Screen LibraryRisk, Participation, and Performance Practice : Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World /
This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that prom...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63242-1 |
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This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that promote, encourage and embrace risky encounters in a variety of forms. The collection brings together established voices on performance and risk research and draws them into conversation with next generation academic-practitioners in a dynamic reappraisal of what it means to risk oneself through the a |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XXIV, 264 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319632421 |
| Index Number: | PN2000 |
| CLC: | J81 |
| Contents: | Preface; Alice O Grady -- 1. Introduction: Risky Aesthetics, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Edgeplay: Tactical Performances of the Unknown; Alice O Grady -- 2. Theatre in the Age of Uncertainty: Memory, Technology, and Risk in Simon McBurney s The Encounter and Robert Lepage s 887; Lourdes Orozco -- 3. Putting Prejudices on the Spot and in the Spotlight: The Risks of Politically Motivated Public Space Performance Practices; Bree Hadley -- 4. The Drama Spiral: A Decision-Making Model for Safe, Ethical, and Flexible Practice when Incorporating Personal Stories in Applied Theatre and Performance |