Projects
Restoring gestures: exploring Aby Warburg's method for theater studies. University of Antwerp
Theater with the elderly: never too old to create a scene. Research into possible play and theater methods to play and create theater with the elderly in a residential care or day center. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Creative Processes in the Performing Arts: An Integrative Model for Genetic Research in Theatre and Dance Studies. University of Antwerp
Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies Ghent University
This study focuses on the blurring of the linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of theoretical developments in both transcultural trauma psychology and theatre studies. This interdisciplinary study develops an empirical inquiry into post-narrative modes of a postdramatic aesthetic in applied theatre, aiming to further the understanding of trauma recovery shaped by coping strategies beyond narration.
Tracing Literary Influences in the Choreographic Experiments of Judson Poets' Theater and Judson Dance Theater. University of Antwerp
Early Modern theater and 'gouvernementalité' (Foucault): three pieces of Joost van den Vondel in a new light Ghent University
This research project analyzes aims of three dramatic texts of the Dutch seventeenth-century poet Joost van den Vondel. More specifically to Palamedes oft murdered silliness (1625), Gijsbrecht Aemstel (1637) and Lucifer (1654). These texts will be read in light of Michel Foucaults analysis of the early modern period (16th-17th centuries) as the cradle of 'governmentality'. The documents in question are more than just illustrative of what ...
Constructed life. Biography in the New Music Theater in the context of creation, innovation and communication KU Leuven
New Music Theater is often faced with the accusation of being stuck in traditional narrative structures. Still, in many new compositions non-linear narrative techniques of the music, libretto and staging forms appear that go hand in hand with a new attention to and forms of the narration. This phenomenon is to be investigated with regard to biographical narratives using the examples of Manos Tsangaris' 'Karl May' (2014), Mark-Anthony ...
Rap and Musical. Musical, Cultural and Social Perspectives on Rap and Hip-Hop in Music Theater KU Leuven
The goal of my doctoral thesis will be to explore the compatibility of rap and musical theater historically while also examining the pairing’s implications for the cultural and social frameworks of the US today. To reach this goal, I will not only draw from and contribute to research on the history of music theater since early opera but also create points of intersection with hip-hop studies and research on blackness in popular music. The ...
Spectacle culture. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theater, dance and music performance. KU Leuven
The Scientific Research Community (WOG) "Spectacle culture" wants to bring a trend break in this area. Apart from institutions and disciplines, scientists come together to compare their current research on cultural culture in terms of content and methodology, to sketch a state of affairs, but also to develop new research hypotheses or questions.