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Performing (Ab)normal: Reframing Ageing, Dementia, and Temporality
No full textIn response to the broader discourse that scrutinises cultural constructions of dementia, this thesis investigates how performance theories and theatrical practices can disrupt, reshape, and transform the stigmatised cultural imaginary of persons living with dementia. By bridging Performance Studies, Age Studies, and Critical Disability Studies, this dissertation engages in activism and advocacy to rethink living with dementia as an alternative way of being and living.
More specifically, by focusing on alternative perception of time and reality experienced by people with dementia, this thesis engages in a sharp critique of discourses and representations that contrast normal versus abnormal experiences of consciousness. This study provides critiques of ableist assumptions in medical terms and cultural rhetoric framing the temporality of dementia, including notions of disorientation, asynchrony, and atemporality. Furthermore, by analysing theatrical representations of alternative temporal and reality experience of people living with dementia, this thesis demonstrates how theatre and performance can offer embodied
and affective understanding of the experience of a syncopated time and an inter(in)animation between different times, memories, multiple age-selves, and realities. It suggests that theatre and performance can challenge the dominant, normative, and ableist perspective imposed on people with dementia and promote a more inclusive approach.
Additionally, this research problematises the ideas of normative ageing which cast out older adults with illnesses and disabilities from desirable ageing futures. By analysing three case
studies of age-critical performance, this thesis demonstrates how theatre can disrupt normative cultural scripts of ageing and old age and expand and reshape our consciousness and imaginations of old age. Specifically, by showcasing the performative strength of older community performers in the analysed productions who convey intricate realities of ageing, this research considers the implications of dementia futurity in theatre and performance, advocating for a reimagining of theatre to include people with dementia as creators and performers. This dissertation concludes by introducing my own artwork that encapsulates my activist point of view regarding persons living with dementia. By examining the performance of dementia in both aesthetic and everyday contexts, this study highlights the unique contribution of Theatre and Performance Studies to the rethinking and reimagining of ageing and living with dementia
The Romans in Britain and the Effect of Male/Male Sexual Iconography at London's National Theatre
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Lumumba en Chine: Une réponse-appropriation politico-culturelle
Get PDFThe figure of Patrice Lumumba has been the focus of intense historical debate, but also of cultural and artistic practice around the world. This article examines the sudden rise of Lumumba commemoration and artistic response in communist China in the mid-1960s. Various artists and artist groups produced musical compositions, songs, opera, film, live theatre performance, musicals, dance, photo novels, poetry, and comics. The performances travelled across the country to the big metropoles and were supported by printed material in English and French, meant for international access. This cultural response died down at the end of 1966, which coincides with the onset of the Cultural Revolution and a shift in China’s international politics towards Africa to a more pragmatic approach in its relations with the various newly independent African countries.La figure de Patrice Lumumba a fait l’objet d’un débat historique intense, mais aussi de nombreuses créations culturelles et artistiques à travers le monde. Cet article examine l’essor soudain de la commémoration de Lumumba et de la réponse artistique dans la Chine communiste au milieu des années 1960. Divers artistes et groupes d’artistes ont produit des compositions musicales, des chansons, des opéras, des films, des spectacles de théâtre, des comédies musicales, des danses, des romans-photos, des poèmes et des bandes dessinées (BD). Les spectacles ont traversé le pays jusqu’aux grandes métropoles et ont été soutenus par des documents imprimés en anglais et en français destinés à un accès international. Cette réponse culturelle s’est arrêtée à la fin de l’année 1966, coïncidant avec le début de la « Révolution culturelle » et un changement dans la politique internationale de la Chine à l’égard de l’Afrique. Celle-ci visait une approche plus pragmatique de ses relations avec les divers pays africains récemment devenues indépendantes
Compte rendu long: Bruxelles: capitale du XIXème siècle ?
No full textDefraeye Piet, Mitterbauer Helga, Reyns-Chikuma Chris (dir.), Brussels 1900 Vienna. Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts and other Cultural Practices, Leiden/Boston, Brill/Rodopi, 2022, 453 p. Compte rendu pour Textyles réalisé par Chiroux Adrien (UCLouvain) & Deblander Maxime (UCLouvain) [email protected] / [email protected] Nous publions ici la version longue de ce compte rendu, à paraître dans le prochain numéro de la revue Textyles. À l’intersection d..
Poll, Melissa, Robert Lepage’s Scenographic Dramaturgy: The Aesthetic Signature at Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 199 pp.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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