Nomadic Theatre: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Deterritorializing the Stage
	Primary Coordinates
	On the Move
	Theatre, Technology, Mobility
	A Note on Participation
	Theatre, Performance, Movement
	Deterritorialization
	Pause
	Deleuze’s Nomads
	Nomadic Theatre: A Concept, a Toolbox
	Theory as Tool: How to Do Things with Deleuze?
	Spatial Dramaturgy
	Points Are Relays on a Trajectory: Chapter Overview
	Playgrounding
2 Encounter: Meeting Multiplicity in Dries Verhoeven’s No Man’s Land
	Of Horses and Wasps
	The Rhythms of a Smooth Stage
	Mind the Gap
	Performance Installations
	Staging the Spectator
	Walking with Abderraghman
	Triads and Constellations
	A Problem of Referentiality
	This Is Not My Voice: A Problem of Referentiality, Part 2
	Fractured Reciprocity
	Building Performance
	Expanding Spectatorship
3 Displacement: The Situated Pathways of Rimini Protokoll
	Urban Moves
	The City as Stage
	Theatre Goes Global
	The Production of Space
	Performing Locality
	Navigating Representation
	Outsourced Performance
	Parallax
4 Cartographies: Trail Tracking and Map-Making as Staging Strategy
	You Are Here
	Cartography: Fifth Principle of the Rhizome
	The Theatre of Cartography
	Performing Cartography
	Charting the Virtual
	Navigational Spaces
	Personal Velocity
	Material Maps
	Thinking Subjectivity Through Space: Politics of Location
	Witnessed Presence
	The Cartography of Theatre
5 Diagrams: Staging Proximity in Ontroerend Goed’s The Smile Off Your Face
	A Nomad Does Not Necessarily Move
	A Wheelchair’s Thresholds
	Pleats of Proximity
	Event/Situation
	Into the Laboratory
	Thinking Through the Diagram
	The Grid of Capital
	Distributions of the Sensible
	A Spectator in the Dark
	The Dramaturgy of Proximity
	A Theatre of Folds
6 Architextures: The Rhizomatic Gameboards of Signa’s The Ruby Town Oracle
	Drifting/Dwelling
	Borderzones
	Narrative Architecture and Environmental Storytelling
	Architectural Performances
	Evocative Spaces
	Procedural Passageways
	Playing at the Limits
	The Entirety of the Map
	Tissue, Traces, Tracks
7 Distributed Performance: Epilogue
	Pop-up Stores
	Trajectories of the Stage
	Folds of Spectating
	Lived Space and Diffractive Reading
	Staging Connections
	Procedural Dramaturgy/When Attitude Becomes Form
	Thinking Through Practice
	Thresholds of the Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index