“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, a perfect case ...read more
This dissertation investigates the interplay between theatricality and religious representation in Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart'sCérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737). As a richly illustrated collection of ...read more
Dante Alighieri and his works, particularly the Divine Comedy, have played a key role in forming the European culture. Through different times and contexts, it appears clear that his works and ...read more
Contemporary dance in the Eastern European periphery is still at the very onset of the process of institutionalization and its particular working modes and (kin)aesthetics are largely understudied and until ...read more
Within the current field of contemporary documentary theatre, the form of the essay is rising to prominence. The nature and the purpose of the essay inspires a number of contemporary artists with ...read more
This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more
One of the foundational conventions of the operatic genre – that a character is represented by a single performer – is occasionally broken in operas composed today. To understand this ...read more
In the contemporary performing arts practise, a re-evaluation of sound as an aesthetic strategy is at stake. Performers, choreographers and directors consciously experiment with the potential of sound as an ...read more
This project addresses the theoretical and methodological questions of embodied interaction with multimedia installation art through body movement and the use of mediation technology. The ultimate goal is the definition ...read more
De educatieve trend ‘blended learning’ richt zich op het vermengen van digitale leermiddelen met contactonderwijs ter verbetering van het onderwijs. Met het ontwerpen van de innovatieve, digitale demonstrator “Singewing space”, ...read more