The passionate oxymoron in Romeo and Juliet
In the comedies of Shakespeare, all characters infatuated with one another see themselves as perfect embodiments of ‘true love.’ Love is true to the extent that the two partners in it are interested in each other exclusively and indifferent to intermediaries, go-betweens and third parties in general. ‘True love’ is the Elizabethan equivalent of what we call a great passion, an authentic passion, l’amour-toujours. It insists on its independence from the entire world, from other people in gener...
What is the body’s capacity to communicate? How can spoken words be translated into choreography? McCormack offers a summary of the relationship between translation theory and choreographic practice. Focusing on how the term translation has been used in choreographic discourse, she explores how theories located in translation studies might be borrowed and re-appropriated in order to understand the relationship between movement and source text in verbatim dance-theatre. The chapter concludes with a case study of DV8 Physical Theatre’s verbatim dance-theatre performance work in order to ask if source text and choreographic translation can exist in a heteroglossic (Bakhtin 1981) relationship with each other on stage.