Routledge Companion to Performance and Technology / edited by Maaike Bleeker, Norah Zuniga Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bleeker, Maaike.

Contributor:

Bleeker, Maaike

Shaw, Norah Zuňiga

Series:

Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (786 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

Technology is now integral to theater, dance, and performance--not just a tool but part of our cultural ecology. These practices reflect broader technoscientific developments while offering creative interventions. This book examines diverse performances and technologies without imposing rigid categories.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

All Contributor Bios

Introduction

Part 1 Transhistorical Perspectives

1 Postdigital Performance

2 Texts and Contexts

3 Intermediality in Theatre and Performance: Definitions, Perceptions and Medial Relationships

4 László Moholy-Nagy's "Theatre of Totality": A Precursor to Digital Performance

5 The Digital Double

6 The Co-Evolution of Performance and Technology

7 Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance

8 Robots on Stage in Contemporary Performance

9 On Algorithmic Theater

10 Proscenium as Temporary Shelter: Faustin Linyekula's more more more … future

11 Performing "Art and Technology" in Cold War America

12 Performance after Automation

Part 2 Creative Transformations

13 Dancing and Cameras

14 Choreographing Technology

15 Animate: XR, Bodies, and the Future of the Stage

16 Body and Shadow: Contingent Transformations of Light on Stage

17 On the Notion of Verticality in Dramaturgy

18 Invisible Performers: Sonic Ghosts, an Acousdramatic Approach, and the Transformative Potential of Digital Audio Technology in Theater

19 Feminist Unboxing: A Critical Approach toward Incorporating Digital Technologies into Creative and Scholarly Work

20 Güícharo Robots and the Complexities of Sense-Making in Performance and Technology

21 The Non-Linearity of Technical Production in the Performing Arts

22 Headphone Theater and the Performance of Perception

23 Choreoauratic Frequencies: Tuning in to Headphonic Encounters from Aotearoa

24 The Spectatorial Body in Multimedia Performance: The London International Festival of Theatre (Lift) 2010

25 But How Will They Know It's Live?: Anonymous Ensemble's Virtual Performances.

26 The Digital Double as a Choreographic Technique: The Splitting Magic on Screens

27 Dramaturgy of Technological Absence: Tim Crouch's Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel

Part 3 (Re)conceptualizations

28 The Cyborg-Apparatus Continuum. Or, How the Question Concerning Technology Has Twisted and Turned

29 Access, Performance, Technology: Engaging with the Omissions of a Past Creative Self

30 Utterances of Global Futurisms

31 Performing Telepresence: Technology and Coloniality in Choy Ka Fai's Postcolonial Spirits (2021)

32 The Ear That Speaks

33 Critical Techno-Dramaturgy: Mobilizing Embodied Perception of the Human-Technology Relationship in Performance

34 The Theatricality of Mindar, Kō-dai-ji Temple's Android Buddhist Priest

35 Technologies of Community: Digital Portraits in Black Dance

36 Cultural Dreams of Datafied Bodies: Motion Capture as a Technological Imaginary

37 "In the Half-Light": Phenomenological Approaches to Complex Technological Systems

38 Landing and Dispersing at the Same Time: Embodied Awareness in Virtual and Physical Spaces

Part 4 Sociotechnical and Political Entanglements

39 Attending to the Dandelions: Social Movement Building through Participatory Arts Practice

40 Black Haptics

41 Performance as an Act of Generosity: Sharing Aboriginal Stories through Drone Dramaturgy in Moombaki

42 Technopoetics of Togetherness: Live Performance before the End of the World

43 The Politics of Performance and Technology in South Africa

44 Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance

45 Blast Theory's Karen: Reharnessing the New Digital Specificities of a Hyperindustrial World

46 A Bed of One's Own: (In)Voluntary Choices of Disengagement in Digital Performance Environments

47 The Sublime Grandeur of Inconsequential Death.

Part 5 Mediated Presences and Afterlives

48 Performing Counterhistory: The Ghostly Archives of Summer of Soul

49 Archives of Care

50 Critical Multimedia Editions for Theater Research

51 Evolving Practices of Choreographic Transmission for the Screen and Beyond

52 Playing at Performance: Dance Games and Intimate Media

53 Steps

54 Just Moves?: Motion Extraction, Machine Learning, and the Generative Derivative in Dance

55 TikTok and Short-Form Screendance Before and After COVID

56 Data Drama: How Machine Audiences Reprogram Theater

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-051227-5

1-003-48269-4

OCLC:

1591761411