Some first thoughts - in form of a manifesto

A point of departure for my book project were a number of thought I first formulated for a keynote to the Bundesverband Darstellendes Spiel e.V. at their annual conference in 2008. This was first published as
„Musikalität als Paradigma für die Theaterarbeit. Zehn Thesen”, Bundesverband Theater in Schulen e.V (Hg.) Fokus Schultheater 08. Theater. Musik. Hamburg: Edition Körber Stiftung, 2009, pp. 8-16.


I have later translated and revised this paper and it has just been published here: 

"Musicality as a paradigm for the theatre – a kind of manifesto“, Studies in Musical Theatre, Vol 4/3: 2010, pp. 293-306.

You can see http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=10571/


Any comments are warmly welcome!

The slow process of ideas taking shape

In the past weeks I have been reading very eclectically on theatre theories, individual practitioners and theories of music and music aesthetic. It is that phase where everything is possible but also far too complex and slightly daunting.
Yesterday, I had a very interesting conversation with Sven Bjerstedt from Sweden, who works as a  jazz musician and theatre facilitator and is also very interested in the metaphor of "musicality" in theatre. For those who read Swedish (sadly, I don't) his MA thesis on the topic is online: http://www.iac.lu.se/projects.aspx#150
We discussed how notions of what practitioners refer to when they say "music" varies - culturally, but also historically. I am sure this will be a key challenge of the book: to explore what notions of music underlie the respective metaphors (or actual "techniques") employed by (or promoted by) theatre practitioners across different times.