The increase in the number of performances based on material from ancient Greek tragedy on contemporary stages all over the world is very apparent. The relevance of these performances has ...read more
Motion capture-based renderings of dance performance constitute a complex, but highly interesting cultural phenomenon at a time when motion recognition and haptic technology increasingly affect our society at large. Applications ...read more
From its inception, near the close of the sixteenth century, to its modernist transformation in the course of the twentieth, opera thrived in scenic realms that were boundlessly illusionistic while ...read more
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