Performance perspectives :
Performance perspectives : a critical introduction /
edited by Jonathan Pitches and Sita Popat.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- xx, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
CHAPTER 1 Introduction / Jonathan Pitches : CHAPTER 2 Body / introduced and edited by Anna Fenemore : Introduction -- 2.1 Any body? The multiple bodies of the performer / Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara : 2.2 Some body and no body: the body of a performer / Wendy Houston : 2.3 Every body: performance's other bodies / Anna Fenemore : CHAPTER 3 Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer : Introduction : 3.1. Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity / Dorita Hannah : 3.2. Scenographic space and place / Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer -- 3.3. Audience space/scenographic space / Scott Palmer : CHAPTER 4 Time / introduced and edited by Tony Gardner : Introduction -- 4.1. Theatre, technology and time / Steve Dixon : 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 : CHAPTER 5 Technology / introduced and edited by Sita Popat : Introduction -- 5.1. Gaming and performance: narrative and identity / Jessica Wood : 5.2. SwanQuake: House: 'messing the system up' / Sita Popat : 5.3. Performance and technology: the myth of disembodiment / Sita Popat : CHAPETR 6 Interactivity / introduced and edited by Alice O'Grady : Introduction -- Two perspectives on interaction -- 6.1. Boalian perspectives on interactivity in theatre / John Somers : 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 : CHAPTER 7 Organization / introduced and edited by Calvin Taylor : Introduction -- 7.1. Performance, culture, industry / Ralph Brown : 7.2. Organizational agility and improvisation / Teo Greenstreet -- 7.3. Performance, organization, theory / Calvin Taylor : CHAPTER 8 Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches. Performance perspectives ; Borth Bench ; Summary ; Chapter summaries ; Activities ; Further reading -- The textual body ; The lived body ; The ecstatic (or fleshly) body ; The recessive (or visceral) body ; The unnatural body ; The imagined body -- Some body ; No body ; A somebody or a nobody ; The 'at risk' body ; The ageing body -- Some bodies observed ; The spectating body ; The social body ; The uncomfortable body ; The absent body ; The transformed body ; The irreplaceable body ; Activities ; Further reading -- Performing space ; Event-space and spatial events ; The end of illusion ; The empty space ; Disciplinary manoeuvres ; Presencing architecture -- Performance space and the audience ; Performance place and scenographic space ; The empty space and the performer ; Activities -- Postmodern time ; Extratemporality ; Freezing time ; Conclusion time -- The unique connection between performance and time ; Antony Gormley and the Fourth Plinth ; Grasping time ; Conclusion ; Activities ; Further reading -- Computer games as drama ; Self-representation and the avatar ; Being there, doing that ; The fourth wall ; Conclusion -- SwanQuake: House: A personal experience (Sita Popat) ; Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli -- Introduction ; Cyberspace ; 'Touching with my eyes' ; Liveness ; Is any body out there? ; Conclusion ; Activities -- 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 -- Interactivity and performance ; Interactive performance is always incomplete ; Interactivity in practice ; Spaces of interactivity ; Conclusion ; Activities ; Further reading -- Value, assets and returns ; Communities of practice ; Conclusion -- The machine metaphor ; Organization as organism ; Organization as network ; Activities ; Further reading --
"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." -- Publisher description.
9780230243453 0230243452
015820501 Uk
Performing arts.
PN1584 / .P473 2011
792.028 / PIT
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
CHAPTER 1 Introduction / Jonathan Pitches : CHAPTER 2 Body / introduced and edited by Anna Fenemore : Introduction -- 2.1 Any body? The multiple bodies of the performer / Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara : 2.2 Some body and no body: the body of a performer / Wendy Houston : 2.3 Every body: performance's other bodies / Anna Fenemore : CHAPTER 3 Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer : Introduction : 3.1. Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity / Dorita Hannah : 3.2. Scenographic space and place / Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer -- 3.3. Audience space/scenographic space / Scott Palmer : CHAPTER 4 Time / introduced and edited by Tony Gardner : Introduction -- 4.1. Theatre, technology and time / Steve Dixon : 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 : CHAPTER 5 Technology / introduced and edited by Sita Popat : Introduction -- 5.1. Gaming and performance: narrative and identity / Jessica Wood : 5.2. SwanQuake: House: 'messing the system up' / Sita Popat : 5.3. Performance and technology: the myth of disembodiment / Sita Popat : CHAPETR 6 Interactivity / introduced and edited by Alice O'Grady : Introduction -- Two perspectives on interaction -- 6.1. Boalian perspectives on interactivity in theatre / John Somers : 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 : CHAPTER 7 Organization / introduced and edited by Calvin Taylor : Introduction -- 7.1. Performance, culture, industry / Ralph Brown : 7.2. Organizational agility and improvisation / Teo Greenstreet -- 7.3. Performance, organization, theory / Calvin Taylor : CHAPTER 8 Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches. Performance perspectives ; Borth Bench ; Summary ; Chapter summaries ; Activities ; Further reading -- The textual body ; The lived body ; The ecstatic (or fleshly) body ; The recessive (or visceral) body ; The unnatural body ; The imagined body -- Some body ; No body ; A somebody or a nobody ; The 'at risk' body ; The ageing body -- Some bodies observed ; The spectating body ; The social body ; The uncomfortable body ; The absent body ; The transformed body ; The irreplaceable body ; Activities ; Further reading -- Performing space ; Event-space and spatial events ; The end of illusion ; The empty space ; Disciplinary manoeuvres ; Presencing architecture -- Performance space and the audience ; Performance place and scenographic space ; The empty space and the performer ; Activities -- Postmodern time ; Extratemporality ; Freezing time ; Conclusion time -- The unique connection between performance and time ; Antony Gormley and the Fourth Plinth ; Grasping time ; Conclusion ; Activities ; Further reading -- Computer games as drama ; Self-representation and the avatar ; Being there, doing that ; The fourth wall ; Conclusion -- SwanQuake: House: A personal experience (Sita Popat) ; Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli -- Introduction ; Cyberspace ; 'Touching with my eyes' ; Liveness ; Is any body out there? ; Conclusion ; Activities -- 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 -- Interactivity and performance ; Interactive performance is always incomplete ; Interactivity in practice ; Spaces of interactivity ; Conclusion ; Activities ; Further reading -- Value, assets and returns ; Communities of practice ; Conclusion -- The machine metaphor ; Organization as organism ; Organization as network ; Activities ; Further reading --
"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." -- Publisher description.
9780230243453 0230243452
015820501 Uk
Performing arts.
PN1584 / .P473 2011
792.028 / PIT