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ENTANGLED PERFORMANCE HISTORIES Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of “entangled histories” as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. “Entangled histories” denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors sys- tematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of “entangled histories,” thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale. Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweav- ing Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full-time Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Torsten Jost is a Researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Tem- poral Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin. Holger Hartung is a theater and dance scholar from Berlin, who works at the Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin, where he oversees digital transformation. Omid Soltani is a Researcher at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” of Freie Universität Berlin. Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Entangled Performance Histories New Approaches to Theater Historiography Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung, and Omid Soltani Rechoreographing Learning Dance As a Way to Bridge the Mind-Body Divide in Education Sandra Cerny Minton Politics as Public Art The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements Martin Zebracki and Zane McNeill Lessons for Today from Shakespeare’s Classroom The Learning Benefits of Drama and Rhetoric in Schools Robin Lithgow Notelets of Filth An Emilia Companion Reader Laura Kressly, Aida Patient, and Kimberly A. Williams Transcultural Theater Günther Heeg For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge. com/Routledge-Advances-in-Theatre–Performance-Studies/book-series/ RATPS ENTANGLED PERFORMANCE HISTORIES New Approaches to Theater Historiography Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung, and Omid Soltani First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung and Omid Soltani individual chapters, the contributors The right of Erika Fischer-Lichte, Małgorzata Sugiera, Torsten Jost, Holger Hartung and Omid Soltani to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge advances in theatre & performance | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2022036613 (print) | LCCN 2022036614 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032405186 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032405131 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003353461 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Theater--Historiography. | Theater--Social aspects. | Globalization. Classification: LCC PN2115 .E688 2023 (print) | LCC PN2115 (ebook) | DDC 792.09--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022036613 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022036614 ISBN: 9781032405186 (hbk) ISBN: 9781032405131 (pbk) ISBN: 9781003353461 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003353461 Typeset in Bembo by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. CONTENTS List of Figures viii List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography 1 Erika Fischer-Lichte PART I Methodological Reflections 35 1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses 37 Magorzata Sugiera ł 2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab World 58 Khalid Amine PART II Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering 77 3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory 79 Catherine M. Cole vi Contents 4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost Performance 106 Stephen Barber PART III Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies 125 5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore 127 meLê yamomo 6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931) 145 Sruti Bala PART IV Emergence and Transformation of Genres 165 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 167 Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty- First-Century Avant-Garde 190 Catherine Diamond PART V National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 211 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 213 Marvin Carlson Contents vii 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater 234 Platon Mavromoustakos Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology 258 W. B. Worthen Index 278 FIGURES 0.1 Okuni with cross, dressed as a samurai. 11 0.2 From Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch (1523). 21 0.3 From Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch (1523). 22 0.4 From Christoph Weiditz’s Trachtenbuch (1523). 23 7.1 A dancing drummer wearing a Namahage costume, performing Namahage-Daiko in Akita Station (2010). 172 7.2 This image of a nō mask shows how the expression changes with the tilting of the head. 174 7.3 Angela Winkler, Benjamin Lillie in Karin Henkel’s Drei Schwestern (Three Sisters), Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2018. 183 CONTRIBUTORS Khalid Amine is a Senior Professor of Performance Studies, Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco. He has been a Research Fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin, and is now a member of its Advisory Board. He is the winner of the 2007 Helsinki Prize of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). He was Friedrich Hölderlin Guest Professor at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M., Germany (2017–18). Since 2007, he has been the Founding President of the International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) in Tangier, and the convener of its annual international conferences. He was a member of IFTR Ex-Com (2011– 18), Head of Jury at the Arab Theatre Festival (6th Edition, Sharjah 2014) and Advisor at the Saudi National Theatre (2020–21). Among his published books are Beyond Brecht (1996), Moroccan Theatre between East and West (2000), Fields of Silence in Moroccan Theatre (2004), Dramatic Art and the Myth of Origins (2007), Dancing on the Hyphen: Essays on Arab Theatre (2019). Amine is co-author, with Distinguished Professor Marvin Carlson, of The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb (2012); co-editor of Performing Transformations (2012), The Art of Dialogue: East-West (2014), Intermediality, Performance and the Public Sphere (2014), Memory and Theatre (2015), Across Borders and Thresholds: Performing in Zones of Contact and Friction (2020); and editor of Arab Journal of Performance Studies [AJPS] and contributing editor of New Theatre Quarterly [NTQ] (2021–23). Sruti Bala is an Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are at the intersections of performance and politics, which have taken shape in specific research projects on nonviolent