Re-framing the theatrical : interdisciplinary landscapes for performance / Alison Oddey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oddey, Alison, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Philosophy.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Alison Oddey takes us on a spectator's journey, engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization. She examines how these cross-art forms provoke a solo spectator-protagonist, and how the work becomes meditative and spiritual. In questioning the role of the spectator and the director, Oddey considers how a re-thinking and reclaiming of physical and artistic forms has contributed to a new kind of making theatre-art, searching for space and contemplation in a hectic twenty-first-century landscape. Highlighting the work of director Deborah Warner and of artists Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey and Graeme Miller, Oddey provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, in an exciting and innovative analysis of the many changes taking place in contemporary performance.

Contents:

1 Re-Framing 1

2 Director-Creator-Collaborator: Devising and Technology 22

3 'It's About Cross-Over': Cross-Art Performance 42

4 Re-thinking the Theatrical Frame: The Opera Director, Video Artist, and Visual Artists 60

5 Landscapes for Performance: The Geographies of Deborah Warner 86

6 Angels, Soul and Rebirth 105

7 Narratives of the City, Interpretations of Director, Reflections of Spectator 133

8 The Art of Sound: Auditory Directions 162

9 Performing Silence 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.

ISBN:

0230524656

9780230524651

OCLC:

73744070

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