Making a Performance Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices

Name: Making a Performance Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices
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ISBN: 9780415286534

ISBN-10: 0415286530

ISBN-13: 9780415286534

Edition: 2007

Authors: Katie Normington, Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson

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Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century. This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages. Designed to be accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Katie Normington, Lecturer in Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London,



Contents List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Art of Devising



Genealogies and Histories



But is it Art? Art and Non-Art



The Creative Performer



Art, Politics and Activism



Shaping Narratives



Autobiographical Performance



Narratives of Community



Adapting Fictional Stories



Places and Spaces



Making Performance Space/Creating Environments



The Place of the Artist



Between Routes and Roots: Performance, Place and Diaspora



Performing Bodies



The Speaking Body: Physical Theatres



Virtual Bodies


Conclusion



Shifting Boundaries: Concluding Thoughts


Bibliography


Index