Description
The concept of repertoire offers an ambiguous hinge between claims concerning the enduring and the ephemeral – identified with theatre as opposed to performance (rehearsal and repetition, distinct from the improvisational and the singular), and yet also conceived of (with Diana Taylor’s famous categories) in distinction from the archive (as performed rather than documented). From esoteric performer trainings to popular audience fandoms, repertoire manifests the diverse practices of cultural memory – not least, in their contestation (as with the idea of a canon). The articles gathered in the issue – some with a focus on specific acts, others ranging more broadly through theoretical issues – will reflect on performances (both experimental and traditional) from across the world. This diversity of approach, offering its own repertoire of possibilities, attests to the sense that the meaning of a term is, indeed, in its use(s) – including now, it is hoped, among readers of this volume.
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Introduction
MISCHA TWITCHIN
5 The Embodied Archive and the Metaphor of Compost:
Persistence through change
SASI DEL BONO
13 ‘Signature Act’: The queer performing body as living archive
MAUDE DAVEY
21 Collecting a Legacy: Inside the twenty-eight-year repertoire
of Third Angel
ROB FELLMAN
29 Here One Minute, Gone the Next: Ridiculusmus’s attempts
to create a repertoire [Artist pages]
JONATHAN HAYNES AND DAVID WOODS
33 The Reactionary Repertoire: From embodied gestures of the
past to performative politics of the present
PABLO SANTACANA LÓPEZ
42 Liquid Manifestations of Repertory in the Field of
Contemporary Dance-making
ARIADNE MIKOU
51 Gender Performance on the Stage of Chinese Opera:
A historical analysis of the cross-dressing repertoire
SHUTAN (RITA) REN
59 A Repertoire Practice to Put Archives in Dialogue:
SEPTEMBER 11 in Leicester and Northampton
FRANCESCO SANI
66 Lessons of Decal (Language as Repertoire) [Artist pages]
SOPHIE SEITA
70 The Color of Water: Transforming the silenced archive to
repertoire in the Mizrahi theatre in Israel
NAPHTALY SHEM-TOV
78 LASTESIS: Embodied protest between the repertoire and the
vital archive
MICAELA G. SIGNORELLI
86 Shame, Shame, Shame. In-yer-face repertoire and structures
of feeling in Polish theatre
DOROTA SOSNOWSKA
95 Repertoire and Pedagogical Transmission of Asian
‘Traditional Forms’ at the Intercultural Theatre Institute of
Singapore
GIORGIA CIAMPI TSOLAKI
104 On ‘a certain convocation of politic worms’ (Hamlet)
MISCHA TWITCHIN
112 Repertoire Research: Dramaturgy from Lessing to Haraway
LENA VERCAUTEREN
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REVIEWS
120 Differential Movement: Reading Black bodies sideways and
in density
DOTUN AYOBADE
121 To Do, To Act, To Reform
JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY
122 Mapping Polivocality in East Asian Theatrical Realism
HANSOL OH
123 Page, Stage and Expanding Iberian Performance
JULIO VÉLEZ SAINZ
124 Curating Queer Mehfils: An intimate read of homes and
elsewheres
AZIZ SOHAIL
125 Practice, Process, Ethos: Verbatim community-engaged
theatre in Australia
CAROLINE WAKE
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126 Notes on Contributors
