1st Edition
Staging Monstrous Bodies Questioning Normative Orders
Introduction: Towards a monstrous order
Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel and Gerald Siegmund
Part One: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies
1. The Monstrous Does Not Exist: Epistemological and Queer-Feminist Reflections on Non-Binary Figures
Birgit Stammberger
2. Breaking the Mold: Building Bodies between Gender Conformity and Monstrosity
Marie-Charlotte Simons
3. Dress Eats Woman: Monstrous Costumes in Contemporary Performances
Jens Roselt
4. From Monster to Freak: A Latin American Genealogy of Corporeal Difference
Analola Santana
5. ROUNDTABLE PART ONE: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies – Theses and Motifs
Michael Mark Chemers
Part Two: De-Montage of the Monstrous
6. A Rhineland Werewolf and Its Theatrical Legacy
Michael Mark Chemers
7. LE SOUTENEUR NATUREL DES JUGEURS : Staging the Monstrosity of the Norm
Meriam Bousselmi
8. Medusa from Afar with the Sounding Body
Eva Döhne
9. Women Cut Open on Stage: Performing the De-Montage of Femininity as a Monstrous Practice
Ekaterina Trachsel
10. To Open the Shut Eyes of the Corpse: Performing Resurrections in Cadela Força – The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella by Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo
Livia Andrea Piazza
11. ROUNDTABLE PART TWO: De-Montage of the Monstrous – Theses and Motifs
Ekaterina Trachsel
Part Three: Monstrous Orders
12. “There are only monsters here.” On the theatrical uncovering of the no-longer-so-hidden in current political contexts
Susanne Foellmer
13. Appropriation as Expulsion: Claire Vivianne Sobottke’s Performance Velvet as a Feminist Practice of Becoming Unrecognizable
Martina Ruhsam
14. Score for: Where Are The Monsters?
Xavier Le Roy
15. Monstrous Imagination: Denis Diderot and the Body of the Actor
Gerald Siegmund
16. ROUNDTABLE PART THREE: Monstrous Orders –Theses and Motifs
Gerald Siegmund
CODA: A Collection of Questions and Thesis to be Continued…
Biography
Michael Mark Chemers is a Professor of Dramatic Literature and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several books on monsters in performance, freak shows, and dramaturgy.
Ekaterina Trachsel is a Theater Scholar and Theater-Maker currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary dramaturgies, institutional change, and theatrical stagings of monstrous bodies and orders.
Gerald Siegmund is a Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. His research focuses on forms of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance, aesthetics, theories of memory, and the intermediality of theatre in relation to the visual arts.
