Dance, Politics, and Co-Immunity (with Stefan Hölscher, 2013).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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“I Write for the Black Box of the Stage”: Jérôme Bel Jérôme Bel and Theatre
Pages 1-14
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Modern Subjects
Pages 15-54
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Subjects of Discourse
Pages 55-101
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Subjects of Knowledge
Pages 103-171
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Critical Subjects
Pages 173-223
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Jérôme Bel
- Book Subtitle
- Dance, Theatre, and the Subject
- Authors
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- Gerald Siegmund
- Series Title
- New World Choreographies
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-55272-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-55272-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-55271-6
- Series ISSN
- 2730-9266
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 286
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics
