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Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experimental in its techniques. This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays from leading scholars who reflect on their own experiences in Performance Studies and the possibilities this offers to representations of identity, self-and-other, and communities. Theories which have been absorbed into the field are applied to compelling topics in current academic, artistic and community settings. The collection is designed to reflect the diversity of outlooks and provide a guide for students as well as scholars seeking a perspective on research trends.
| Introduction: The pirouette, detour, revolution, deflection, deviation, tack, and yaw of the performative turn | |
| Social polities: history in individuals | |
| Performance and democracy | |
| Performance as research: live events and documents | |
| Movement's contagion: the kinesthetic impact of performance Susan | |
| Performance matters: Bali and Baliology in the years of living dangerously | |
| Universal experience: the city as tourist stage | |
| Performance and intangible culture heritage | |
| Body politics: the individual in history | |
| Live and technologically mediated performance | |
| Moving histories: performance and oral history | |
| What is the 'social' in social practice?: comparing experiments in performance | |
| Live art in art history: a paradox? | |
| Queer theory | |
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ISBN: 9780521874014
ISBN-10: 0521874017
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 208
Published: 13th November 2008
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.46
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