Kimberly Jannarone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Jannarone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Jannarone |
| SIGNATURE | JANNARONE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The long reach of the Roman Salute
This essay draws on and expands my research on mass performance into the so-called Roman Salute, a straight-armed gesture that came into being during the era of nationalization and is on the verge of re-merging en masse right now. Placing its origins in their historical context, which dramatically climaxed in Nazi Germany, I track its more contemporary uses. The essay begins with the salute’s videorecorded use after the 2016 announcement of Trump…
Presence, 2019–2022
Our understanding of “presence” has made an epochal shift in the past three years. The field of performance studies—never settled, always in flux—is shifting as well on this topic, as what we study expands digitally, contracts physically, embraces new paradigms, and unlooses others. While it is impossible to fix an exact time when attitudes about something as ineffable yet entirely real as presence changed permanently, this issue touches down on …
Mass Gymnastics
Mass Gymnastics: A Playlist Kimberly Jannarone (bio) My essay in Theatre Journal’s March 2019 issue analyzes gymnastic displays of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czechoslovaks and Germans through the lens of mass performance. The essay argues that gymnastic training and performance techniques parallel shifts in the socio-political conception of the people in the age of mass politics. I demonstrate how small groups of dispersed people seeking u…
Confederation and Control
This essay analyzes gymnastic displays of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czechs and Germans through the lens of mass performance. Modern gymnastics arose, first in Germany then across Europe, within the context of widespread social and political fragmentation in the nineteenth century. The essay argues that gymnastic training and performance techniques parallel shifts in the sociopolitical conception of the people in the age of mass politics. …
Choreographing Freedom
The French Revolution generated four large-scale festivals in Paris from 1790 to 1794. The festival project housed a foundational and ultimately insurmountable tension: liberty was to be established through a manipulation of people’s natural free will by means of their leaders’ methodical organization. How do you orchestrate fraternal attachment without imprisoning the participants in new rules? How do you, in short, choreograph freedom
The Balcony by Jean Genet (review)
Reviewed by: The Balcony by Jean Genet Kimberly Jannarone The Balcony. By Jean Genet. Directed by Michael Hunter and Jamie Lyons. Collected Works, Old Mint Building, San Francisco. 7 February 2015. The Old Mint building in San Francisco is, in the words of directors Michael Hunter and Jamie Lyons, a “dead building.” Erected in 1874 to print extra money during the Gold Rush, it was decommissioned as a mint in 1937, allegedly transformed into a CIA…
Great Lengths
September 01 2014 Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater. By JonathanKalb. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; 240 pp.; illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $28.95 paper, e-book available Kimberly Jannarone Kimberly Jannarone Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theater Arts and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she holds the Gary D. Licker Memoria…
A Sucker Punch of Horror
The Oyoun Theatre brought their performance of The Gaza Mono-logues from Gaza to Haifa for the RS/PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies conference, hosted by the University of Haifa. They were part of the larger Gaza Mono-Logues project, conceived by the Ashtar Theatre in Ramallah, which commissioned 33 first-person pieces written by children about their experiences during the three-week-long 2008 war in Gaza
Le Théâtre Du Peuple , and
Audience, Mass, Crowd
This essay interprets the Theatre of Cruelty's ideal spectator in light of early twentieth-century theatre audiences and the field of crowd theory. Artaud was writing at a moment when the role and identity of the audience was being radically redefined. The late nineteenth century transformed the audience from an active assembly to a refined, domesticated, and physically restrained group of people who obeyed the command to contemplate in stillness…
The Theatre before Its Double
It is ironic that the works of Antonin Artaud, who called for the rejuvenation of theatre as such, come to us today not on their own, but through an unusually dense filter: a peculiarly persistent critical/theoretical apparatus doubles his own writings and practice. Artaud's work has occupied a cultish space in both French and English criticism for several decades. Each major trend in Artaud scholarship has reinforced the image of Artaud as a bri…
Theatrical Confrontations
Audience, Mass, Crowd
This essay interprets the Theatre of Cruelty's ideal spectator in light of early twentieth-century theatre audiences and the field of crowd theory. Artaud was writing at a moment when the role and identity of the audience was being radically redefined. The late nineteenth century transformed the audience from an active assembly to a refined, domesticated, and physically restrained group of people who obeyed the command to contemplate in stillness…
The Theatre before Its Double
It is ironic that the works of Antonin Artaud, who called for the rejuvenation of theatre as such, come to us today not on their own, but through an unusually dense filter: a peculiarly persistent critical/theoretical apparatus doubles his own writings and practice. Artaud's work has occupied a cultish space in both French and English criticism for several decades. Each major trend in Artaud scholarship has reinforced the image of Artaud as a bri…
Theatrical Confrontations
Audience, Mass, Crowd
This essay interprets the Theatre of Cruelty's ideal spectator in light of early twentieth-century theatre audiences and the field of crowd theory. Artaud was writing at a moment when the role and identity of the audience was being radically redefined. The late nineteenth century transformed the audience from an active assembly to a refined, domesticated, and physically restrained group of people who obeyed the command to contemplate in stillness…
A Sucker Punch of Horror
The Oyoun Theatre brought their performance of The Gaza Mono-logues from Gaza to Haifa for the RS/PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies conference, hosted by the University of Haifa. They were part of the larger Gaza Mono-Logues project, conceived by the Ashtar Theatre in Ramallah, which commissioned 33 first-person pieces written by children about their experiences during the three-week-long 2008 war in Gaza
Le Théâtre Du Peuple , and
Great Lengths
September 01 2014 Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater. By JonathanKalb. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; 240 pp.; illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $28.95 paper, e-book available Kimberly Jannarone Kimberly Jannarone Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theater Arts and Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she holds the Gary D. Licker Memoria…
The Balcony by Jean Genet (review)
Reviewed by: The Balcony by Jean Genet Kimberly Jannarone The Balcony. By Jean Genet. Directed by Michael Hunter and Jamie Lyons. Collected Works, Old Mint Building, San Francisco. 7 February 2015. The Old Mint building in San Francisco is, in the words of directors Michael Hunter and Jamie Lyons, a “dead building.” Erected in 1874 to print extra money during the Gold Rush, it was decommissioned as a mint in 1937, allegedly transformed into a CIA…
Choreographing Freedom
The French Revolution generated four large-scale festivals in Paris from 1790 to 1794. The festival project housed a foundational and ultimately insurmountable tension: liberty was to be established through a manipulation of people’s natural free will by means of their leaders’ methodical organization. How do you orchestrate fraternal attachment without imprisoning the participants in new rules? How do you, in short, choreograph freedom
Mass Gymnastics
Mass Gymnastics: A Playlist Kimberly Jannarone (bio) My essay in Theatre Journal’s March 2019 issue analyzes gymnastic displays of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czechoslovaks and Germans through the lens of mass performance. The essay argues that gymnastic training and performance techniques parallel shifts in the socio-political conception of the people in the age of mass politics. I demonstrate how small groups of dispersed people seeking u…
Confederation and Control
This essay analyzes gymnastic displays of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czechs and Germans through the lens of mass performance. Modern gymnastics arose, first in Germany then across Europe, within the context of widespread social and political fragmentation in the nineteenth century. The essay argues that gymnastic training and performance techniques parallel shifts in the sociopolitical conception of the people in the age of mass politics. …
Presence, 2019–2022
Our understanding of “presence” has made an epochal shift in the past three years. The field of performance studies—never settled, always in flux—is shifting as well on this topic, as what we study expands digitally, contracts physically, embraces new paradigms, and unlooses others. While it is impossible to fix an exact time when attitudes about something as ineffable yet entirely real as presence changed permanently, this issue touches down on …
The long reach of the Roman Salute
This essay draws on and expands my research on mass performance into the so-called Roman Salute, a straight-armed gesture that came into being during the era of nationalization and is on the verge of re-merging en masse right now. Placing its origins in their historical context, which dramatically climaxed in Nazi Germany, I track its more contemporary uses. The essay begins with the salute’s videorecorded use after the 2016 announcement of Trump…
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