Circus and the Avant-Gardes

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1

Arts for all Senses: Circus and the Avant-Gardes - Introduction

Anna-Sophie Juergens and Mirjam Hildbrand

PART 1

HISTORICAL CIRCUS, POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT AND AVANT-GARDES - INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONS

Chapter 2

A Treasure Trove for Avant-garde Artists? Metropolitan Circus Performances around 1900

Mirjam Hildbrand

Chapter 3

Circus, Dada, Vaudeville: Historical Avant-Garde - Between Popular and Experimental Theatre

Martina Gross

Chapter 4

'Attractive Novelties': Spectacular Innovation and the Making of a New Kind of Audience within Colonial Modernity

Martyn Jolly

PART 2

STAGING CIRCUS OUTSIDE THE RING: AVANT-GARDE EXPERIMENTS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 5

Typocircus and the Czech Avant-Gardes

Anne Hultsch

Chapter 6

The Present as a Trick or the Assault on the Spectator's Psyche: Circus and the Soviet Avant-Garde

Oksana Bulgakowa

PART 3

STAGES OF TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUS, AVANT-GARDES AND (NEW) MEDIA

Chapter 7

'Like a Three-ring Circus': The Avant-garde Appropriates the Circus in the Battle between Distraction and Attractions

Tom Gunning

Chapter 8

The Animated Circus and New Arts of Motion

Kristian Moen

PART 4

CIRCUS-AVANT-GARDE BODIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PHYSICALITIES

Chapter 9

'Glitter and Broken Bones': Professional Wrestling, Circus, Avant-Garde and the Radical Participatory Body

Claire Warden

Chapter 10

Glam Clowning: From Dada to Gaga - A Conversation with Le Pustra

Anna-Sophie Juergens and Le Pustra

Chapter 11

The Aesthetics of Queer Work: Loie Fuller's Exhausting Life as Performance Art in Stephanie Di Giusto's The Dancer (2016)

Wesley Lim

PART 5

CIRCUS AND AVANT-GARDES REIMAGINED SINCE THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 12

Political Clowns, Thrilling Strong Women and Animal-Free Excitement: Circus Reimagined through 1970s Avant-Garde Political Theatre

Jane Mullett and Peta Tait

Chapter 13

Avant-Garde Gestures and Contemporaneity in Today's Circus

Louis Patrick Leroux

Chapter 14

'Today for the last time'? On the Cultural Meanings of Circus and the Avant-Gardes - Some Final Provocations

Mirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Juergens and Aiden Essery

Notes on Contributors

Index