Applying Performance

NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. Her teaching and research specialisms are contemporary performance, applied theatre, autobiography and performance theory. Previous publications include essays on gender and theatre, autobiographical drama and applied theatre as well as a book on Gertrude Stein. She is Co-Director of Kent University's Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and leads the AHRC funded research project Imagining Autism.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Applying Performance PART I: HISTORIES & CONTEXTS Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts Pasts, Pioneers, Politics Principles of Applying Performance PART II: PRACTICES Performing Lives Placing Performance Digital Transportations PART III: PARTICIPATION Unhappy Relations: Critiques of Collaboration Theme Park Hells: Incarcerations Participant Centred Pedagogy and the Affective Learning Environment: LIFT 2011 A Taste of Heaven: (Syn)aesthetics and Participatory Visceral Performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index