Readings in Performance and Ecology [electronic resource] /
Arons, Wendy.author.
May, Theresa J.author.
This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Ecocriticism and Dramatic Literature; 1. Theater, Environment, and the Thirties; 2. Bringing Blood to Ghosts: English Canadian Drama and the Ecopolitics of Place; 3. Other Others: Dramatis Animalia in Some Alternative American Drama; II Animals and/in Performance; 4. The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species; 5. Dancing with Monkeys? On Performance Commons and Scientific Experiments
6. Everything à la Giraffe : Science, Performance, and a Spectacular Body in Nineteenth-Century ViennaIII Theorizing Ecoperformance; 7. Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance; 8. Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic; 9. Stillness in Nature: Eeo Stubblefield's Still Dance with Anna Halprin; IV Ecoactivism and Performance; 10. British Alternative Companies and Antinuclear Plays: Eco-conscious Theater in Thatcher's Britain; 11. Bikes, Choices, Action! Embodied Performances of Sustainability by a Traveling Theater Group
12. Earth First!'s "Crack the Dam" and the Aesthetics of Ecoactivist PerformanceV Case Studies in Green Theater; 13. Ecodirecting Canonical Plays; 14. Devising Green Piece : A Holistic Pedagogy for Artists and Educators; 15. Sound Ecology in the Woods: Red Riding Hood Takes an Audio Walk; 16. The Labor of Greening Love's Labour's Lost; 17. Theatrical Production's Carbon Footprint; Epilogue: Thinking Forward . . .; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land. .
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.