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Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation(Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

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This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history – some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, and the cultural relevance of circus arts. Circus and the Avant-Gardes elucidates how the realm of the circus as a model, or rather a blueprint for modernist experiment, innovation and (re)negotiation of bodies, has become fully integrated in our ways of perceiving avant-gardes today. The book does not only map the significance of circus/avant-garde phenomena for the past, but, through an exploration of their contemporary actualisations (in different media), also carves out their achievements, relevance, and impact, both cultural and aesthetic, on the present time.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Arts for all Senses: Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Introduction Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand PART 1 HISTORICAL CIRCUS, POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT AND AVANT-GARDES – INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONS Chapter 2 A Treasure Trove for Avant-garde Artists? Metropolitan Circus Performances around 1900 Mirjam Hildbrand Chapter 3 Circus, Dada, Vaudeville: Historical Avant-Garde – Between Popular and Experimental Theatre Martina Gross Chapter 4 ‘Attractive Novelties’: Spectacular Innovation and the Making of a New Kind of Audience within Colonial Modernity Martyn Jolly PART 2 STAGING CIRCUS OUTSIDE THE RING: AVANT-GARDE EXPERIMENTS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Chapter 5 Typocircus and the Czech Avant-Gardes Anne Hultsch Chapter 6 The Present as a Trick or the Assault on the Spectator’s Psyche: Circus and the Soviet Avant-Garde Oksana Bulgakowa PART 3 STAGES OF TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUS, AVANT-GARDES AND (NEW) MEDIA Chapter 7 ‘Like a Three-ring Circus’: The Avant-garde Appropriates the Circus in the Battle between Distraction and Attractions Tom Gunning Chapter 8 The Animated Circus and New Arts of Motion Kristian Moen PART 4 CIRCUS-AVANT-GARDE BODIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PHYSICALITIES Chapter 9 ‘Glitter and Broken Bones’: Professional Wrestling, Circus, Avant-Garde and the Radical Participatory Body Claire Warden Chapter 10 Glam Clowning: From Dada to Gaga – A Conversation with Le Pustra Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Le Pustra Chapter 11 The Aesthetics of Queer Work: Loïe Fuller’s Exhausting Life as Performance Art in Stéphanie Di Giusto’s The Dancer (2016) Wesley Lim PART 5 CIRCUS AND AVANT-GARDES REIMAGINED SINCE THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY Chapter 12 Political Clowns, Thrilling Strong Women and Animal-Free Excitement: Circus Reimagined through 1970s Avant-Garde Political Theatre Jane Mullett and Peta Tait Chapter 13 Avant-Garde Gestures and Contemporaneity in Today’s Circus Louis Patrick Leroux Chapter 14 ‘Today for the last time’? On the Cultural Meanings of Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Some Final Provocations Mirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Aiden Essery Notes on Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780367757281
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Series Title: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Sub Title: History, Imaginary, Innovation
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0367757281
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 575 gr


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