Readings in performance and ecology / edited by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arons, Wendy, 1964-

May, Theresa J.

Series:

What is theatre?

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Environmental protection in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"Readings in Performance and Ecology is a ground-breaking collection of essays focusing on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world; how performance helps us understand the way our bodies are integrally connected to the land; how environmentalists use performance as a form of protest; how performance illuminates our relationships with animals as autonomous creatures and artistic symbols; and how performance can help humans re-define our place in the larger ecological community"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Ecocriticism and Dramatic Literature

1 Theater, Environment, and the Thirties / Barry Witham Witham, Barry 13

2 Bringing Blood to Ghosts: English Canadian Drama and the Ecopolitics of Place / Nelson Gray Gray, Nelson 23

3 Other Others: Dramatis Animalia in Some Alternative American Drama / Robert Baker-White Baker-White, Robert 33

II Animals and/in Performance

4 The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species / Una Chaudhuri Chaudhuri, Una 45

5 Dancing with Monkeys? On Performance Commons and Scientific Experiments / Baz Kershaw Kershaw, Baz 59

6 Everything a la Giraffe: Science, Performance, and a Spectacular Body in Nineteenth-Century Vienna / Derek Lee Barton Barton, Derek Lee 77

III Theorizing Ecoperformance

7 Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance / Bruce McConacbie McConacbie, Bruce 91

8 Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic / Kathleen M. Gough Gough, Kathleen M. 101

9 Stillness in Nature: Eeo Stubblefield's Still Dance with / Anna Halprin Halprin, Anna, Arden Thomas Thomas, Arden 113

IV Ecoactivism and Performance

10 British Alternative Companies and Antinuclear Plays: Eco-conscious Theater in Thatcher's Britain / Sara Freeman Freeman, Sara 127

11 Bikes, Choices, Action! Embodied Performances of Sustainability by a Traveling Theater Group / Meg O'Shea O'Shea, Meg 137

12 Earth First! s "Crack the Dam" and the Aesthetics of Ecoactivist Performance / Sarah Ann Standing Standing, Sarah Ann 147

V Case Studies in Green Theater

13 Ecodirecting Canonical Plays / Downing Cless Cless, Downing 159

14 Devising Green Piece: A Holistic Pedagogy for Artists and Educators / Anne Justine D'Zmura D'Zmura, Anne Justine 169

15 Sound Ecology in the Woods: Red Riding Hood Takes an Audio Walk / Cornelia Hoogland Hoogland, Cornelia 181

16 The Labor of Greening Love's Labour's Lost / Justin A. Miller Miller, Justin A. 191

17 Theatrical Production's Carbon Footprint / Ian Garrett Garrett, Ian 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230337282

0230337287

OCLC:

755699215

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