Screen LibraryScenography expanded : an introduction to contemporary performance design /
Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to create and shape performative...
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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Performance + design
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| Summary: |
Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to create and shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites of imaginative exchange and transformative experience and it discusses the social, political and ethical dimensions of performance design. The international range of contributors includes Arnold Aronson, Christopher Baugh, Maaike Bleeker, Thea Brejzek, Ethel Brooks, Jane Collins, Stephen Di Benedetto, Dorita Hannah, Kathleen Irwin, Marcela I. Oteíza, David Shearing, Nebojša Tabački and Melissa Trimingham. The extended introduction by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer defines the characteristics of 21st-century scenography and examines the scope and potentials of this new field. Across five sections, the volume provides examples and case studies which richly illustrate the scope of contemporary scenographic practice and the various ways in which it is used in global cultural contexts. These include mainstream theatre practice, experimental theatre, installation and live art, performance in the city, large-scale events and popular entertainments, and performances by and for specific communities. -- from back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-211) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781474244398 1474244394 9781474244381 1474244386 |
| Index Number: | PN2091 |
| CLC: | J814 |
| Call Number: | J814/S289 |
| Contents: | Introducing 'expanded' scenography / Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer -- 'Devices of wonder' : globalizing technologies in the process of scenography / Christopher Baugh -- Scenographic screen space : bearing witness and performing resistance / Dorita Hannah -- Between symbolic representation and new critical realism : architecture as scenography and scenography as architecture / Thea Brejzek -- City as site : street performance and site permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 / Marcel Oteíza -- Scenography matters : performing Romani identities as strategy and critique / Ethel Brooks and Jane Collins -- Scenographic agency : a showing-doing and a responsibility for showing-doing / Kathleen Irwin -- Thinking that matters : towards a post-anthropocentric approach to performance design / Maaike Bleeker -- Audience immersion, mindfulness and the experience of scenography / David Shearing -- Cognitive approaches to performance design, or how the dead materialize and other spectacular design solutions / Stephen Di Benedetto -- The matter of water : bodily experience of scenography in contemporary spectacle / Nebojša Tabački -- Ecologies of autism : vibrant space in Imagining autism / Melissa Trimingham. |