Projects
Tracing Literary Influences in the Choreographic Experiments of Judson Poets' Theater and Judson Dance Theater. University of Antwerp
Rap and Musical. Musical, Cultural and Social Perspectives on Rap and Hip-Hop in Music Theater KU Leuven
The goal of my doctoral thesis will be to explore the compatibility of rap and musical theater historically while also examining the pairing’s implications for the cultural and social frameworks of the US today. To reach this goal, I will not only draw from and contribute to research on the history of music theater since early opera but also create points of intersection with hip-hop studies and research on blackness in popular music. The ...
Spectacle culture. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theater, dance and music performance. KU Leuven
The Scientific Research Community (WOG) "Spectacle culture" wants to bring a trend break in this area. Apart from institutions and disciplines, scientists come together to compare their current research on cultural culture in terms of content and methodology, to sketch a state of affairs, but also to develop new research hypotheses or questions.
Restoring Gestures: Exploring Aby Warburgs Method for Theater Studies University of Antwerp
Restoring gestures: exploring Aby Warburg's method for theater studies. University of Antwerp
Inside the image. Immersion and narration at the intersection between theater and film. University of Antwerp
Constructed life. Biography in the New Music Theater in the context of creation, innovation and communication KU Leuven
New Music Theater is often faced with the accusation of being stuck in traditional narrative structures. Still, in many new compositions non-linear narrative techniques of the music, libretto and staging forms appear that go hand in hand with a new attention to and forms of the narration. This phenomenon is to be investigated with regard to biographical narratives using the examples of Manos Tsangaris' 'Karl May' (2014), Mark-Anthony ...
Early Modern theater and 'gouvernementalité' (Foucault): three pieces of Joost van den Vondel in a new light Ghent University
This research project analyzes aims of three dramatic texts of the Dutch seventeenth-century poet Joost van den Vondel. More specifically to Palamedes oft murdered silliness (1625), Gijsbrecht Aemstel (1637) and Lucifer (1654). These texts will be read in light of Michel Foucaults analysis of the early modern period (16th-17th centuries) as the cradle of 'governmentality'. The documents in question are more than just illustrative of what ...