Performance perspectives: a critical introduction

Performance perspectives: a critical introduction

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This critical introduction to Performance Studies provides undergraduates with an accessible way into terminology and context. Using an innovative 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. JONATHAN PITCHES is Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of 'Vsevolod Meyerhold 'and 'Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting', and founding co-editor of 'Theatre Dance and Performance Training'. . SITA POPAT is Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries and Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of 'Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities', and Associate Editor of the 'International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media'. INDICE: List of Illustrations and Figures - List of Tables - Notes on Contributors - Foreword; 'M.Wallis' - Acknowledgements - Introduction; 'J.Pitches'- PART I: BODY; 'Introduced and edited by A.Fenemore' - Any Body? The Multiple Bodies of the Performer; 'V.Ramirez Ladron De Guevera' - Some Body and No Body: The Body of a Performer; 'W.Houstoun' - Every Body: Performance's Other Bodies; 'A.Fenemore' - PART II: SPACE; 'Introduced and edited by S.Palmer' - Event-Space: Performance Space and Spatial Performativity; 'D.Hannah' - Scenographic Space and Place; 'L.A.Wilson' - Audience Space/Scenographic Space; 'S.Palmer' - PART III: TIME; 'Introduced and edited by T.Gardner' - Theatre, Technology and Time; 'S.Dixon' - 'Ghost Dance': Time and Duration in the Work of Lone Twin; 'G.Whelan' - The Lives and Times of Performance; 'T.Gardner' - PART IV: TECHNOLOGY; 'Introduced and edited by S.Popat' - Gaming and Performance: Narrative and Identity; 'J.Wood' - 'SwanQuake' 'House' - 'Messing the System Up'; 'R.Gibson &'' B.Martelli' - Performance and Technology: The Myth of Disembodiment; 'S.Popat' - PART V: INTERACTIVITY; 'Introduced and edited by A.O'Grady' - Boalian Perspectives on Interactivity in Theatre; 'J.Somers' - Interactivity and the Work of Blast Theory; 'M.Adams' - Interactivity: Functions and Risks; 'A.O'Grady' - PART VI: ORGANISATION; 'Introduced and edited by C.Taylor' - Performance, Culture and Industry; 'R.Brown' - Organisational Agility and Improvisation; 'T.Greenstreet' - Performance, Organisation, Theory; 'C.Taylor' - Epilogue; 'J.Pitches' - Bibliography

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-24346-0
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 264
  • Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés