Activating the inanimate : visual vocabularies of performance practice / edited by Celia Morgan and Filipa Malva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Celia, editor.

Malva, Filipa, editor.

Series:

Critical issue.

Critical Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013.The dynamic exchange of perspectives that constituted the 2nd Global Conference of Performance: Visual Aspects of Performance Practice demonstrated that the foundational concept of the project is a vibrant platform for sharing and extending ideas within all aspects of.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Celia Morgan and Filipa Malva

Symbolic Language and the Mythical Middle Ground / Celia Morgan

Looking at Postmodern Performances of Canonical Plays / Bilha Blum

The Full and the Void in the Theatre of Robert Wilson / Marcelo de Andrade Pereira

The Power of Images in Performance: Josef Svoboda’s Scenography for Intolleranza 1960 at Boston Opera Company / Barbora Příhodová

Loïe Fuller and her Legacy: The Visual and the Virtual / Liora Malka Yellin

Little Cinderella, Big Cinderella: Scenography as Performance / Filipa Malva

Visionary Voice / Silent Clown / Andrew Cope

Bioscenography: Towards the Scenography of Non-Representation / Parjad Sharifi

From Verbal to Visual: References to Clothes in Shakespeare’s Plays as Metaphor, Symbol and Concept for Costume Design / Pnina Black Porter

Emotion and Memory: Clothing the Body as Performance / Jessica Bugg

Dance Costumes on Display: Reflections and Practice / Sofia Pantouvaki

Addressing the Absent: Drawing and Scenography / Kate Burnett

The Explanatory Frame / Myer Taub

Burning Man: Scenography for the Masses / Virginia L. Vogel

Performance Art as Intervention in Everyday Life: Participation, the Public Sphere and the Production of Meaning / Alexandra Antoniadou

Where is the Performance? What has Become of It? / Myfanwyn Ryan

Old Arts in New Media: Qualified Ontologies of ‘Live’ in the Age of Media Casting / Adele Anderson

‘Seed of the Image’: Image Metaphor as a Strategy of Creative Process and Ideological Resistance / Chee-Keng Lee

Making from Scratch: A Transdisciplinary Research into the Historical and Social Production of Subjectivity / Haya Cohen

Dancing Clowns and Desert Dunes: Challenging Traditional Imagery in Flamenco-Fusion / Idit Suslik

Distances in Time and Space: Fictional Medieval Constructs of the Indian Other in the Colonial Imaginary / Sarah Bonnie.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84888-121-5

OCLC:

842137694

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881211 DOI