The senses in performance /
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Routledge, 2007. |
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| Description: | xi, 216 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Worlds of performance |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6247668 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: the performance of the senses
- Part I. Theory and practice
- 2. Rasaesthetics
- 3. Olfactory performances
- 4. Unearthing kinesthesia: groping among cross-cultural models of the senses in performance
- 5. Senses and silence in actor training and performance
- 6. Making sense of food in performance: the table and the stage
- Part II. History
- 7. Edible performance: feasting and festivity in early Tudor entertainment
- 8. Incense & decadents: Symbolist theatre's use of scent
- 9. Sensing realism: illusionism, actuality, and the theatrical sensorium
- Part III. Contemporary performance
- 10. Guiding somatic responses within performative structures: contemporary live art and sensorial perception
- 11. Containment + contamination: a performance landscape for the senses at PQ03
- 12. Seeing nothing: now hear this...
- 13. A doubly "environmental" sensorium: Omaha Magic Theatre's Sea of Forms
- 14. Tangible acts: touch performances
- Part IV. Case studies
- 15. Performers, spectators, cannibals: making sense of theatrical consumption
- 16. Indonesian theatre and its double: Putu Wijaya paints a theatre of mental terror
- 17. Artaud's anatomy
- Index