Dionysus in Exile: : The Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos

On September 23 and 24, 2011, a group of scholars and practitioners from different fields and parts of the world assembled at the Greek Cultural Foundation in Berlin to discuss aspects of Terzopoulos'theatre related to its Dionysian qualities. Scholars of theatre studies, classical studies, psychoanalysis, psycho- and neurolinguistics met with writers, dramaturges, directors, and actors to share their views on the particularity of Terzopoulos'theatre. The symposium was held in his honor. With contributions from: Etel Adnan | Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis | Penelope Chatzidimitriou | Alexander Chepurov | Freddy Decreus | Matthias Dreyer | Erika Fischer-Lichte | Gonia Jarema | Kerem Karaboga | Frank M. Raddatz | Georgios Sampatakakis | Savvas Stroumpos | Dimitris Tsatsoulis | David Wiles Preface / Erika Fischer-Lichte The theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos: aesthetics and ideology / Georgios Sampatakakis Deep bodies light. Theodoros Terzopoulos' vertical choreographies / Matthias Dreyer Performing cultural trauma in Mauser: an exilic perspective on the Greek Civil War / Penelope Chatzidimitriou Bodies, back from exile / Freddy Decreus Terzopoulos' jenseits: the psychoanalytic foundation of Terzopoulos' theatre / Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis Bodies in revolt: the art of performer's psychophysical transgression in Terzopoulos' theatre / Savvas Stroumpos The character of the respiration: notes to Theodoros Terzopoulos / Frank M. Raddatz Tongue in presence - speech in exile / Dimitris Tsatsoulis Dionysus in revenge: the fractured voice in the theatre of Terzopoulos / Gonia Jarema Transcending the borders through tragedy: Terzopoulos in Turkey / Kerem Karaboǧa Theodoros Terzopoulos' Oedipus Rex in the context of Russian theatre / Alexander Chepurov On the Greekness of Terzopoulos / David Wiles