Why theatre?
By: edited by Kaatje de Geest, Carmen Hornbostel and Milo Rau ; translations, Gregory Ball [and eighteen others]
Series: Golden book -- V; Golden book (NTGent) -- 5.
Publisher: NTGent; Verbrecher Verlag
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Ghent]; Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9783957324580
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Theater; Theater and society; Theater and state; Aesthetics; Political aspects
Description: "[A]fter months of cultural lockdown, when live arts were in a state of emergency and the whole institution rethought their priorities, NTGent asked more than 100 of the most influential artists and intellectuals in the world the question: Why theatre? Why is this art form so unique, so beautiful, so indispensable? From classical theatre to performance art and dance, from activism to political theatre and the performativity of everyday life, authors of all continents and generations delivered short essays, memories, manifestos, letters. Moments of aesthetic epiphany meet strong emotion, critical insights into the problems of representation and populism compete with utopian texts about the theatre of the future: more than 100 voices about the state of performing arts in 2020."--Page 2.
Table of contents: title: Editorial; title: A constant journey of doubt and experimentation  -- Mohammad Al Attar; title: Things I would miss  -- Lola Arias; title: Theatre as a spiritual path  -- Hector Aristizábal; title: The lion king  -- Back to Back Theatre; title: The Think Tank Theatre  -- Yael Bartana; title: The same air  -- Vincent Baudriller; title: Saving the world  -- Jérôme Bel; title: Theatre humain  -- Chokri Ben Chikha (Action Zoo Humain); title: Why oh why?  -- Bread and Puppet Theatre; title: Art is not about producing, it's about implementing ; title: Tania Bruguera --; title: Suspension of disbelief  -- Luanda Casella; title: The art of those who dare  -- Nora Chipaumire; title: On vulgar acting  -- Benny Claessens; title: About wild capitalism & its patriarchal performance in our lives  -- Colectivo LASTESIS; title: Home  -- Kelly Copper (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma); title: A letter to dance  -- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker; title: I was theatre, but theatre was never me  -- Mihaela Drǎgan; title: "All the world's a stage," (really?)  -- Radha D'Souza; title: Re: Theatre does not entertain me  -- Tania El Khoury; title: Dinner is served  -- Nicoleta Esinencu; title: Not even the dead will be safe if the enemy wins  -- Douglas Estevam (MST); title: One day we will all be free  -- Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment); title: Sustaining the sky  -- Cibele Forjaz; title: On theatre, absence, disappearance and bodies  -- Oliver Frljić; title: You know you want it!  -- Gob Squad; title: It has eaten up all the others  -- Julien Gosselin; title: Together in the dark  -- Sébastien Hendrickx (Extinction Rebellion); title: For a life in action  -- Florentina Holzinger; title: Living in theatre  -- Hsin-Chien Huang; title: Need I say more?  -- Isabelle Huppert; title: Wet dreams  -- Manuela Infante; title: When we still do not know what theatre is  -- Christiane Jatahy; title: Whatever you do is theatre  -- Jojo & Joyee (House of Muchness); title: Stop pretending  -- John Jordan; title: Because  -- Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll); title: A is not. Any more than B.  -- Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co.); title: The infinite game of becoming  -- Susanne Kennedy; title: The less good idea  -- William Kentridge; title: Never becoming the concrete answer  -- Amir Reza Koohestani; title: Our opera is a body, is a vessel, is a village  -- Aino Laberenz; title: Born from the inside out  -- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; title: Embodiment  -- Ursina Lardi; title: I need company  -- Jan Lauwers (Needcompany); title: Let us be invaded  -- Marco Layera; title: Theatre belongs in a museum  -- James Leadbitter (The Vacuum Cleaner); title: Why sea stars?  -- Frie Leysen; title: About the ineffable: the mystical conception  -- Angélica Liddell; title: Laboratories of the future  -- Matthias Lilienthal; title: The suspension of freedom  -- Édouard Louis; title: Theatre as assembly  -- Florian Malzacher; title: Creating a climate of change  -- Katie Mitchell; title: Forever changes -- Sanja Mitrović; title: A sort of genesis  -- Ariane Mnouchkine; title: Technicians of Dionysus  -- Ermanna Montanari & Marco Martinelli (Teatro Delle Albe); title: Excursus  -- Maia Morgenstern; title: The role of theatre in the struggle against neoliberal hegemony  -- Chantal Mouffe; title: There will always be theatre  -- Yolanda Mpelé; title: Between here and here  -- Rabih Mroué; title: Exile and territory  -- Kornel Mundruzcó; title: Why as a responsibility to awe  -- Ogutu Muraya; title: Second exit after the soul  -- Nganji Mutiri; title: Theatre, because freedom  -- Jeton Neziraj; title: Hello darkness  -- Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande (MOTUS); title: Theatre of vulnerability  -- Boris Nikitin; title: Why water  -- Mamela Nyamza; title: Dear grandma,  -- Markus Öhrn; title: Fiction coming to life and intercontextualisation  -- Toshiki Okada; title: We sit as an audience in the now  -- Suzanne Osten; title: States of emergency  -- Thomas Ostermeier; title: Like breathing  -- Bouchra Ouizguen; title: The grass is greener on the stage  -- Lies Pauwels; title: For God's sake why?  -- Luk Perceval; title: Nurture the audacity  -- Alain Platel; title: This is a recording  -- René Pollesch; title: Thinking of the end of the world in costume by the sea  -- Philippe Quesne; title: Indispensable ritual  -- Mokhallad Rasem; title: Theatre is a place of truth  -- Milo Rau; title: Put on another show  -- Falk Richter; title: To stay in life  -- Tiago Rodrigues; title: The curtain should rise on the right side  -- Kathrin Röggla; title: Piece of evidence  -- Pia Maria Roll & Hanan Benammar; title: Believing before seeing  -- Didier Ruiz; title: Creating a new world  -- Amir Sabra (Stereo48); title: Why art, why now, why ever?  -- Farah Saleh; title: In closed spaces  -- Fabian Scheidler; title: Why, honey?  -- Dennis Seidel; title: Antibodies against lies  -- Kirill Serebrennikov; title: Slowly getting high  -- She She Pop; title: For as long as I can remember, I've been performing  -- Buhlebezwe Siwani; title: Lack of guarantee  -- Mårten Spångberg; title: Half world  -- Veit Sprenger (Showcase Beat Le Mot); title: Towards emancipatory performance  -- Lara & Jonas Staal; title: Ghost choirs  -- Botho Strauß; title: We got it all wrong  -- Tea Tupajić; title: Some call it universe, I call it theatre  -- Carole Umulinga Karemera; title: Confusionists  -- Igor Vamos (Yes Men); title: Art is a human right  -- Ivo van Hove; title: A world that needs ceaseless reconstruction  -- Gisèle Vienne; title: The condition of community  -- Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat); title: The fifth wall  -- Marc-Antoine Vumilia; title: Everything is open  -- Sasha Waltz; title: Why not  -- Miet Warlop; title: Tough love  -- Joanna Warsza; title: Incomprehensibility  -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul; title: Escalation!  -- Zentrum für politische Schönheit; title: The art of unmasking -- Dominique Ziegler.