Books by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
Nomadic Theatre: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage, 2019
Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing perform... more Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of nomadic theatre. PREVIEW:
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While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries the mobile turn in society, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink introduces the concept of nomadic theatre as a vital tool for analyzing how movement and mobility affect and implicate the theatre, how this makes way for local operations and lived spaces, and how physical movements
are stepping stones for theorizing mobility at large. This book focuses on ambulatory performances and performative installations, asking how they stage movement and in turn mobilize the stage. By analyzing the work of leading European artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed, and Signa, Nomadic Theatre demonstrates that mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of spectatorship.
Nomadic Theatre instigates connections across disciplinary fields and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture, and game studies. It illustrates how theatre, as a material form of thought, creatively and critically engages with mobile existence both on the stage and in society.
Papers by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
Routledge eBooks, Jul 18, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Jul 18, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Jul 18, 2023
Nomadic Theatre, 2019
Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing perform... more Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of Nomadic Theatre. They are also theatre’s response to life in the 21st century, which is increasingly marked by the mobility of people, information, technologies and services. While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries this ‘mobile turn’ in society, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a vital tool for analyzing the manifold ways in which movement and mobility effect and implicate the theatre, how physical movements in the theatre are stepping stones for theorizing mobility at large, and how contemporary performance uses movement and mobility to make way for local operations and lived spaces. This book examines how ambulatory performances and performative installations stage movement and in turn mobilize the stage. Through a detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices by leading ...
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance, 2019
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 2019
This study concerns performances that attempt to (physically) mobilise the spectator and rethink ... more This study concerns performances that attempt to (physically) mobilise the spectator and rethink the conditions of the stage. Spectators are engaged in promenade performances or walking theatre, for instance, or they traverse the city by bike; they are driven around in wheelchairs or drift across labyrinthine performance installations. Alongside the mobility of the spectator, performers forsake the usual centre-stage position and turn into guides, tour-operators, or voices on an audio-tape. Contrary to the usual conflation with a theatre building, theatre spaces emerge in and as the process of performance, and as temporary situations. This study investigates how ambulatory performances and performative installations stage such movements and in turn mobilise the stage. This leads to enquiring into why some theatre practitioners prefer these mobile forms of theatre making, how these forms address and position the spectators in performance, how mobility is staged and effects the stage, and subsequently, how such movements best can be described. Both physical and theoretical movements are examined through a specific and newly invented concept: nomadic theatre. Nomadic theatre is employed as an analytical and mobile concept, and involves the encounter of the nomadic, mainly as it has been theorised by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the theatre. This study explores the potential of nomadic theatre, by putting the concept to work in relation to performances by Dries Verhoeven, Rimini Protokoll, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, next to Deleuze’s and Guattari’s nomadology and various disciplines in the humanities, such as media theory, urban theory, cartography, architecture, and game theory. Instead of primarily aligning the nomadic with physical movement or the absence of boundaries, the nomadic is understood as a particular mode or attitude that concerns the disturbance or undoing of territories. Deleuze and Guattari describe these disturbances in terms of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation. This study employs the method of ‘thinking through practices’ which treats performances as theoretical objects and performance analysis as the creation of affirmative assemblages. The concept of nomadic theatre firstly is put to use to investigate what kind of territories are in play, in ambulatory performance and performative installations, and which patterns of de- and reterritorialisation do emerge. Secondly, the concept is employed to describe how these processes are staged, that is, how acts of de- and reterritorialisation are organised or composed, how they position or address the spectator, and what emergent dramaturgies arise from these open-ended processes. Throughout, this study enquires into what the concept of nomadic theatre is able to do, with regard to theorising contemporary performance. This study demonstrates that not only theatre materialises differently as a consequence of the encounter with the nomadic; similarly the nomadic is ‘contaminated’ by the theatre, which manifests itself notably in the emphasis on embodied, situated and local operations.
Nordic Theatre Studies vol. 27: no. 1 Nordic Theatre Studies vol. 27: no. 1 ABSTRACT Mobile Perfo... more Nordic Theatre Studies vol. 27: no. 1 Nordic Theatre Studies vol. 27: no. 1 ABSTRACT Mobile Performance and Nomadic !eory: Staging Movement, !inking Mobility !is essay discusses the nomadic not so much in terms of mobile existence or physical displacement, but primarily in connection with the concept as a type of movement that disturbs the notion of territory, and that is intrinsically related to processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. !is particular reading of the nomadic is based on how the concept has been theorized and conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze, partly in close collaboration with Félix Guattari. !eir nomadology serves as a lens through which to study territories-in-motion, in connection to (urban) mobile performances and relationships between theory and practice. !e essay intends to demonstrate that the enquiry into dispersed and mobilized territories is a productive tool for analyzing movement and mobility in contemporary performance. Firstly, nomadis...
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance
Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances, 2019
‘Mirrors of Public Space’ is a conversation between Dutch director Dries Verhoeven and theatre sc... more ‘Mirrors of Public Space’ is a conversation between Dutch director Dries Verhoeven and theatre scholar Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink. Through intimate encounters or straightforwardly provocative events, Verhoeven invites passers-by to reflect on how we use public spaces, engaging audiences with diverse social and cultural backgrounds. During the interview, Groot Nibbelink and Verhoeven discuss how neoliberalism and digital culture profoundly impact public space, and how art might be able to critically mirror and question those developments. While discussing a number of recent works such as No Man’s Land, Ceci n’est pas, Wanna Play? (Love in Times of Grindr) and Phobiarama, they address the vital importance of diversity in public space, the increasing prudishness of public spaces, and the profound ways in which media changes the way we perceive one another. In many of these works, Verhoeven examines how media are used to stage reality and shape societal conditions, by re-using similar strategies in turn.
Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2012
Forum+, 2021
In this contribution we present a relational approach to dramaturgical analysis, in which we dist... more In this contribution we present a relational approach to dramaturgical analysis, in which we distinguish acts of composition, the address to the spectator, and the immanent context as key elements in any performance event. These components as such are not necessarily new, yet they are not always as equally integrated as we suggest. This is also a text about the methodology of dramaturgical analysis, as it offers a set of tools to do so, and actively reflects on the suggested approach.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
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While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries the mobile turn in society, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink introduces the concept of nomadic theatre as a vital tool for analyzing how movement and mobility affect and implicate the theatre, how this makes way for local operations and lived spaces, and how physical movements
are stepping stones for theorizing mobility at large. This book focuses on ambulatory performances and performative installations, asking how they stage movement and in turn mobilize the stage. By analyzing the work of leading European artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed, and Signa, Nomadic Theatre demonstrates that mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of spectatorship.
Nomadic Theatre instigates connections across disciplinary fields and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture, and game studies. It illustrates how theatre, as a material form of thought, creatively and critically engages with mobile existence both on the stage and in society.
Papers by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
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While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries the mobile turn in society, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink introduces the concept of nomadic theatre as a vital tool for analyzing how movement and mobility affect and implicate the theatre, how this makes way for local operations and lived spaces, and how physical movements
are stepping stones for theorizing mobility at large. This book focuses on ambulatory performances and performative installations, asking how they stage movement and in turn mobilize the stage. By analyzing the work of leading European artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed, and Signa, Nomadic Theatre demonstrates that mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of spectatorship.
Nomadic Theatre instigates connections across disciplinary fields and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture, and game studies. It illustrates how theatre, as a material form of thought, creatively and critically engages with mobile existence both on the stage and in society.