(Syn)aesthetics Redefining visceral performance /

A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific w...

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Main Authors: Machon, Josephine, 1979
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230236950
Summary: A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 240 p. : 16 b&w, halftones.
ISBN: 9780230221277
9780230236950 :
0230236952 :
CLC: J801
Contents: Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Interview Contributors Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance PART I Defining (Syn)aesthetics Connecting Theories (Syn)aesthetics in Practice PART II Introduction -- A (Syn)aesthetic Exchange Felix Barrett & Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk: In the Prae-sens of Body and Space - the (syn)aesthetics of Site-sympathetic Work Lizzie Clachan & David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World - The Audience and Hybridity Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation - The Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source Marisa Carnesky: