This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land. . INDICE: Introduction - Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May .Part I: Ecocriticism and Dramatic Literature .Theatre, Environment, and the Thirties - Barry Witham.Bringing Blood to Ghosts: English Canadian Drama and the Ecopolitics of Place - Nelson Gray.Other Others: .Dramatis Animalia. in Some Alternative American Drama - Robert Baker-White.Part II: Animals and/in Performance.The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theatre of Species - Una Chaudhuri.Dancing with Monkeys? On Performance Commons and Scientific Experiments - Baz Kershaw.Everything .Ã la Giraffe.: Science, Performance, and a Spectacular Body in Nineteenth-Century Vienna - Derek Lee Barton.Part III: Theorizing Ecoperformance.Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance - Bruce McConachie.Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic - Kathleen M. Gough.Stillness in Nature: Eeo Stubblefield's Still Dance with Anna Halprin - Arden Thomas.Part IV: Ecoactivism and Performance.British Alternative Companies and Antinuclear Plays: Eco-Conscious Theatre in Thatcher's Britain - Sara Freeman.Bikes, Choices, Action! Embodied Performances of Sustainability by a Traveling Theatre Group - Meg O'Shea.Earth First!'s 'Crack the Dam' and the Aesthetics of Ecoactivist Performance - Sarah Ann Standing.Part V: Case Studies in Green Theatre.Ecodirecting Canonical Plays - Downing Cless.Devising 'Green Piece': A Holistic Pedagogy for Artists and Educators- Anne Justine D'Zmura.Sound Ecology in the Woods:. Red Riding Hood. Takes anAudio Walk - Cornelia Hoogland.The Labor of Greening .Love's Labour's Lost. -Justin A. Miller.Theatrical Production's Carbon Footprint - Ian Garrett.Epilogue: Thinking Forward . . . - Wallace Heim.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-33728-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido