Performing Site-Specific Theatre

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Politics, Place, Practice, Performance Interventions

ISBN: 0230364055
ISBN 13: 9780230364059
Herausgeber: A Birch/J Tompkins
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xv, 253 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Site-specific work is a huge growth area in theatre/performance studies very popular with students and scholars, and increasingly moving into the mainstream (e.g., through companies like Shunt and Punchdrunk)Still relatively little published on performance and place/ site-specific work for upper undergraduates and postgrad students will be used on courses in the UK, USA and AustraliaOffers specially-commissioned essays which fill a real gap in the field first book to provide any kind of historical perspective on contemporary site-specific workFeatures big names in the field from the US, UK, Australia and South Africa (e.g., Susan Bennett at Calgary; Michael McKinnie at QMUL, Mike Pearson at Aberystwyth) – leading theorists and practitionersLikely to have wide appeal across various disciplines (e.g., visual culture, urban studies, art) amongst practitioners through paperback editionExceptional range of innovative performance practices discussedWill include 15 in-text images/photos

Artikelnummer: 9051482 Kategorie:

Beschreibung

This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it

Autorenporträt

BRUCE BARTON Creator/scholar teaching at the University of Toronto, Canada SUSAN BENNETT University Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada JANE COLLINS Professor of Theatre and Performance, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London, UK LESLEY FERRIS Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Ohio State University, USA SUSAN HAEDICKE Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Performance, and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK HELEN IBALL Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Leeds, UK KATHLEEN IRWIN Head of the Theatre Department, University of Regina, Canada MICHAEL MCKINNIE Senior Lecturer in Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK SOPHIE NIELD Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK LOUISE OWEN Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MIKE PEARSON Professor of Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK JULIE SANDERS Professor of English Literature and Drama, University of Nottingham, UK RICHARD WINDEYER Digital media creative, audio artist, composer, musician and educator, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada KEREN ZAIONTZ Lecturer of Drama, Theatre, and Performance, Roehampton University, UK

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