Applying performance
Subtitle: live art, socially engaged theatre and affective practice
By: Nicola Shaughnessy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230241336
Subjects: Theater and society; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; PERFORMING ARTS / General
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface: Applying Performance; title: PART I: HISTORIES & CONTEXTS; title: Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts; title: Pasts, Pioneers, Politics; title: Principles of Applying Performance; title: PART II: PRACTICES; title: Performing Lives; title: Placing Performance; title: Digital Transportations; title: PART III: PARTICIPATION; title: Unhappy Relations: Critiques of Collaboration; title: Theme Park Hells: Incarcerations; title: Participant Centred Pedagaogy and the Affective Learning Environment: LIFT 2011; title: A Taste of Heaven: (Syn) aesthetics and Participatory Visceral Performance; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.