Applying Performance [electronic resource] : Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice /
Shaughnessy, N.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Applying Performance -- PART I: HISTORIES & CONTEXTS -- Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts -- Pasts, Pioneers, Politics -- Principles of Applying Performance -- PART II: PRACTICES -- Performing Lives -- Placing Performance -- Digital Transportations -- PART III: PARTICIPATION -- Unhappy Relations: Critiques of Collaboration -- Theme Park Hells: Incarcerations -- Participant Centred Pedagaogy and the Affective Learning Environment: LIFT 2011 -- A Taste of Heaven: (Syn) aesthetics and Participatory Visceral Performance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
Theater.
Theater-History.
Performing arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.