Performance Perspectives A Critical Introduction

by Pitches, Jonathan; Popat, Sita

• ISBN13: 9780230243460
• ISBN10: 0230243460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. Sita Popat is Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK.

Table of Contents

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
SwanQuakeHouse - '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