Looking Through Theatre - (Theater) by Kati Röttger (Paperback)

About the Book

A pivotal methodological approach to performance analysis connecting phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking.

Book Synopsis

How do the visible and the invisible interact in aesthetic experience? Kati Röttger connects phenomenology and intermediality to engage with orders of looking in theatrical events, and thus offers a multifaceted methodological approach to performance analysis. The study balances theory and methodology in combination with extensive case studies encompassing different histories, cultures and media from dance, to postdramatic theatre, film and theatre texts. The reader gains a deep insight into the relevance of theatrical performances as poison and cure in (hyper)industrial societies, because of theatre's capability to theorize critically the not least violent interrelationship of seeing and being seen.

About the Author

--- Kati Röttger, born in 1958, worked as a professor and chair of the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She studied philosophy, theatre studies and German literature at Freie Universät Berlin, and completed her doctoral studies on collective creation in the new Colombian theatre after having spent two years in Colombia for fieldwork. She has been engaged in the mediation of cultural and academic exchange between performance artists and academics of Latin America and Europe for more than ten years. Her research topics are international dramaturgy and technologies of spectacle. ---