Choreographing Freedom: Mass Performance in the Festivals of the French Revolution

Jannarone, Kimberly

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00651

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Choreographing Freedom: Mass Performance in the Festivals of the French Revolution

Kimberly Jannarone

Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz, where she holds the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. In 2015/16, she was Visiting Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama and a Beinecke Fellow at Yale Repertory Theatre. She is the author of Artaud and His Doubles (2010; winner of the Honorable Mention for the Joe Callaway Prize for best book in drama) and editor of Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right (2016), both from University of Michigan Press. She directs experimental performance and has cotranslated, with Erik Butler, works by contemporary French playwrights. [email protected]

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Kimberly Jannarone

Kimberly Jannarone is Professor of Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz, where she holds the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. In 2015/16, she was Visiting Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama and a Beinecke Fellow at Yale Repertory Theatre. She is the author of Artaud and His Doubles (2010; winner of the Honorable Mention for the Joe Callaway Prize for best book in drama) and editor of Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right (2016), both from University of Michigan Press. She directs experimental performance and has cotranslated, with Erik Butler, works by contemporary French playwrights. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (2 (234)): 117–139.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00651

Abstract

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?

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