| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 215 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: THE ART OF DEVISING; PART ONE: Genealogies and Histories; TWO. BUT IS IT ART?: Art and Non-Art; THREE. THE CREATIVE PERFORMER; FOUR. ART, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM; PART TWO: Shaping Narratives; FIVE. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCE; SIX. NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITY; SEVEN. ADAPTING FICTIONAL STORIES; PART THREE: Places and Spaces; EIGHT. MAKING PERFORMANCE SPACE/CREATING ENVIRONMENTS; NINE. THE PLACE OF THE ARTIST; TEN. BETWEEN ROUTES AND ROOTS: Performance, Place and Diaspora; PART FOUR: Performing Bodies |
| Summary |
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 accessi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Experimental theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Experimental theater -- History -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nicholson, Helen, 1958-
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Normington, Katie, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0203946952 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203946954 (electronic bk.) |
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