Applying Performance

Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

By: Nicola Shaughnessy

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Hardcover | 1 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.

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"Shaunghessy uses her expert authority to prove that performance matters, and that it matters in an enormous way." - Christine Boyko-Head, Mohawk College, Canada

"...Shaughnessy's analysis of applied performance within the frame of cognitive science raises and rearticulates crucial questions held about the practice, indicating that there may be more to be learned about cognitive science and the value it has for applied performance as a field. Overall this book is a wealth of diverse case studies and analyses surrounding some of the key principles held in applied performance practice, and as such it is a vital read for practitioners and students alike." - Katharine E. Low, New Theatre Quarterly

"Applying Performance opens out a topical landscape of applied practices in the UK that will hopefully yield new and more pertinent approaches to the expanding filed of socially engaged art." Ola Johansson, University of Middlesex, UK

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List of Illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Preface: Defining the Terms	p. xiv
Histories and Contexts
Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts	p. 3
Remembering Brith Gof	p. 4
Affective practice	p. 6
The naming of applied performance	p. 7
Pasts, Pioneers, Politics	p. 15
Avant-garde and radical theatres	p. 15
Bread and Puppet Theatre	p. 21
Welfare State International	p. 23
The problems and politics of intervention	p. 25
Reflections on the present	p. 28
Principles of applying performance	p. 31
Applying performance: principles and a cognitive paradigm of practice	p. 32
Practices
Performing Lives	p. 47
Autobiography and applied performance	p. 47
Acts of recall: memory, identity and post-traumatic performance	p. 58
Touching trauma: Vayu Naidu's rasaesthetics and performance storytelling	p. 61
Remembered lives and the continuous present: applied performance and dementia	p. 68
Remembering to forget: a trip down memory lane	p. 69
Good medicine: multisensory performance and affective science in Spare Tyre's Once Upon a Time	p. 70
Between lives: intergenerational performance	p. 76
Memories, archives and personal performance: The Women's Library and Magic Me	p. 78
Making it real through applying performance	p. 87
Home truths: London Bubble's My Home	p. 89
The true real: Mark Storer's Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories	p. 91
Placing Performance	p. 94
Placing applied performance	p. 94
Space and place in applied performance	p. 98
Site and place	p. 102
Problematizing place	p. 104
Changing places: public art and performance in Margate	p. 108
Contesting place: shifting theoretical positions	p. 112
Stan's Cafe: Plague Nation/Of All the People in All the World	p. 116
Remaking museum space: Reckless Sleepers' Creating the Past	p. 129
Creating the Past as post-dramatic museum theatre	p. 135
Perspectives on evaluation	p. 141
Beyond site: Accidental Collective's Pebbles to the Pier	p. 143
Digital Transportations	p. 159
Digital divides, digital natives and C&T	p. 159
Embodying sonic technologies: Melanie Wilson's sound art	p. 176
Participation
Participatory (Syn)Aesthetics	p. 185
Unhappy relations: critiques of collaboration	p. 187
Theme park hells: incarcerations	p. 202
This is Camp X Ray	p. 202
State of Incarceration	p. 206
Participant centred pedagogy and the affective learning environment: LIFT 2011	p. 209
Performing the Living Archive: And the Winner is… London	p. 211
Through the round window	p. 220
A taste of heaven: (syn)aesthetics and participatory visceral performance	p. 225
Martha Bowers: The Dream Life of Bricks	p. 225
'Something Moves': (syn)aesthetics, rasaesthetics and the performance of autism	p. 233
'Making up your mind': engaging with autism	p. 234
Through the looking glass: the autistic consciousness and post-dramatic theatre: Jacqui Russell and Red Kite (Chicago Children's Theatre)	p. 237
Conclusion: Affective Practice	p. 250
Notes	p. 256
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 279
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