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Theatre of Potentiality

On A-Human Excess in Performances by Fabrice Mazliah, Felix Rothenhäusler, and Boris Nikitin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2023

Nikolaus Müller-Schöll
Translated by
Lydia White  and
Matt Cornish
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Abstract

How can we conceive potentiality as the inherent future in any present as well as in any past? Contemporary examples of a “theatre of potentiality” include works by dancer and choreographer Fabrice Mazliah; director Felix Rothenhäusler; and author, performer, director, and theoretician Boris Nikitin, who all share an interest in a-human excess: of things, words, bodies, and fictions.

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Special Issue on Contemporary German Theatre
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TDR , Volume 67 , Special Issue 2: Contemporary German Theatre , June 2023 , pp. 32 - 47
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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