Analysing performance

A critical reader

By: Patrick Campbell (Editor)

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Paperback | 22 February 1996

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"Analysing Performance" is a wide-ranging collection of essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts. Each essay tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analyzing dance, drama, music and videos. The commitment to cross-disciplinary approaches mirrors the breakdown of boundaries between these art forms in today's multi-media world. How do postmodernist, feminist or psychoanalytic readings construct performance worlds? What is the impact of multiculturalism on the language of theatre? What are the dynamics between AIDS, representation and live art? How does one talk about "the bod" in contemporary dance forms? Contributors include: Elizabeth Wright on psychoanalysis, Baz Kershaw on the politics of performance, Jatinda Verma on multiculturalism, E. Ann Kaplan on MTV and video, Lizbeth Goodman on feminism and AIDS, and Stephen Connor on postmodernism.

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'...offers a wonderful panoply of theory and criticism, as well as exposure to important English language theatre artists, companies and productions.' --"Theatre Journal"

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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Interpretations and issues	p. 1
Feminisms and theatres: canon fodder and cultural change	p. 19
Bodies of knowledge: dance and feminist analysis	p. 43
Gender as sign-system: the feminist spectator as subject	p. 56
New perspectives: feminism and music	p. 70
Feminism(s)/postmodernism(s): MTV and alternate women's videos and performance art	p. 82
Postmodern performance	p. 107
Postmodern dance and the politics of resistance	p. 125
The politics of performance in a postmodern age	p. 133
Reading difficulties	p. 153
Psychoanalysis and the theatrical: analysing performance	p. 175
The challenge of Binglish: analysing multi-cultural productions	p. 193
AIDS and live art	p. 203
Does authenticity matter? The case for and against authenticity in the performing arts	p. 219
'Sexing the Cherry'; High or Low Art? Distinctions in performance	p. 234
Changing perspectives	p. 244
Bodies politic, proscribed and perverse: censorship and the performing arts	p. 267
Select Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 299
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