Bodycheck : : relocating the body in contemporary performing art / / edited by Luk Van den Dries.

• Superior document: Critical studies ; Volume 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Dries, Luk van den,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) :; illustrations.

In ice hockey, the term body check refers to a specific move to gain control. It is a blow from body to body, a dynamic clash of physical strength, which will determine the course of the game. In this book, too, the body is checked and there is physical confrontation. Not in the hockey ring, but on stage. This book deals with the body in contemporary (performing) arts. The focus is on exploring theoretical avenues and developing new concepts to grasp corporeal images more accurately. This theoretical research is confronted with the voice of artists whose work explicitly deals with the body. In-depth interviews with a.o. Meg Stuart, Wim Vandekeybus, Romeo Castellucci, Jerôme Bel reveal a very broad range of views on the (re)presentation of the body in today’s performing arts. The combination of these two voices –the theoretician’s and the artist’s -shows that research by artists and cultural scientists is perfectly complementary.

Table of Contents

Bodycheck: Introduction / Luk Van den Dries -- Masochism, or The Cruel Mother in Maria Beatty’s Pornography / Katrien Jacobs -- Theatricality – Invisibility – Discipline / Steven De Belder -- The Sublime Body / Luk Van den Dries -- Allegories of the Fall: Corporeality and the Technological Condition in Theatre / Kurt Vanhoutte -- Disorders That Consciousness Can Produce: Bodies Seeing Bodies on Stage / Maaike Bleeker -- The Hide of Marsyas: Some Notes on the Screen of Painting / Frank Reijnders -- Hard Graft / Peter Mason -- What is That, Which is the Body? / Dietmar Kamper -- Images Preserved in Liquid: A Foreword / Myriam Van Imschoot -- Staged Bodies / Eric Raeves -- Biography / Romeo Castellucci -- Biography / Marc Vanrunxt -- Biography / Eric Raeves -- Biography / Thierry Smits -- Biography / Jérôme Bel -- Biography / Wim Vandekeybus -- Biography / Meg Stuart -- Index / Maaike Bleeker , Steven De Belder , Kaat Debo , Luk Van den Dries and Kurt Vanhoutte.