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Performing Animality

Animals in Performance Practices

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Lourdes Orozco

    1. Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK

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  2. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck

    1. Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Roehampton, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lourdes Orozco, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
      Pages 1-15

  3. Setting the Stage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. From Homo Performans to Interspecies Collaboration

      • Laura Cull
      Pages 19-36

  4. Bulls, Dogs, Pigs, Bears and Horses: Animals in Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. The Art of Fierceness

      • Garry Marvin
      Pages 39-56

    3. ‘Genus Porcus Sophisticus’

      • Monica Mattfeld
      Pages 57-76

    4. ‘A Very Good Act for an Unimportant Place’

      • Catherine Young
      Pages 77-96

    5. Acrobatic Circus Horses

      • Peta Tait
      Pages 97-113

  5. ‘Performing’ Animals and ‘Theatres of Species’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance

      • Kim Marra
      Pages 117-134

    3. Embattled Animals in a Theatre of Species

      • Una Chaudhuri
      Pages 135-149

    4. Animal Pasts and Presents

      • Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
      Pages 150-167

    5. Effacing the Human

      • Carrie Rohman
      Pages 168-186

  6. Looking at/Loving with Animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. There and Not There

      • Lourdes Orozco
      Pages 189-203

    3. It’s Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image

      • Holly Hughes
      Pages 204-217

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 218-225
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About this book

Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers a historical and theoretical exploration of animal presence in performance by looking at the concept of animality and how it has developed in theatre and performance practices from the eighteenth century to today. Furthermore, it points to shifts in political, cultural, and ethical animal-human relations emerging within the context of animality and performance.

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'Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices is an important and timely must-have book that is among the first to foreground the animal as an increasingly urgent matter for Performance Studies. It is also the first to gather into one volume the particular perspectives of theatre and performance scholars as innovative contributions to the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies. The essays, elegantly assembled by editors Parker-Starbuck and Orozco from both established and emerging scholars, are fresh, bold, and readable. This book will be invaluable to both students and scholars in the field of theatre and performance studies, and to anyone interested in the provocations and interventions performance brings to Animal Studies.' - Maurya Wickstrom, The City University of New York, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK

    Lourdes Orozco

  • Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance, University of Roehampton, UK

    Jennifer Parker-Starbuck

About the editors

Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UK Holly Hughes, University of Michigan, USA Kim Marra, University of Iowa, USA Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UK Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent, UK Lourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UK Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, University of Roehampton, UK Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia Catherine Young, City University of New York, USA

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