cabaret cabaret The word ‘cabaret’ means something very different in Dutch, compared to English. Even though it has the same historical source, in the course of the 20th century Dutch cabaret has developed into a typically Dutch genre that doesn’t look like the English homonym at all. The most common kind of cabaret is one […]
absence
absence afwezigheid The state of being away from a place or a person; the non-existence or lack of something. The word absence is derived from the late Middle English, the Old French and the Latin word absentia. The absence of something can also make something present. It can evoke the imagination of the audience by […]
afwezigheid
afwezigheid absence De toestand niet aanwezig te zijn bij een plaats of person en het niet bestaan of gebrek van iets. Het word afwezigheid stamt via het laat middel Engels en het oud Frans af van het Latijnse woord absentia, van absens. De afwezigheid van iets kan iets anders aanwezig maken. Het kan tot de […]
beautiful
beautiful ωραίο Marina Abramovich – hottie Nice looking, form, morphe. Ancient greek: at the right time, suitable, mature, the one who comes on time, the moment – which is not necessarily alive but present – when transmitter and receiver are coordinated, their synchronicity that is right on time, the one who cannot withstand any more […]
biotope
biotope βιότοπος According to an etymological analysis, the Greek word biotope (βιότοπος) refers to a living (bios) place (tópos), which is to say a place that is livable and that is worth living in. In its everyday use it may address a healthy, harmonious and fertile place for specific living species, such as humans, animals […]
blend
blend mélanger To mingle; to unite intimately; as colors. To associate so that separate things mix, or the line of demarcation, cannot be distinguished. Hence: To confuse. Picture a retail unit at night. Three windows. Dim illumination from the shop floor that just highlights figures. Fresnels rigged above the display point at trainers facing […]
boundary
boundary grens That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself – Oxford English Dictionary What are boundaries and why do people always appear to have the need to set them? To define something always means exclusion on some level. “This is theatre,” for example, […]
cabaret
cabaret cabaret Cabaret betekent in het Engels iets wezenlijk anders dan in het Nederlands. Hoewel het wel dezelfde historische bron heeft, heeft het Nederlandse cabaret zich in de loop van de 20e eeuw ontwikkeld tot een typisch Nederlands genre dat absoluut niet lijkt op het cabaret waar de Engelse term naar verwijst. De meest […]
character
character cymeriad One of the main difficulties associated with many of the terms available for describing performance in Welsh is that, in most cases, they are nowhere near as flexible as their English equivalents. The most obvious example of this is the word ‘performance’ itself, which, even though it derives directly from the English, is […]
co-authoring (the act of)
co-authoring (the act of) συγγραφή 1) The act of writing / composing / constructing with someone or something. 2) The joint authorship of a performance work between the maker and performers and the spectator. 3) The coming together of thought of the work and the spectator in the act of meaning construction in the time and […]