Being enlisted as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO since 2010, Kalbeliya dance from Rajasthan is nowadays generally conceptualized as an ancient tradition from India. However, this same dance practice, also ...read more
This doctoral project puts into focus the changing nature, dramatic actuality and expanded, bio-ethical and visual meaning of suicidal phenomena as symptoms of global media culture in the first decade ...read more
Recent evolutions in the theater practice since the turn of the millennium show a clear renewed interest in the trope of visual illusion. This tendency is remarkable, because postdramatic theater ...read more
Episode II is the centre piece in a trilogy that deals with the consumption of images in relation to poverty, violence, social commitment and duplicity. Within the context of Episode ...read more
For the last decennia memory has become, more than ever, an important subject for academic research. From a historical, but also from a more general humane scientific viewpoint, we could ...read more
This practise-based research includes six fictive conversations on the dynamism and processes that are at the basis of the actor's dramaturgy. These conversations never really took place - or at ...read more
After having graduated at the UA with a thesis on the Brecht reception in Flanders, Guy Cools became involved with the new developments in dance in Flanders from the 1980s, ...read more
In 2012 Frederik Le Roy obtained his doctoral degree at Ghent University with a dissertation entitled Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis (Entangled Time, Crumpled History). Inspired by the philosophy of history of Walter ...read more
The practise-based-research of Chokri Ben Chikha focuses on the critical potential of stereotypes as theatre signs. The research reflects on the strategies and tactics of stereotypes in relation to three series ...read more