An Analysis of Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring Performance Through Rene Girard's Concepts of Violence and Victim

Alev Beyazoğlu

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An Analysis of Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring Performance Through Rene Girard's Concepts of Violence and Victim

Yazarlar:

Alev Beyazoğlu

Yayıncı:

Ordu University

Ana Başlıklar:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Dergi:

Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.13 Issue 1, pp.491-504

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001285571

pISSN:

1309-9302

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 In this study, the concept of violence, which is frequently mentioned in Réné Girards Violence and Sacred book, will be searched for violence and the sacred in the light of Girards point of view in his performance called Rite of Spring directed by Pina Bausch, one of the pioneers of Dance Theater. The Dance Theater movement, which emerged in Germany in the 1970s and pioneered by Pina Bausch, has become a field of practice that combines the aesthetics of these two arts by combining dance and theater at a common point. Pina Bausch, in the Wuppertal Dance Theater, where she was the head, determined the originality of the improvisational movement brought by inner emotions, rather than the mathematics of the movement, as her method. It is known how Bausch staged his dance works, which he performed in a freedom that can be said to be methodless, in an aesthetic integrity and accompanied by strong emotions. The concept of violence, as Girard puts it, is a vital impulse that is always present in human beings; Since Bausch also places the inner impulses of human beings at the center of his works, he has frequently included this concept in some of his Dance Theater performances. Girard, proposes the functionality of the victim mechanism as a tool for the treatment of violence, the application of this mechanism in the Rite of Spring performance and the results of the process will also be a theme of the study. In the study, the analytical research method was used, and a reading was made on Girards theory by tracing the violence and victim phenomena in Bauschs dance performance. With the result to be reached, the threshold stages and shaping of two main concepts with theoretical depth on a bodily performance will be tried to be revealed.

 In this study, the concept of violence, which is frequently mentioned in Réné Girards Violence and Sacred book, will be searched for violence and the sacred in the light of Girards point of view in his performance called Rite of Spring directed by Pina Bausch, one of the pioneers of Dance Theater. The Dance Theater movement, which emerged in Germany in the 1970s and pioneered by Pina Bausch, has become a field of practice that combines the aesthetics of these two arts by combining dance and theater at a common point. Pina Bausch, in the Wuppertal Dance Theater, where she was the head, determined the originality of the improvisational movement brought by inner emotions, rather than the mathematics of the movement, as her method. It is known how Bausch staged his dance works, which he performed in a freedom that can be said to be methodless, in an aesthetic integrity and accompanied by strong emotions. The concept of violence, as Girard puts it, is a vital impulse that is always present in human beings; Since Bausch also places the inner impulses of human beings at the center of his works, he has frequently included this concept in some of his Dance Theater performances. Girard, proposes the functionality of the victim mechanism as a tool for the treatment of violence, the application of this mechanism in the Rite of Spring performance and the results of the process will also be a theme of the study. In the study, the analytical research method was used, and a reading was made on Girards theory by tracing the violence and victim phenomena in Bauschs dance performance. With the result to be reached, the threshold stages and shaping of two main concepts with theoretical depth on a bodily performance will be tried to be revealed.

 In this study, the concept of violence, which is frequently mentioned in Réné Girards Violence and Sacred book, will be searched for violence and the sacred in the light of Girards point of view in his performance called Rite of Spring directed by Pina Bausch, one of the pioneers of Dance Theater. The Dance Theater movement, which emerged in Germany in the 1970s and pioneered by Pina Bausch, has become a field of practice that combines the aesthetics of these two arts by combining dance and theater at a common point. Pina Bausch, in the Wuppertal Dance Theater, where she was the head, determined the originality of the improvisational movement brought by inner emotions, rather than the mathematics of the movement, as her method. It is known how Bausch staged his dance works, which he performed in a freedom that can be said to be methodless, in an aesthetic integrity and accompanied by strong emotions. The concept of violence, as Girard puts it, is a vital impulse that is always present in human beings; Since Bausch also places the inner impulses of human beings at the center of his works, he has frequently included this concept in some of his Dance Theater performances. Girard, proposes the functionality of the victim mechanism as a tool for the treatment of violence, the application of this mechanism in the Rite of Spring performance and the results of the process will also be a theme of the study. In the study, the analytical research method was used, and a reading was made on Girards theory by tracing the violence and victim phenomena in Bauschs dance performance. With the result to be reached, the threshold stages and shaping of two main concepts with theoretical depth on a bodily performance will be tried to be revealed.

 Bu çalışmada, Réné Girardın Şiddet ve Kutsal kitabında sıkça yer verdiği şiddet kavramını, Dans Tiyatrosu öncülerinden Pina Bauschun yönetmenliğini yaptığı Rite of Spring Bahar Ayini adlı performansında Girardın bakış açısı ışığında şiddetin ve kutsal olanın arayışına girilecektir. 1970li yıllarda Almanyada yaygınlık kazanan, Pina Bauschun öncülüğünü yaptığı Dans Tiyatrosu akımı, dans ile tiyatronun ortak bir noktada birleşip, bu iki sanatın estetiğini harmanlayan bir uygulama alanı olmuştur. Pina Bausch, başına geçtiği Wuppertal Dans Tiyatrosunda hareketin matematiğinden ziyade, içsel duyguların getirdiği doğaçlama hareketin özgünlüğünü kendisine yöntem olarak belirlemiştir. Bauschun yöntemsiz denebilecek özgürlükte gerçekleştirdiği dans çalışmalarını, nasıl estetik bir bütünlük halinde ve güçlü duygular eşliğinde sahnelediği bilinmektedir. Şiddet kavramı, Girardın tabiriyle insanın içinde hep var olan yaşamsal bir dürtü olduğundan; Bausch da çalışmalarının merkezine insanın içsel dürtülerini yerleştirdiği için, bazı Dans Tiyatrosu performanslarında bu kavrama sıkça yer vermiştir. Girard, şiddetin sağaltılması için bir araç olarak kurban mekanizmasının işlevselliğini önerir. Bu mekanizmanın Rite of Spring performansındaki uygulaması ve yaşanan sürecin sonuçları da çalışmanın bir izleği olacaktır. Çalışmada analizsel araştırma yöntemi kullanılmış olup, Bauschun dans performansının içinde yer alan şiddet ve kurban olgularının izi sürülerek Girardın kuramı üstüne bir okuma yapılmıştır. Ulaşılacak sonuçla birlikte bedensel bir performans üstünde, kuramsal derinliği olan iki ana kavramın eşik aşamaları ve şekillenişi ortaya konmaya çalışılacaktır.

Makale detayları

An Analysis of Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring Performance Through Rene Girard's Concepts of Violence and Victim

Yazarlar:

Alev Beyazoğlu

Yayıncı:

Ordu University

Ana Başlıklar:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Dergi:

Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.13 Issue 1, pp.491-504

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001285571

pISSN:

1309-9302

Réné Girard

Pina Bausch

Dance Theatre

Performance

Voilence

Réné Girard

Pina Bausch

Dans Tiyatrosu

Performans

Şiddet

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Alev Beyazoğlu

Yayıncı: Ordu University

Ana Başlıklar: Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Dergi: Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.13 Issue 1, pp.491-504

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2023

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001285571

pISSN: 1309-9302

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Alev Beyazoğlu

Yayıncı:

Ordu University

Ana Başlıklar:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Dergi:

Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.13 Issue 1, pp.491-504

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001285571

pISSN:

1309-9302