Marcus Bell

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My research has two major threads. On the one hand, I examine queer performance practice, experimental form, and the intersection of queer performance and theory. This work gravitates toward choreography as a modality for critical re-imaginations of the political, ethical and social. Expanding the choreographic as I work towards a capacious account of the tension between queer practices of deconstruction, failure, decay and the resurgence of colonial and imperial structures of power. On the other hand, I work with and through tragedy and the tragic. I do so to develop my analysis of the decompositional to include forms of cultural production that reckon with the catastrophic, revolutionary and with moments of overwhelme and loss that give way to radical modes of transformation. My work sketches emergent understandings of tragedy to develop a critical and anti-hierarchical model of the tragic \u2013 suggesting redefinitions of and shifts in performance's relationship to dominant forms of cultural value.<\/p>\n<p>I have published on queer dance as a kinetic and fleeting mode of reception in the work of Derek Jarman; experimental performances of tragedy, embodied through practices of failure, within the context of the queer rave; and I have argued for a reconfiguration of dominant narratives around liveness and presence in the reception of tragedy \u2013 through queer choreographic practice \u2013 by attending to absence, ghostliness, and the speculative. <\/p>\n<p>Forthcoming publications consider dance, queerness, the tragic, and the ruin in the work of Gis\u00e8le Vienne; an interweaving of the work of Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz and Lauren Berlant in a reading of Euripides' 'Bacchae'; tragedy and the dying act in Pina Bausch's 'Rite of Spring' ; and further writing on contemporary practice and queer theory for Contemporary Theatre Review. <\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on a monograph project that emerged from my doctoral thesis and a second project on queerness, choreography, tragedy and extinction.<\/p>"}],"conferences":[{"description":"Thick & Tight is a queer dance theatre company co-directed by Daniel Hay-Gordon and El Perry. For this Dansox event, Daniel and El will be presenting an open rehearsal of a new solo called The Leopard","title":"Thick and Tight, in conversation","url":"https:\/\/www.torch.ox.ac.uk\/event\/thick-and-tight","year":"2025"},{"description":"DANSOX and the University of Oxford Cultural Programme are delighted to invite you to a special evening with pioneering dance artist and choreographer Lil Buck. The event will include an exclusive co","title":"Lil Buck and and Benoit-Swan Pouffer, in conversation","url":"https:\/\/dansox3.wordpress.com\/upcoming-events\/","year":"2025"},{"description":"Chorus International Performance Research Network, April 2025","title":"Choreotragedy: Dance and the Queer Tragic Turn","url":null,"year":"2025"},{"description":null,"title":"\u2018\u201cWhat kind of world is this in which\u201d - Queer Tragedy Now, an Aesthetics of Collapse\u2019, International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Our State","url":null,"year":"2024"},{"description":null,"title":"Disassembling the world \u2013 Trajal Harrell\u2019s \u201cDeathbed\u201d; Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney\u2019s \u201cFigures in Extinction [1.0]\u201d\u2019. Performance Studies Internati","url":null,"year":"2024"},{"description":null,"title":"'Dance Against the Void', Performance Research Forum, Goldsmiths, 6 February 2024","url":null,"year":"2024"},{"description":null,"title":"\u2018Encountering Absence: queer traces and performance otherwise in Trajal Harrell\u2019s Antigone Jr ++\u2019, Tragedy Queered, 6\u20147 July 2023, International Con","url":null,"year":"2023"},{"description":null,"title":"Dimitris Papaioannou in Conversation, 4 March 2024","url":"https:\/\/www.classics.ox.ac.uk\/event\/dimitris-papaioannou-in-conversation","year":"2024"},{"description":null,"title":"\u2018Eat the Rich\u2019 Tragedy and the Aesthetics of Violence, Chorus, International Performance Research Network, April 2024","url":null,"year":"2024"},{"description":"Co-delivered with Jordan Tannahill, Re-Imagining Performance Network, University of Oxford 6 December 2021","title":"\u2018Staging Wild: Non-Human Subjectivity in Performance\u2019","url":"https:\/\/www.torch.ox.ac.uk\/event\/staging-wild-non-human-subjectivity-in-performance","year":"2021"},{"description":"DANSOX Summer School 2021: Unfolding Gesture: Movement, Inscription, Music.","title":"Dimitris Papaioannou: Notation, Gesture, Reenactment , Response","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NxFaUP-s1Ww","year":"2021"},{"description":null,"title":"Pina Bausch and Tragedy","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oa4sySqpAZY","year":"2020"},{"description":"Delivered talk at Oxford\u2019s Queer Studies Network","title":"On tragic pleasure in Harry Clayton Wrights Deep Clean","url":null,"year":"2020"},{"description":"Part of the Time, Tense, and Genre conference, King\u2019s College London","title":"Mis-step in Time: Dancing Elsewhere and Elsewhen in Euripides\u2019 Bacchae","url":null,"year":"2019"},{"description":null,"title":"\u2018\u201cWarp the text\u201d: Glitch Philology, Arca, SOPHIE\u2019 with Nicolette D\u2019Angelo, \u2018QATC 2022 \u201cYou Better Work\u201d: Queer Labour, Queer Liberation\u2019, 8\u20149 April,","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6VI_rW27fpM","year":"2020"},{"description":"19th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama, APGRD","title":"Queer Contexts and Communal Hauntings: Re-enacting Neil Greenberg\u2019s Not-About- AIDS-Dance\u2019 through Euripides\u2019 Bacchae","url":null,"year":"2019"}],"projects":[{"text":"<p>I co-convene a set of research networks which aim to further interdisciplinary study on Dance, and Theatre and Performance including the Queer Futures Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. I am an archival-researcher at the Archive for Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD). I am also working with the Critical Ancient World Studies collective on a collective book project (forthcoming).<\/p>"}],"research_projects":[{"description":null,"title":"Queer and the Classical","url":"https:\/\/queerandtheclassical.org\/","yearFrom":"2020","yearTo":null},{"description":null,"title":"Queer Futures Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research","url":"https:\/\/iftr.org\/working-groups\/queer-futures","yearFrom":"2024","yearTo":null}],"teaching_intro":[{"text":"<p>I am interested in supervising projects on the following topics:<\/p>\n<p>-queer performance<br \/>\n-experimental performance<br \/>\n-dance and\/or choreography<br \/>\n-decoloniality<br \/>\n-ecologies<br \/>\n-tragedy<br \/>\n-classical reception<\/p>\n<p>And I teach on the following courses:<\/p>"}]},"userId":"717","proId":"492"}, 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Book","13":"Edited Journal","14":"Exhibition Catalogue","15":"Experiment","16":"Film\/Video","17":"Image","18":"Patent","19":"Performance","20":"Printed Ephemera","21":"Professional Activity","22":"Project","23":"Report","24":"Show\/Exhibition","25":"Software","26":"Thesis","27":"Other"}' data-emailName='Marcus Bell' data-emailHref='https://www.gold.ac.uk/contact/form/?id=ae875af3-f76e-4c40-bab5-1b9056988545&name=Marcus+Bell' data-publication='<h4>Article</h4><ul><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38038/" aria-label="Review: Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth, Blood Show, Battersea Arts Centre, 12-23 November 2024: Transition, violence, and the choreographic on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Review: Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth, Blood Show, Battersea Arts Centre, 12-23 November 2024: Transition, violence, and the choreographic</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2025. Review: Ocean Hester Stefan Chillingworth, Blood Show, Battersea Arts Centre, 12-23 November 2024: Transition, violence, and the choreographic. Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 7(2), pp. 137-142. ISSN 2515-0073 </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37977/" aria-label="“May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth”: An Aesthetics of Fracture on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>“May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth”: An Aesthetics of Fracture</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2025. “May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth”: An Aesthetics of Fracture. Contemporary Theatre Review, 35(2-3), pp. 299-302. ISSN 1048-6801 </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37978/" aria-label=""I’ve been looking for things that last” on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>"I’ve been looking for things that last”</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2024. "I’ve been looking for things that last”. Contemporary Theatre Review: Interventions, </li></ul><div class="expand-container"> <div class="button-wrapper chevron-left"> <button id="show-more-article" class="show-more" data-disclosure-custom="" data-custom-content-show="Show more information" data-custom-content-hide="Hide information" aria-controls="show-more-article-content" aria-expanded="false">Show more information</button> </div> <div id="show-more-article-content" class="show-more-reveal" style="margin-top:0" hidden=""> <ul><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33984/" aria-label="‘Dance against the void’: Derek Jarman, dance, queer classical receptions on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>‘Dance against the void’: Derek Jarman, dance, queer classical receptions</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2024. ‘Dance against the void’: Derek Jarman, dance, queer classical receptions. Classical Receptions Journal, 16(2), pp. 178-193. ISSN 1759-5134 </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33983/" aria-label="Bell, M. (2022) Review of Gianvittorio-Ungar, L. and K. Schlapbach (eds.) Choreonarratives: dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Bell, M. (2022) Review of Gianvittorio-Ungar, L. and K. Schlapbach (eds.) Choreonarratives: dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2022. Bell, M. (2022) Review of Gianvittorio-Ungar, L. and K. Schlapbach (eds.) Choreonarratives: dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, ISSN 1055-7660 </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33982/" aria-label="INFERNO: Catastrophically Queer on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>INFERNO: Catastrophically Queer</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2021. INFERNO: Catastrophically Queer. Agôn. Revue des arts de la scène, 9, ISSN 1961-8581 </li></ul> </div> </div><h4>Book Section</h4><ul><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37979/" aria-label="Dance, Tragedy and the Dying Act: Pina Bausch’s "Rite of Spring" on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Dance, Tragedy and the Dying Act: Pina Bausch’s "Rite of Spring"</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2026. Dance, Tragedy and the Dying Act: Pina Bausch’s "Rite of Spring". In: Cécile Dudouyt; Sofia Frade and Justine McConnell, eds. Reshaping Reception: Archiving and Performing Antiquity. </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37975/" aria-label="Cruel Futurity in Euripides’ "Bacchae": Dance, Impasse, Ecstasy on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Cruel Futurity in Euripides’ "Bacchae": Dance, Impasse, Ecstasy</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2025. Cruel Futurity in Euripides’ "Bacchae": Dance, Impasse, Ecstasy. In: Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha and Edith Hall, eds. Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 284-301. ISBN 9780192858498 </li><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37976/" aria-label="Queer Ruins at the End of the World: Gisèle Vienne’s "Crowd" on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Queer Ruins at the End of the World: Gisèle Vienne’s "Crowd"</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2025. Queer Ruins at the End of the World: Gisèle Vienne’s "Crowd". In: Ezra Baudou and Anne-Violaine Houcke, eds. Ruin and Ruination: Staging Antiquities in Contemporary Cinema and Theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press. </li></ul><div class="expand-container"> <div class="button-wrapper chevron-left"> <button id="show-more-book-section" class="show-more" data-disclosure-custom="" data-custom-content-show="Show more information" data-custom-content-hide="Hide information" aria-controls="show-more-book-section-content" aria-expanded="false">Show more information</button> </div> <div id="show-more-book-section-content" class="show-more-reveal" style="margin-top:0" hidden=""> <ul><li><a href=https://www.gold.ac.uk/music-english-theatre/people/bell-marcus/"https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33981/" aria-label="Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise on research.gold.ac.uk"><strong>Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise</strong></a> Bell, Marcus. 2023. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise. In: Ella Haselswerdt; Sara H. Lindheim and Kirk Ormand, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 138-152. ISBN 9781032026794 </li></ul> </div> </div>'>

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