Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice
Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World
Editors: O'Grady, Alice (Ed.)
Free Preview- Brings together a range of established contributors on performance and risk research
- Interrogates how risk is presented to new audiences in a variety of encounters
- Asks who and what is at risk in performance work that leaves things to chance
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Alice O’Grady is Professor in Applied Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. With a background in drama education, her research is focused on examining the ways in which performance, participation and play activate social agency and engagement across a diverse range of contexts.
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“This is a wide-reaching and timely volume with a firm focus on twenty-first century performance. Traversing applied, socially-engaged and experimental practices, and featuring a broad range of perspectives by theorists and practising scholars, it marks out unique opportunities at the disposal of theatre and performance makers to explore vulnerability and precarity in a century already plagued by catastrophe.” (Adam Alston, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Surrey, UK)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Risky Aesthetics, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Edgeplay: Tactical Performances of the Unknown
Pages 1-29
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Theatre in the Age of Uncertainty: Memory, Technology, and Risk in Simon McBurney’s The Encounter and Robert Lepage’s 887
Pages 33-55
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Putting Prejudices on the Spot and in the Spotlight: The Risks of Politically Motivated Public Space Performance Practices
Pages 57-78
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The Drama Spiral: A Decision-Making Model for Safe, Ethical, and Flexible Practice when Incorporating Personal Stories in Applied Theatre and Performance
Pages 79-109
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Dance with a Stranger: Torque Show’s Intimacy (2014) and the Experience of Vulnerability in Performance and Spectatorship
Pages 113-130
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice
- Book Subtitle
- Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World
- Editors
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- Alice O'Grady
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-63242-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-63242-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-63241-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87506-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 264
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations
- Topics
