Nomadic Theatre
Subtitle: staging movement and mobility in contemporary performance
By: Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
Contributors: Bleeker, Maaike, degree supervisor; Verhoeff, Nanna, degree supervisor; Universiteit Utrecht
Publisher: [Universiteit Utrecht]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Utrecht]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789461030429
Subjects: Experimental theater; Street theater; Participatory theater; Theater; Research
Other titles: Nomadisch Theater :
Description: This study concerns performances that attempt to (physically) mobilise the spectator and rethink the conditions of the stage. Spectators are engaged in promenade performances or walking theatre, for instance, or they traverse the city by bike; they are driven around in wheelchairs or drift across labyrinthine performance installations. Alongside the mobility of the spectator, performers forsake the usual centre-stage position and turn into guides, tour-operators, or voices on an audio-tape. Contrary to the usual conflation with a theatre building, theatre spaces emerge in and as the process of performance, and as temporary situations. This study investigates how ambulatory performances and performative installations stage such movements and in turn mobilise the stage. This leads to enquiring into why some theatre practitioners prefer these mobile forms of theatre making, how these forms address and position the spectators in performance, how mobility is staged and effects the stage, and subsequently, how such movements best can be described.
Notes: Promotor: Prof, dr. M.A. Bleeker.

Copromotor: Dr. N. Verhoeff.

Includes vita.

Ph. D. Universiteit Utrecht 2015

Text primarily in English, with summary in Dutch (pages 201-205).