Performance perspectives : a critical introduction /
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Imprint: | Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
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Description: | xx, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Performance art -- Philosophy. Performance art -- Study and teaching. Performance artists -- Training of. Performing arts -- Philosophy. Performance art -- Study and teaching. Performing arts -- Philosophy. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8550627 |
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245 | 0 | 0 | |a Performance perspectives : |b a critical introduction / |c edited by Jonathan Pitches and Sita Popat ; foreword by Mick Wallis. |
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a ch. 1. Introduction / Jonathan Pitches -- Performance perspectives -- Borth Bench -- Summary -- Chapter summaries -- Activities -- Further reading -- ch. 2. Body / introduced and edited by Anna Fenemore -- Introduction -- 2.1. Any body? The multiple bodies of the performer / Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara -- The textual body -- The lived body -- The ecstatic (or fleshly) body -- The recessive (or visceral) body -- The unnatural body -- The imagined body -- 2.2. Some body and no body: the body of a performer / Wendy Houston -- Some body -- No body -- A somebody or a nobody -- The 'at risk' body -- The ageing body -- 2.3. Every body: performance's other bodies / Anna Fenemore -- Some bodies observed -- The spectating body -- The social body -- The uncomfortable body -- The absent body -- The transformed body -- The irreplaceable body -- Activities -- Further reading -- ch. 3. Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer -- Introduction -- Contents note continued: 3.1. Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity / Dorita Hannah -- Performing space -- Event-space and spatial events -- The end of illusion -- The empty space -- Disciplinary manoeuvres -- Presencing architecture -- 3.2. Scenographic space and place / Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer -- 3.3. Audience space/scenographic space / Scott Palmer -- Performance space and the audience -- Performance place and scenographic space -- The empty space and the performer -- Activities -- Further reading -- | |
505 | 0 | |a ch. 4. Time / introduced and edited by Tony Gardner -- Introduction -- 4.1. Theatre, technology and time / Steve Dixon -- Postmodern time -- Extratemporality -- Freezing time -- Conclusion time -- 4.2. Ghost Dance: time and duration in the work of Lone Twin / Gregg Whelan in conversation with Tony Gardner -- 4.3. The lives and times of performance / Tony Gardner -- The unique connection between performance and time -- Antony Gormley and the Fourth Plinth -- Grasping time -- Conclusion -- Activities -- Further reading --ch. 5. Technology / introduced and edited by Sita Popat -- Introduction -- 5.1. Gaming and performance: narrative and identity / Jessica Wood -- Computer games as drama -- Self-representation and the avatar -- Being there, doing that -- The fourth wall -- Conclusion -- 5.2. SwanQuake: House: 'messing the system up' / Sita Popat -- SwanQuake: House: A personal experience (Sita Popat) -- Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli -- 5.3. Performance and technology: the myth of disembodiment / Sita Popat -- Introduction -- Cyberspace -- 'Touching with my eyes' -- Liveness -- Is any body out there? -- Conclusion -- Activities -- Further reading -- | |
505 | 0 | |a ch. 6. Interactivity / introduced and edited by Alice O'Grady -- Introduction -- Two perspectives on interaction -- 6.1. Boalian perspectives on interactivity in theatre / John Somers -- Introduction -- The real and the fictional -- What kinds of interactivity are there? -- What does the audience contribute? -- What are the challenges for the actors? -- The need for closure and for support post-event -- Conclusion -- 6.2. Interactivity and the work of Blast Theory / Matt Adams in Conversation with Alice O'Grady -- 6.3. Interactivity: functions and risks / Alice O'Grady -- Interactivity and performance -- Interactive performance is always incomplete -- Interactivity in practice -- Spaces of interactivity -- Conclusion -- Activities -- Further reading -- ch. 7. Organization / introduced and edited by Calvin Taylor -- Introduction -- 7.1. Performance, culture, industry / Ralph Brown -- Value, assets and returns -- Communities of practice -- Conclusion -- 7.2. Organizational agility and improvisation / Teo Greenstreet -- 7.3. Performance, organization, theory / Calvin Taylor -- The machine metaphor -- Organization as organism -- Organization as network -- Activities -- Further reading -- ch. 8. Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches. | |
520 | 8 | |a This critical introduction to Performance Studies provides undergraduates with an accessible way into terminology and context. Using a tripartite structure that combines the voices of artists, critics and teachers, it addresses a variety of practices moving through body, space, time, technology, interactivity and organization. | |
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