Risk, participation, and performance practice : critical vulnerabilities in a precarious world / Alice O'Grady, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Grady, Alice R., 1934- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Plots, themes, etc.

Performing arts.

Risk-taking (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xxiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that promote, encourage and embrace risky encounters in a variety of forms. The collection brings together established voices on performance and risk research and draws them into conversation with next generation academic-practitioners in a dynamic reappraisal of what it means to risk oneself through the act of making and participating in performance practice. It takes into account the work of other performance scholars for whom risk and precarity are central concerns, but seeks to move the debate forwards in response to a rapidly changing world where risk is higher on the political, economic and cultural agenda than ever before.

Contents:

Introduction : Risky aesthetics, critical vulnerabilities, and edgeplay : tactical performances of the unknown / Alice O'Grady

Theatre in the age of uncertainty : memory, technology, and risk in Simon McBurney's The encounter and Robert Lepage's 887 / Lourdes Orozco

Putting prejudices on the spot and in the spotlight : the risks of politically motivated public space performance practices / Bree Hadley

The drama spiral : a decision-making model for safe, ethical, and flexible practice when incorporating personal stories in applied theatre and performance / Clark Baim

Dance with a stranger : Torque Show's Intimacy (2014) and the experience of vulnerability in performance and spectatorship / Matt Hargrave

Risking intimacy : strategies of vulnerability in Vertical City's All good things and Trace / Bruce Barton and Pil Hansen

Collect yourselves! : risk, intimacy, and dissonance in intermedial performance / Jocelyn Spence, Stuart Andrews and David Frohlich

At the risk of being sincere : participation and delegation in South African contemporary live art / Rat Western

Upon awakening : addiction, performance, and aesthetics of authenticity / Zoe Zontou

Risk in theatrical performances in the city : creating impact and identities / André Carreira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319632414

3319632418

OCLC:

992746552