Applying performance : live art, socially engaged theatre and affective practice / Nicola Shaughnessy

By:

Shaughnessy, Nicola

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xxi, 288 p. : il. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780230241336 (cart.)
9781137525857 (rúst. : 2015)

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Contents:

Conté: Preface: Defining the Terms -- Part I. Histories and Contexts: 1. Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts -- Remembering birth of Gof -- Affective practice -- The naming of applied performance -- 2. Pasts, Pioneers, Politics -- Avant-garde and radical theatres -- Bread and Puppet Theatre -- Welfare State International -- The problems and politics of intervention -- Reflections on the present -- Principles of applying performance -- 2.1. Applying performance: principles and a cognitive paradigm of practice -- Part II. Practices: 3. Performing Lives -- 3.1. Autobiography and applied performance -- 3.2. Acts of recall: memory, identity and post-traumatic performance -- Touching trauma: Vayu Naidu's rasaesthetics and performance storytelling -- 3.3. Remembered lives and the continuous present: applied performance and dementia -- Remembering to forget: a trip down memory lane -- Good medicine: multisensory performance and affective science in Spare Tyre's Once Upon a Time -- 3.4. Between lives: intergenerational performance -- Memories, archives and personal performance: The Women's Library and Magic Me -- 3.5. Making it real through applying performance -- Home truths: London Bubble's My Home -- The true real: Mark Storer's Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories -- 4. Placing Performance -- 4.1. Placing applied performance -- Space and place in applied performance -- Site and place -- Problematizing place -- Changing places: public art and performance in Margate -- Contesting place: shifting theoretical positions -- 4.2. Stan's cafe: Plague Nation/Of All the People in All the World -- 4.3. Remaking museum space: Reckless Sleepers' Creating the Past -- Creating the Past as post-dramatic museum theatre -- Perspectives on evaluation -- 4.4. Beyond site: Accidental Collective's Pebbles to the Pier -- 5. Digital Transportations -- Digital divides, digital natives and C & T -- Embodying sonic technologies: Melanie Wilson's sound art -- Part III. Participation -- 6. Participatory (Syn)Aesthetics -- 6.1. Unhappy relations: critiques of collaboration -- 6.2. Theme Park Hells: Incarcerations -- This is Camp X Ray -- State of Incarceration -- 6.3. Participant centered pedagogy and the affective learning environment: LIFT 2011 -- Performing the Living Archive: And the Winner is ... London -- Through the round window -- 6.4. A taste of Heaven: (Syn)Aesthetics and Participatory Visceral performance -- Martha Bowers: The Dream Life of Bricks -- 6.5. 'Something Moves': (Syn)Aesthetics, Rasaesthetics and the performance of autism -- 'Making up you mind': engaging with autism -- Through the looking glass: the autistic consciousness and post-dramatic theatre: Jacqui Russell and Red Kite (Chicago Children's Theatre) -- Conclusion: Affective Practice

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792.06 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900070995

Reimpressions: 2015

Bibliografia p. 263-278. Índex

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