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Steuernagel, Marcos.

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The surface of events: Politics and the body in contemporary Brazilian performance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The surface of events: Politics and the body in contemporary Brazilian performance./
Author:	Steuernagel, Marcos.
Description:	261 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-12A(E).
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3716608
ISBN:	9781321955033

The surface of events: Politics and the body in contemporary Brazilian performance.
Steuernagel, Marcos.

The surface of events: Politics and the body in contemporary Brazilian performance. - 261 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2015.

The Surface of Events: Politics and the body in contemporary Brazilian performance, demonstrates how, by investing in assemblages of bodies, the works of certain contemporary Brazilian theatre and dance groups disclose acts, statements, and incorporeal transformations that are at work in early-twenty-first century Brazilian politics. Each chapter opens with a political event, establishing a dialogue between performance, politics, and aesthetics, and advocating for a broader legitimization of ways of knowing politics in and through the body in performance. Thus the first chapter, "Teatro Oficina: Demassacring development and the anthropophagic body," opens with the June 2013 demonstrations in Brazil and argues that the biopotency of the multitude that manifested itself in the desire for multiplicity of the crowds that took to the streets then was already the motor behind Teatro Oficina's twenty-four-hour-long five-play-cycle adaptation of Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertoes, created from 2000 to 2007. The second chapter, "Oi Nois Aqui Traveiz: Delayed temporalities and the Brazilian transition," opens with the installation of the Brazilian National Truth Commission twenty-seven years after the end of the military regime, and argues that the group's staging of adaptations of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden in 1997--during the neoliberal government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso--and Widows in 2011--when the Commission was finally being signed into law-- disclose ways in which the relationships between disappearance, memory and resistance in both politics and performance reveal themselves in the vulnerable bodies that are left to account for the passing of time gone by. The third chapter, "Lia Rodrigues: Remapping violence and the pacification of Rio de Janeiro," opens with the occupation of the Complexo do Alemao favela in 2010 as part of the government "pacification" policy, and argues that the contemporary dance that Rodrigues has created since relocating to the Complexo da Mare favela in 2003 is able to address a biopolitical shift through the setting in motion of question machines that offer the surface of the dancing body as the site upon which to investigate the violence enacted upon others. The multidisciplinary dialogue that this dissertation promotes--actively drawing from fields as diverse as Brazilian political and critical theory, theatre and dance studies, philosophy, and performance studies--engages with the ways in which these groups have actively pursued a reconfiguration of the divide between aesthetics and politics, a reevaluation of the capacities of the body to be the surface of events, and a performatic investigation of ways in which political events can be known, produced and explored.

ISBN: 9781321955033Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

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