Le théâtre traversé: a traversed theater

Abstract

The author intends to account here for the multiplicity of forms and sites of contemporary theatrical creation through the notion of "théâtre traversé / traversed theater," based especially on three examples chosen for their diversity: BR-3, a site-specific work of the Teatro Vertigo; theatrical video performances of the Berlin Group, in particular Land's end; the literary, visual and technological creations of director Guy Cassiers. The understanding is that these pieces do not seek so much to produce representations with spectators but rather perspectives, referring to Viveiros de Castro's anthropological notion: Perceptual slips, conceptual disconnections, social disaffiliations, activating, for each spectator in his or her own way, the politics of "ignorant master" (Jacques Rancière), and thus promoting new modes of subjectivity.

English version by Leslie Damasceno.