Search for dissertations about: "teatervetenskap"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word teatervetenskap.

2. 1. Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists : Men and Masculinities in Cultural Performances in Contemporary Sweden

   Author : Dirk Gindt; Tiina Rosenberg; David Savran; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural performances; theatrical event; theatricality; gender; men; masculinities; hegemonic masculinity; political demonstrations; prime minister Göran Persson; Sweden; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

   Abstract : Playing Activists and Dancing Anarchists is a Ph.D. dissertation that aims to analyse men and masculinities in political demonstrations and similar manifestations by conceptualising and analytically approaching such cultural performances as theatrical events. READ MORE

4. 2. Creating theatrical dreams : a Taoist approach to Molander's, Bergman's and Wilson's productions of Strindberg's A dream play

   Author : Hong Jai-Ung; Jaqueline Martin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore the Tao of theater through the study of the productions of Strindberg’s A Dream Play on stage. For the purpose of understanding these dynamic relationships Taoism is used and especially I Ching, the essence of eastern philosophies. READ MORE

5. 3. Performing Power : The Political Masks of King Gustav III of Sweden (1771-1792)

   Author : Maria Berlova; Willmar Sauter; Roland Lysell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; theatricality; theatrical playing; staging; pageant; performative communication; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : King Gustav III founded the Swedish National Theater and Opera, participated in the court theater as playwright, director and actor and he was rightly called the Theater King. The King’s passion for acting was perceived in the past as a psychological weakness, which won him the appellation of wimp (fjant). READ MORE

6. 4. Authenticity and its Contemporary Challenges : On Techniques of Staging Bodies

   Author : Franziska Bork-Petersen; Lena Hammergren; Gabriele Brandstetter; Ramsay Burt; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; techniques of the body; staging; self; authenticity; Menschenbilder; The Swan; Germany’s Next Topmodel; cosmetic surgery; Enlightenment; models of identity.; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : In this thesis I investigate what ‘authenticity’ means in a contemporary popular context and how it is used in the staging of bodies. Furthermore, I analyse works of dance and fashion from the past fifteen years with a focus on their strategies of challenging the notion of ‘bodily authenticity’. READ MORE

7. 5. The Aesthetics of Movement : Variations on Gilles Deleuze and Merce Cunningham

   Author : Camilla Damkjaer; Sven Åke Heed; Niels Overgaard Lehmann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interdisciplinary studies; Gilles Deleuze; Merce Cunningham; John Cage; Félix Guattari; Francis Bacon; dance; philosophy; movement; choreography; the body; heterogeneity; juxtaposition; representation; happening; chance.; Theatre; Teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the aesthetics of movement in Gilles Deleuze’s writings and in Merce Cunningham’s choreographies. But it is also a study of the movement that arises when the two meet in a series of variations, where also their respective working partners Félix Guattari and John Cage enter. READ MORE