Solveig Gade

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Solveig Gade is a theatre and performance scholar and dramaturge working on political engagement and experimental dramaturgies in contemporary theatre and performance. In her current research she focuses on”war-critical” practices within documentary theatre and also visual art as well as on artistic and cultural representations of Denmark’s (re)new(ed) status as a belligerent nation. 

Gade holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen with the dissertation Rammen om værket i verden (published by politisk revy under the title Intervention & kunst in 2010). She is on the board of Performance Research as well as the Danish theatre journal Peripeti – tidsskrift for dramaturgiske studier. From 2008-14 she worked as a dramaturge at The Danish Royal Theatre, where she collaborated with directors and playwrights such as Michael Thalheimer, Christoph Marthaler, Elisa Kragerup (including the Reumert awarded performances The Sorows of Young Werther (2010), The good Person from Szechwan (2011), and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2014)), Christian Lollike (including the Reumert awarded war ballet Contact (2014) and the Prix Europa awarded script The Work of Wonders, 2005), and Nielsen (including the Reumert nominated script The Market (is nowhere)). Her work on interventionist practices in contemporary theatre, and her research on artistic representations and negotiations of the current war paradigm have been published in journals and anthologies including The Drama Review, The Journal of War & Culture Studies, Diffractions, Glänta, Peripeti, Periskop, Kritik, Performing Archives/Archives of Performance, Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders and Performative Realism.

Gade is currently working on a postdoc project on ”war-critical” practices within contemporary documentary theatre and visual art. The project is supported by The Danish Council for Independent Research. As a dramaturge she is, in collaboration with Elisa Kragerup, currently working on an adaptation of Boccacio's Decameron for the stage.

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