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Personal profile
Research interests
Szabolcs is a scholar, curator and project lead of strategic arts & cultural initiatives and partnerships, working across the creative sector and higher education.
His research interests span across theatre and migration, transnational and cross-cultural theatre and performance, dramaturgy, theatre translation and adaptation, and socially engaged theatre.
He is currently leading an international research project on theatre and migration in Europe. He is board director of Migrant Dramaturgies Network. Szabolcs holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and he worked as an academic and curator both in the UK and continental Europe. He is guest-editor of Performing Ethos’ special journal issue on ‘Theatre and Migration between Ethics and Aesthetics’ (2019) and his co-edited collection, Redefining Theatre Communities. International Perspectives on Community-Conscious Theatre-Making was published by Intellect (2019).
Szabolcs is founding director of New Tides Platform, and an active member of the Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy Working Group within the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). He is also member of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), the International Network of Italian Theatre (INIT) and the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP).
Keywords
- Theatre and migration
- Human rights
- Activism
- Cross-cultural theatre
- Transnational performance
- socially engaged theatre
- Theatre translation
- Adaptation
- Dramaturgy
- European theatre
- Migration and Art
- Cultural studies
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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The Migrant Institute: Performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries
Musca, S., Krebs, K., Anderson, B. & Haines, D.
5/05/20 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
Research output
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"White People All Over": Refugee Performance, Fictional Aesthetics and Dramaturgies of Alterity-Empathy
Musca, S. & Corrêa P., G., 2 Sept 2020, In: Contemporary Theatre Review. 30, 3, p. 375-389Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe
Musca, S., 15 Dec 2022, Refugee Genres: Essays on the Culture of Flight and Refuge. Classon-Frangos, M. & Ghose, S. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 111-131Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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“A Way not to See”: Immersive Dramaturgies of Migration and Displacement
Musca, S., 7 Dec 2021, In: Coup de Théâtre. 35, p. 131-147Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Public talk, debate, discussion
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Opening our mouths - the multiplicities of the audible migrant
Katja Krebs (Speaker) & Szabolcs Musca (Host)
15 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
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Migrant Dramaturgies - Trajectories of a Collaboration
Katja Krebs (Host) & Szabolcs Musca (Speaker)
12 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion