Performance Prspectives
Pitches, Jonathan,
Performance Prspectives : a critical introduction / Jonathan Pitches - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - xx, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Ch. 1. Introduction / Jonathan Pitches --
Performance perspectives --
Borth Bench --
Summary --
Chapter summaries --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 2. Body / introduced and edited by Anna Fenemore --
Introduction --
2.1. Any body? The multiple bodies of the performer / Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara --
The textual body --
The lived body --
The ecstatic (or fleshly) body --
The recessive (or visceral) body --
The unnatural body --
The imagined body --
2.2. Some body and no body: the body of a performer / Wendy Houston --
Some body --
No body --
A somebody or a nobody --
The 'at risk' body --
The ageing body --
2.3. Every body: performance's other bodies / Anna Fenemore --
Some bodies observed --
The spectating body --
The social body --
The uncomfortable body --
The absent body --
The transformed body --
The irreplaceable body --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 3. Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer --
Introduction --
Contents note continued: 3.1. Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity / Dorita Hannah --
Performing space --
Event-space and spatial events --
The end of illusion --
The empty space --
Disciplinary manoeuvres --
Presencing architecture --
3.2. Scenographic space and place / Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer --
3.3. Audience space/scenographic space / Scott Palmer --
Performance space and the audience --
Performance place and scenographic space --
The empty space and the performer --
Activities --
Further reading. Ch. 4. Time / introduced and edited by Tony Gardner --
Introduction --
4.1. Theatre, technology and time / Steve Dixon --
Postmodern time --
Extratemporality --
Freezing time --
Conclusion time --
4.2. Ghost Dance: time and duration in the work of Lone Twin / Gregg Whelan in conversation with Tony Gardner --
4.3. The lives and times of performance / Tony Gardner --
The unique connection between performance and time --
Antony Gormley and the Fourth Plinth --
Grasping time --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 5. Technology / introduced and edited by Sita Popat --
Introduction --
5.1. Gaming and performance: narrative and identity / Jessica Wood --
Computer games as drama --
Self-representation and the avatar --
Being there, doing that --
The fourth wall --
Conclusion --
5.2. SwanQuake: House: 'messing the system up' / Sita Popat --
SwanQuake: House: A personal experience (Sita Popat) --
Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli --
5.3. Performance and technology: the myth of disembodiment / Sita Popat --
Introduction --
Cyberspace --
'Touching with my eyes' --
Liveness --
Is any body out there? --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading. Ch. 6. Interactivity / introduced and edited by Alice O'Grady --
Introduction --
Two perspectives on interaction --
6.1. Boalian perspectives on interactivity in theatre / John Somers --
Introduction --
The real and the fictional --
What kinds of interactivity are there? --
What does the audience contribute? --
What are the challenges for the actors? --
The need for closure and for support post-event --
Conclusion --
6.2. Interactivity and the work of Blast Theory / Matt Adams in Conversation with Alice O'Grady --
6.3. Interactivity: functions and risks / Alice O'Grady --
Interactivity and performance --
Interactive performance is always incomplete --
Interactivity in practice --
Spaces of interactivity --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 7. Organization / introduced and edited by Calvin Taylor --
Introduction --
7.1. Performance, culture, industry / Ralph Brown --
Value, assets and returns --
Communities of practice --
Conclusion --
7.2. Organizational agility and improvisation / Teo Greenstreet --
7.3. Performance, organization, theory / Calvin Taylor --
The machine metaphor --
Organization as organism --
Organization as network --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 8. Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches.
This critical introduction to Performance Studies provides undergraduates with an accessible way into terminology and context. Using a tripartite structure that combines the voices of artists, critics and teachers, it addresses a variety of practices moving through body, space, time, technology, interactivity and organization.
9780230243460
Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. ;E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhi
Arts
Outline of sports, games and entertainment
Public performances
Performing arts.
Schauspielkunst
791 PIT
Performance Prspectives : a critical introduction / Jonathan Pitches - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - xx, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Ch. 1. Introduction / Jonathan Pitches --
Performance perspectives --
Borth Bench --
Summary --
Chapter summaries --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 2. Body / introduced and edited by Anna Fenemore --
Introduction --
2.1. Any body? The multiple bodies of the performer / Victor Ramirez Ladron de Guevara --
The textual body --
The lived body --
The ecstatic (or fleshly) body --
The recessive (or visceral) body --
The unnatural body --
The imagined body --
2.2. Some body and no body: the body of a performer / Wendy Houston --
Some body --
No body --
A somebody or a nobody --
The 'at risk' body --
The ageing body --
2.3. Every body: performance's other bodies / Anna Fenemore --
Some bodies observed --
The spectating body --
The social body --
The uncomfortable body --
The absent body --
The transformed body --
The irreplaceable body --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 3. Space / introduced and edited by Scott Palmer --
Introduction --
Contents note continued: 3.1. Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity / Dorita Hannah --
Performing space --
Event-space and spatial events --
The end of illusion --
The empty space --
Disciplinary manoeuvres --
Presencing architecture --
3.2. Scenographic space and place / Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer --
3.3. Audience space/scenographic space / Scott Palmer --
Performance space and the audience --
Performance place and scenographic space --
The empty space and the performer --
Activities --
Further reading. Ch. 4. Time / introduced and edited by Tony Gardner --
Introduction --
4.1. Theatre, technology and time / Steve Dixon --
Postmodern time --
Extratemporality --
Freezing time --
Conclusion time --
4.2. Ghost Dance: time and duration in the work of Lone Twin / Gregg Whelan in conversation with Tony Gardner --
4.3. The lives and times of performance / Tony Gardner --
The unique connection between performance and time --
Antony Gormley and the Fourth Plinth --
Grasping time --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 5. Technology / introduced and edited by Sita Popat --
Introduction --
5.1. Gaming and performance: narrative and identity / Jessica Wood --
Computer games as drama --
Self-representation and the avatar --
Being there, doing that --
The fourth wall --
Conclusion --
5.2. SwanQuake: House: 'messing the system up' / Sita Popat --
SwanQuake: House: A personal experience (Sita Popat) --
Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli --
5.3. Performance and technology: the myth of disembodiment / Sita Popat --
Introduction --
Cyberspace --
'Touching with my eyes' --
Liveness --
Is any body out there? --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading. Ch. 6. Interactivity / introduced and edited by Alice O'Grady --
Introduction --
Two perspectives on interaction --
6.1. Boalian perspectives on interactivity in theatre / John Somers --
Introduction --
The real and the fictional --
What kinds of interactivity are there? --
What does the audience contribute? --
What are the challenges for the actors? --
The need for closure and for support post-event --
Conclusion --
6.2. Interactivity and the work of Blast Theory / Matt Adams in Conversation with Alice O'Grady --
6.3. Interactivity: functions and risks / Alice O'Grady --
Interactivity and performance --
Interactive performance is always incomplete --
Interactivity in practice --
Spaces of interactivity --
Conclusion --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 7. Organization / introduced and edited by Calvin Taylor --
Introduction --
7.1. Performance, culture, industry / Ralph Brown --
Value, assets and returns --
Communities of practice --
Conclusion --
7.2. Organizational agility and improvisation / Teo Greenstreet --
7.3. Performance, organization, theory / Calvin Taylor --
The machine metaphor --
Organization as organism --
Organization as network --
Activities --
Further reading --
ch. 8. Epilogue / Jonathan Pitches.
This critical introduction to Performance Studies provides undergraduates with an accessible way into terminology and context. Using a tripartite structure that combines the voices of artists, critics and teachers, it addresses a variety of practices moving through body, space, time, technology, interactivity and organization.
9780230243460
Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. ;E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhi
Arts
Outline of sports, games and entertainment
Public performances
Performing arts.
Schauspielkunst
791 PIT
