The performances of sacred places : crossing, breathing, resisting / edited by Silvia Battista.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Battista, Silvia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2021]

Summary:

Looks at the value, function and role that performance plays in the constitution and activation of special, sacred places. Brings together artistic, theatrical, religious and activist practices with the objective of studying the role that they have in transforming, maintaining, contesting and activating the sacredness of locations. 37 b/w illus.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

The Performances of Sacred Places Crossing, Breathing, Resisting

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The Performances of Sacred Places: An Introduction

Clarifying biases

Introducing questions and contexts

Performance studies

Contextualizing the sacred

Understanding performativity

Summarizing sections and chapters

Notes

References

Part 1 Crossing

1 A Place That Stands Apart: Emplacing, Re-Imaging and Transforming Life-Events through Walking-Performance in Rural Landscapes

Introduction

Fissure

The Gathering/Yr Helfa

Warnscale: A Land Mark Walk Reflecting on In/Fertility and Childlessness

Seven 'scenographic' principles for creating walking-performances in rural landscapes

Principle 1: 'Being located' - site, subject and participant specificity

Principle 2: 'Staying with the trouble' - auto/biography

Principle 3: Materials of the site and landscape and environmental forces as metaphor (for self)

Principle 4: Composing and moving through constantly changing scenes and topographies

Principle 5: Walking beyond knowledge and beating new tracks

Principle 6: Close-up looking and alternative/shifting perspectives

Principle 7: 'Moments of being' - wonderment and defamiliarization

2 Bordering the Sacred: The Labyrinth as Non-Site

Introduction: Entering the labyrinth

The double path

The sacred path: Walking the labyrinth

Placing the labyrinth

The substitute pilgrimage

Chemin de Jerusalem: The Chartres narratives

Veriditas and the modern labyrinth movement

Two non-trips to the sacred

Attention and intention

The journey in

Return and reflection

Leaving the labyrinth

3 In Peril and Pilgrimage: Exploring the Experience of Suffering in Journeys Endured.

Notes

Part 2 Breathing

4 Acting Atmospheres: The Theatre Laboratory and the Numinous

Preamble about the importance of atmosphere in laboratory work

Atmosphere and the space as living presence

Atmosphere in acting technique

My experience in the laboratory of Vassiliev: How to do without doing?

5 Holding Out: The Sacred Space of Suspense and Sustainable Ethics

Why, where, when, how, what for?

At the limits of existence

Sacred thresholds

For an ethics of suspense

6 The Introspective Theatre of Spirits Read Foucault: The Digital Space, the Inner Gaze and a Sacred Landscape

Assumptions and objectives

Contextualization

ACT I: The Threshold

The letter

ACT II and ACT III: The Experience and The Narration

Conclusion

Part 3 Resisting

7 Performing on the Tightrope:: Sacred Place, Embodied Knowledge and the Conflicted History of Colonial Modernity in the Welsh

Contexts

Places

Practice as research with Khasi and Welsh performers

8 Performing Memorials as Intervening Grounds

Performance and grounds

Memorial grounds

Identifying grounds

Performing grounds

9 Sacred Space and Occupation as Protest: Jonathan Z. Smith and Occupy Wall Street

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78938-389-7

1-78938-388-9

OCLC:

1240580803