A Confluence of Times: Theater, Performance, and Re-enactment
Dobrochna Ratajczakowa
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-4869
Abstract
This article presents the discussion on performance, the archive, and the relations between them, based on Polish translations of Rebecca Schneider’s book Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (Routledge 2011; Polish edition: Pozostaje performans, Kraków 2020) and Diana Taylor’s Performance (Duke University Press 2016; Polish edition: Performans, Kraków 2018). The central theme of the article is a reflection on Schneider’s treatment of time and corporeality, which makes it possible to highlight the differences between the approaches to the ontology of performance proposed in the two books.
Keywords:
performance, archive, temporality, reenactmentReferences
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Dobrochna RatajczakowaAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-4869
Prof. emeritus, Theatre and drama studies specialist, author of many books, numerous editorial works and about 200 studies and articles. She researches theatre and drama of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries as well as studies theatre and cultural relations. In 2006 the Wrocław University Press published a two-volume selection of her works, W krysztale i w płomieniu. Studia i szkice o dramacie i teatrze (In Crystal and in Flame: Studies and Essays on Drama and Theatre). She is general editor of three book series: Kolekcja teatralna (Theatrical Collection; Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań, since 2006), Theatroteka. Źródła i materiały do historii teatru (Theatroteka: Sources and Materials for the History of Theatre, Gdańsk, Słowo/obraz terytoria, since 2004), and Nowoczesna Myśl Teatralna (Modern Theatre Thought; Warsaw, PWN, since 2002). She created theatre studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and was a longtime head of the Drama and Theatre Department, and later the Drama, Theatre and Performance Department there.
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