Projects
Theater with the elderly: never too old to create a scene. Research into possible play and theater methods to play and create theater with the elderly in a residential care or day center. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Reflecting and resisting. Polish theatre and politics of memory since 2005 KU Leuven
This research argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by this struggle between those creating performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority. It interrogates the ways in which the artistic and political strategies that have been developed in the past two decades in the Polish theatre field can be theorized as queer artistic and political strategies. It will argue that this struggle ...
Cultures of Spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance. University of Antwerp
Shakespeare is dead! Textual dramaturgy in the theatre work of Paul Pourveur. KU Leuven
Research title
Text theatricality in the Dutch theatre repertoire of Paul Pourveur
Problem statement
The theatrical repertoire of Paul Pourveur turns out to be resistant to an evident staging. Our hypothesis is that this is due to the specific text theatricality that largely overpowers the dramatic theatricality of his work. In this study we want to find out which specific elements or strategies constitute this ...
Alliance Research Group: Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance Ghent University
In myth, the ancient muse Thalia is a worshipper of Dionysos and therefore closely related to theatrical festivities. Her name resembles the etymological origin of both 'theatre' and 'theory' (theoreia). The joint research group THALIA (UGent/VUB) aims at collective, intellectual exchange with regard to intermedial constellations of theatre, text and performance. Focusing on both contemporary performance art and history, the projects of our ...