Performing processes / editor Roberta Mock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mock, Roberta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Performing processes : creating live performance

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Portland, Oregon : Intellect, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely, if ever, compared. They present the basis for an overall theory of how 'conception', 'development', 'presentation' and 'reception' are fused together to make up the overall 'performance'. This study investigates the relationship between the process o

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Desperate Acts: The Role of the Audience in the Process of Playwriting; 2 Poetry and Performance; 3 Minor Asides of Performance in Some Works of Iain Baxter and the N.E. Thing Company: Beginnings to 1970; 4 Collaborative Practice and the Phenomenal Dancer: Yolande Snaith's Theatredance; 5 Re-Cognizing Corporeality; 6 Conventionalization: the Soul of Jingju; 7 "Your Mother is Up Here Working!": Bette Midler, the Continental Baths, and the Mainstreaming of Gay Male Sensibility; 8 The Moebius Strip: Act and Imitation in English Pantomime Performance

9 Reception of the Image10 Theatre of Witness: Passage into a New Millennium; Contributor Biographies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610476473

9781280476471

1280476478

9781841508641

1841508640

OCLC:

241061122