Performing Cities [electronic resource] /
Whybrow, N.editor.
Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Writing Performing Cities: An Introduction; Part I: Urban Rhythms; 1 Performing Palermo: Protests Against Forgetting; 2 Sprawled, Distracted and Trembling: Performing LA; 3 Performing Paris: An Ecography of Meridians and Atmospheres; 4 Performing Chicago: Seven Demolitions; 5 Performing Cape Town: An Epidemiological Study in Three Acts; 6 Performing Cardiff: Six Approaches to a City and Its Performance Pasts; Part II: Urban Lands; 7 Performing Sydney: Inhabiting the Edge
8 Performing Toronto: Enacting Creative Labour in the Neoliberal City9 Performing Singapore: City/State; 10 Performing Belgrade: Itineraries of Belonging; 11 Performing Jerusalem: Religious, Historical, Ideological and Political Scenarios - and Some Personal Ones; 12 Performing Bogotá: Memories of an Urban Bombing; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Arts.
Theater.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.