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Dr Sabine Sörgel

Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance
MA Theatre Studies, PhD Theatre Studies/IPP Performance and Media Studies Photograph of Dr Sabine Sörgel.

Contact

Email: bas@aber.ac.uk
Office: FG 3, Foundry, Parry-Williams Building
Phone: 01970 628477
Fax: 01970 622831

Teaching Areas

  • TP10220: Studying Theatre 2
  • DR21020: The Body in 20th Century Theatre and Dance Performance
  • DR 20820 Postcolonial Theatre and Performance
  • DR31230: 17th Century Neo-Classical French and English Restoration Theatre
  • PFM0330: Postdramatic Theatre
  • DRM0530: Comparative Dramaturgies

Research

Research

Postcolonial theatre and performance; contemporary dance and dance theatre; theatre and ritual; identity and performance.

Completed Research Projects:

2007-2008: Alterity and Performative Knowledge: Contemporary Re-Definitions of Modernity and Modernism in the Atlantic Triangle. Details: Dance workshop “Jamaican Traditional Folk Forms & Yoruba Bata Drumming and Dance” in co-operation with invited guest lecturers Christopher Walker (National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica) and Jeleel Ojuade (Performing Arts Dept. Illorin Univ. Nigeria) ”, IPP Summer School “Traditions of Modernity” July 2007 Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.

2002-2005: Dancing Postcolonialism The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (Transcript, 2007). Details: Visiting researcher at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica and the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, School of Dance. Participant in the Summer Dance Workshop “Caribbean Dance in the 21st Century – Caribbean Folk Based Contemporary Forms” 2003. Field research on Caribbean modern and folk dance traditions with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. Funding Body: German National Merit Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship and International PhD Programme (IPP) Performance and Media Studies funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and German Research Foundation (DFG).

Biography

Dr. Sabine Sörgel received her PhD in Performance and Media Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany where she taught theory and history of theatre and dance until 2008. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, cross-cultural corporeality and identity construction in contemporary theatre and dance performance. In 2003 she was visiting scholar at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica and conducted field research with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica in Kingston. Her recent book Dancing Postcolonialism – The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica was published by Transcript Verlag in 2007. Since Feb. 2008 she has been appointed Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance, Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Staff Publications

Monographs

Dancing Postcolonialism. The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007).

Edited Volumes

Theater seit den 1990er Jahren, eds. Friedemann Kreuder and Sabine Sörgel (Tübingen: Francke, 2008).

Articles

  • “1968: Contextualizing Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre.” In: Politik mit dem Kӧrper. Performative Praktiken in Theater, Medien und Alltagskultur seit 1968, edited by Friedemann Kreuder and Michael Bachmann (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009). 223-233.
  • “Zur Medialität des Performativen im zeitgenössischen Tanz/Theater.” In: Henri Schoenmakers, Stefan Bläske, Kay Kirchmann et al., Theater und Medien (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008) 319-329.
  • “Von der Manie zur Melancholie. Tanzhistoriographie im kulturhistorischen Vergleich.“ Forum Modernes Theater 23.1. (2008) 19-28.
  • “Realismus-Variationen: Themen und Tendenzen des Gegenwartstheaters zwischen Glamour, neuer Bürgerlichkeit und Dokumentarismus.” In: Friedemann Kreuder and Sabine Sörgel, eds., Theater seit den 1990er Jahren (Tübingen: Francke, 2008) 111-124.
  • “Tanz-Genealogien: Tanz(Ge)schichte(n) von Kurt Jooss zu Sasha Waltz.” In: Friedemann Kreuder/ Stefan Hulfeld/ Andreas Kotte, eds., Theaterhistoriographie. Kontinuitäten und Brüche in Diskurs und Praxis (Tübingen: Francke, 2007) 311-328.
  • “Staging the Caribbean  – Derek Walcott’s Theatre in Performance.” In: Klaus Stierstorfer, ed., Reading the Caribbean: Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007) 189-210.
  • “Tanz(Ge)schichte(n) der Moderne im Tanztheater der Gegenwart am Beispiel von Kurt Jooss, Pina Bausch, Sasha Waltz und Wanda Golonka.“ Forum Modernes Theater 21.1 (2006) 61-78.
  • “Recovering Folk as Art: The Social Repositioning of Grassroots Culture in Jamaican Dance Theatre.” In: Huggan, Graham/ Klasen, Stephan, eds., Perspectives on Endangerment (Hildesheim: Olms Verlag, 2005) 179-185.
  • “Spirituality and Epic Memory in Christopher Walker’s Fragile, NDTC 41st Dance Season 2003.” In: Christopher Balme and Meike Wagner, eds., Beyond Aesthetics: Performance, Media, and Cultural Studies (Trier: WVT, 2004) 93-99.
  • “Dancing Cultural Identity – Das Beispiel der NDTC (1962-2003).” In: Krassimira Kruschkova and Nele Lipp, eds., Tanz anderswo: intra- und interkulturell (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2004) 177-187.

Selected International Conference Papers

  • “Mediating the Body Politic. Contemporary Dance and Transnationalism,” Orbis Pictus – Theatrum Mundi, 9th International Congress of the German Society for Theatre Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct 2008.
  • “Deconstructing Diaspora. Contemporary Dance and Cosmopolitanism,” Conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance, University of California, Berkeley, Sept 2008.
  • “Dismembering the Body Politic: Contemporary Dance and Civil Disobedience,” Re-Constructing Asian-ess(es) in the Global Age, IFTR Annual Conference, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 2008.
  • “Conjuring the Spirit in Contemporary Theatre: An Interrogation of African Aesthetics,” Theatre in Africa – Africa in the Theatre, 50th Annual Conference International Federation for Theatre Research, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2007.
  • “Embodying Kinaesthetics: Practice/Theory of Caribbean Dance Theatre”, Re-Thinking Practice and Theory, International Symposium on Dance Research, co-sponsored by CORD and SDHS, Centre National de la Danse, Paris, June 2007.
  • “The Global Politics of Performance Nomadism: Helena Waldmann’s Letters from Tentland and Mohammad Aghebati’s Kiss You and Tears at Iran’s Fadjr Festival and Abroad”, International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT), University of Helsinki, Finland, Aug 2006.