Energy and Forces as Aesthetic Interventions

Über den Autor

Sabine Huschka is head of the research project Transgressionen funded by the German Research Fund (DFG) at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) and Berlin University of the Arts. She submitted her habilitation on Wissenskultur Tanz: Der choreographierte Körper im Theater in 2011 at the University of Leipzig and received her Ph.D. at Humboldt University, Berlin for her dissertation Merce Cunningham und der Moderne Tanz (summa cum laude). Her research focusses on cultural-theoretical approaches to stage dance, dance and knowledge, historiography of stage dance, re-enactment, as well as aesthetic theories of modern, postmodern and contemporary dance with special emphasis on aisthesiological and performance-analytical approaches.Barbara Gronau is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts and spokesperson of the research training group Knowledge in the Arts, funded by the German Research Fund (DFG). She received her Ph.D. for her dissertation Theaterinstallationen. Performative Räume bei Beuys, Boltanski und Kabakov (2010), for which she obtained the »Joseph Beuys Award for Research«. Since her interest is also in theatre practice, she worked as a dramaturg and curator for several theatre productions and festivals.