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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-
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Emotional Participation : the use of the observer’s emotions as a methodological tool when studying professional stage actors rehearsing a role for the stage
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - Stockholm : Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 21, s. 29-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution aims to identify and clarify emotional aspects of conducting observation studies. The researcher, in most cases, does not want to interfere with or influence the phenomenon under observation, but uses her/himself as a tool to collect material. Even if the observer does not participate verbally, s/he can be emotionally participative using her/his emotions as a methodological tool, generating reflections and insights relative to the situations and persons that are the object of observation. Earlier contributions from social anthropology and psychotherapy are discussed and compared to examples from observations on the rehearsals of two theatre productions. One crucial point is that the researcher’s emotions can be more or less congruent with the situation at hand; a match as well as a mis-match can be used as information in the research process. Furthermore, the emotional expressions displayed by professional actors can be more or less emotionally anchored within them. Do the observer’s feelings correlate with the research subjects’ felt emotions or their portrayed emotions? Reflections on these issues can be used in interviews with research subjects to attain a more nuanced and tangible interpretation of the studied phenomenon.
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- Bork Petersen, Franziska, 1982-
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On Multiple Appearances : An Analysis of the Performing Body in Kitt Johnson's Drift
- 2012
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 24, s. 44-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On Multiple Appearances: An Analysis of the Performing Body in Kitt Johnson's Drift In the article, I challenge the prevalent use of phenomenology in dance scholarship, which focusses on the dancer's experience of her body when dancing. This approach often implies the problematic assumption that the dancer's experience is immediately transferred to the spectators who, in turn, are universally 'moved' by her dancing body. Instead of acknowledging that dance is a product of historically and culturally specific circumstances, such an analytical perspective ultimately tends to mystify dance. In this article I propose a different use of analytical tools in dance scholarship: I employ phenomenological reduction and epoche to focus on how dancing bodies appear in a stage context. To test the ability of these tools to explore dancing bodies from a third-person perspective, I analyze Danish choreographer Kitt Johnson's solo performance Drift (2011), focussing on her variable physical appearance. While phenomenology helps me to describe the multiple and radically different guises Johnson assumes in her piece, my analysis does not, ultimately, aim to distil a truer, more real being from her appearances, as is often the case in phenomenological analyses. Instead, I complement my analytical approach with the Deleuzian notion of becoming animal, suggesting that Johnson stages what, in Judith Butler's terms, could be called a critical contingency of bodily appearance.
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- Camilla, Damkjaer
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Research and Amateur Practitioner? A Researcher Embarks among Performance Gymnasts.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - Stockholm. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When we speak of practice-led research, we tend to mean research combined with professional artistic practice. At the same time, we increasingly try to emphasise and make visible less institutionalised artistic practices. But can we engage in activities like amateur practices in the name of research? This article is the tale of a researcher who ventures among performance gymnasts, and a discussion of the questions that arise from participation in non-scenic performance practices.
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- Dahlberg, Leif
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Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom : On Representation of Affect and Emotion in Legal Court Proceedings
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - Oxford : Hart. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 3:2, s. 175-205
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Emotional Tropes in the Courtroom: On Representation of Affect and Emotion in Legal Court Proceedings The modern legal courtroom is a peculiar place. Like the theatre it is a space open for many kinds of drama, verbal re-enactments of events and forced resolutions of human conflicts. There are often strong emotions at play in the courtroom: desire and love, jealousy and anger, but also sadness and remorse, fear and suffering. These emotions are controlled and tempered by the physical design of the courtroom, by legal procedure and the rule-bound rationality of law, but also by the serious attitude of the judge(s) and lay judges. Although in legal proceedings the parties are restrained from giving voice to emotions, in reality feelings and affects show through: in glances, timber of voice, flushes, crying, laughter and smell of sweat. The expressions of emotion and affect may be involuntary or staged, but in either case they are very much part of what is said and done in the courtroom. However, in the legal representation of court proceedings in the transcripts and the rulings these human emotions and affects become invisible, the emotions have been filtered away or have sunk to the bottom of legal space. In my essay I explore the peculiar emotive social space constructed and enacted in the courtroom, in particular the ambiguous attitude towards human emotions in law: on the one hand as disturbing and dangerous, and on the other as the true basis of human character and social conflict. The study is based on an ethnographic study of the lower level court in Stockholm (Stockholms tingsreitt). The study is part of a larger study on "Legal Spaces. The construction and representation of legal spaces in law, literature and political philosophy."
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- Enström, Ann
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Orienting Towards the Phenomenal Woman : Presenting Mia Skaringer in Her Stage Show Horny as Hell and Really Holy
- 2012
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - Göteborg : Föreningen Nordiska teaterforskare. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 24, s. 34-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Orienting Towards the Phenomenal Woman: Presenting Mia Skaringer in Her Stage Show Horny as Hell and Really Holy The article presents the Swedish comedian Mia Skaringer and analyzes her one-woman stage show Horny as Hell and Really Holy from 2010. The analysis combines feminist scholar Sara Ahmed's theory of emotion with Simone de Beauvoir's theory of the situated body, but is also influenced by one of the early theatre phenomenologists, Bert O. States, who combined phenomenology and semiotics in a 'binocular vision'. The article scrutinizes the way Skaringer narrates her personal story in the performance, employing such concepts as personal genealogy and intermedial bricolage. Above all, it addresses Skaringer's ironical treatment of the hardships of being and becoming a woman, which Simone de Beauvoir problematized back in 1949 when she declared that woman is the 'second sex'. Drawing on Ahmed's theories of stickiness and circulating objects of emotion, the article investigates how Skaringer uses her situated body in the performance.
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- Ernst, Manilla, et al.
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Antigone’s diary – Young Audiences as Co-creators of GPS-guided Radio Drama
- 2015
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 27:1, s. 32-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The play, Antigone’s Diary, is a re-written version of Sophocles’ classical play, developed with teenage schoolchildren in the riot-ridden suburb Husby, a 30-minute subway ride away from the centre of Stockholm. Rebecca Forsberg of RATS Theatre adapted the plot into an interactive radio performance with a mobile audience, walking through the suburb and responding via text messages to Antigone’s questions after each of the twelve scenes. Young audiences were of especial interest for this project. Therefore, school performances for teenagers are the focus of this survey. The responses of pupils were studied during and after performances by means of observations, qualitative interviews and quantitative analysis of the text messages that the participants sent in response to Antigone’s questions. The seriousness and enthusiasm of young audiences were one of the stunning outcomes of this survey and a number of quotations illustrate the immersive power of this production. Furthermore, this experiment also served as a text bed for the Department of Computer and System Science, to which Rats Theatre is closely tied. The multimedia performance, combining radio drama, mobile audiences in a local environment and the options of interactive participation, demonstrated the potential of participatory experiences to engage audiences in democratic processes that can be applied to issues of political interest and decision making in the public sphere.
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- Farcas, Liliana, et al.
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Precarization in the Name of Freedom : Material Conditions for Early Independent Performing Arts Groups in Gothenburg
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - 0904-6380. ; 34:1, s. 49-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is written within the frame of the interdisciplinary research project "Expansion and Diversity: Digitally Mapping and Exploring Independent Performance in Gothenburg 1965- 2000". It contributes to the critical ambition of producing an inclusive historiography of local independent performing arts groups by exploring the municipal distribution of cultural grants and the material conditions in the field. Based on interviews with nine well-known members of early independent performing arts groups in Gothenburg, complemented with archived funding applications and news articles, the article uses a cultural studies perspective to elaborate on how artistic freedom was negotiated in relation to dependence on public funding.
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- Gindt, Dirk, 1975-
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Anxious Nation and White Fashion : Suddenly Last Summer in the Swedish folkhem
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nordic Theatre Studies. - 0904-6380 .- 2002-3898. ; 21:1, s. 98-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates how Tennessee Williams’ play Suddenly Last Summer, as staged in Sweden in 1959, communicated sexual and racial anxieties. It aims to tease out the importance of fashion for the articulation of the closet and the expression of the simultaneous absence and presence of the queer subject in the play. Looking at the omnipresent use of whiteness of certain key costumes, the essay further proposes the concept of white Gothic fashion and argues that this assumed a whole new meaning when staged in a social and historical context that was not only characterized by institutionalized homophobia, but also promoted white hegemony and the control of women’s bodies. Placing particular emphasis on the socio-historical context of Sweden in the 1950s, the article demonstrates how performance studies and fashion theory can engage in a critical cultural analysis and help us understand national emotions, concerns and anxieties.
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