Repetition in Performance
Subtitle: Returns and Invisible Forces
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 25, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781137430533
Description: This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre, Haranczak/Navarre and Marco Berrettini. It addresses repetition in relation to processes of desire and draws attention to the forces that repetition captures and makes visible. What is it in performances of repetition that persuades us to return to them again and again? How might we unpack their complexities and come to terms with their demands upon us? While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experience of theatre in memory and writing--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces