Repetition in performance : returns and invisible forces / Eirini Kartsaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kartsaki, Eirini, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Repetition (Aesthetics).

Performing arts--Philosophy.

Performing arts.

Repetition (Philosophy).

Theater and philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre, Haranczak/Navarre and Marco Berrettini. It addresses repetition in relation to processes of desire and draws attention to the forces that repetition captures and makes visible. What is it in performances of repetition that persuades us to return to them again and again? How might we unpack their complexities and come to terms with their demands upon us? While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experience of theatre in memory and writing--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Stein, Beckett, Rainer, and Brown

3. After Barthes

4. After Stein

5. Performance Returns

6. After Lacan

7. Conclusion: Filling the Gaps

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164) and index.

ISBN:

1137430532

9781137430533

OCLC:

975132057