Cultural Representations of Gender Identities as a Challenge to Performance Cover Image

Културни репрезентации на родовите идентитети како предизвик на перформативноста
Cultural Representations of Gender Identities as a Challenge to Performance

Author(s): Elizabet Kolevska
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Gender Studies
Published by: Факултет за Драмски Уметности - Скопје

Summary/Abstract: Through the view of culture studies, as the most widespread form of modern materialistic approaches to art, the way of interpretation is changing, leaving the interest to the history of art and dance problems as a background, and focusing on the ways of presenting and representing the symptoms of culture, in synchronic and diachronic sense. From this aspect, today we can talk about the history of showing the body, space and time or gender, race, ethnicity, environmental age, class positions etc. through performativity, or to be more precise, through the area of dance. On the issue of borders and their research through the body of the performer, we can talk in general – how the contemporary system of living determinates the individual and humanity, what is the human being and what it may represent, which is linked to discipling the boundaries of understanding, care, control and the presence of the body, also with the place of the performer in his revealing and participation in at these processes. The actions of the performer where he uses his own body as material, vehicle, tool, we can intertwine various aspects of the relationship to the existential, personal, social, political, religious, psychotic and boundaries of sex, where the actions often contain different layers of performative interpretation of reality and its limits, where their consideration is thematic and formal in way of giving the reference to certain trends that in reality intertwine with many others.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 165-172
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Macedonian
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