Performance Perspectives : A Critical Introduction

ISBN 10: 0230243460 / ISBN 13: 9780230243460

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2011

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• Titolo: Performance Perspectives : A Critical Introduction
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230243460
• ISBN 13: 9780230243460
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 0,842 libbre

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Riassunto

What is 'performance'? What are the boundaries of Performance Studies? How do we talk about contemporary performance practices today in simple but probing terms? What kinds of practices represent the field and how can we interpret them?

Combining the voices of academics, artists, cultural critics and teachers, Performance Perspectives answers these questions and provides a critical introduction to Performance Studies. Presenting an accessible way into key terminology and context, it offers a new model for analyzing contemporary performance based on six frames or perspectives:

- Body
- Space
- Time
- Technology
- Interactivity
- Organization

Drawing on examples from a wide range of practices across site specific performance, virtual reality, dance, applied theatre and everyday performance, Performance Perspectives addresses the binary of theory and practice and highlights the many meeting points between studio and seminar room. Each chapter takes the innovative form of a three-way conversation, bringing together theoretical introductions with artist interviews and practitioner statements. The book is supported by activities for discussion and practical devising work, as well as clear guidance for further reading and an extensive reference list across media

Performance Perspectives is essential reading for anyone studying, interpreting or making performance.

Informazioni sugli autori

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. He specialises in the study of performer training and has wider interests in intercultural performance, environmental performance and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training and has published several books in this area: Vsevolod Meyerhold (2003), Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (2006/9) Russians in Britain (2012) and Stanislavsky in the World (with Dr Stefan Aquilina 2017). He is currently working on two new book projects, Great Stage Directors Vol 3: Komisarjevsky, Copeau, Guthrie (2017) and Performing Landscapes: Mountains (2018), supported by the AHRC.

SITA POPAT is Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries and Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds, UK.