TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitches,Jonathan
AU  - Popat,Sita
TI  - Performance perspectives: a critical introduction 
SN  - 9780230243453 
AV  - PN1584 .P473 2011 
U1  - 792.028 20
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Performing arts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index; CHAPTER 1 Introduction / Jonathan Pitches; Performance perspectives ; Borth Bench ; Summary ; Chapter summaries ; Activities ; Further reading --; 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; 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 --; CHAPTER 3 Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer; Introduction; 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 --; CHAPTER 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 --; CHAPTER 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 --; 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; 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 --; CHAPTER 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 --; CHAPTER 8 Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches
N2  - "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
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