Research
Since 2018 I study the works of Dutch actor Johannes Jelgerhuis Rienkzoon (1770-1836) as a source of stagecraft for performers, and am currently enrolled as a PhD candidate the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University.
My general field of research centres on historical performance practice, focusing on the theatrical legacy of Johannes Jelgerhuis Rienkszoon. The central research question is: how can Jelgerhuis’s private works add to a better understanding of his acting treatise Theoretische Lessen over de Gesticulatie en Mimiek (1827-1829), and how does this in turn contribute to historically informed performance practice as well as the discussion of European theatre history in the early 19th century?
Through this research I want to bring the historical acting techniques of Jelgerhuis, particularly those revealed in his unpublished works, to the attention of a wider public, with the aim of enriching current HIP practice and the academic corpus from both the theoretical and the practical standpoint by applying these sources to the discipline of performing.
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Marek Olbrzymek
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