Performance Making - Anna Furse

Performance Making

a pedagogy for precarious times

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Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-73017-2 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.
Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times provides insight into the impact the artform has had across the creative sector and argues for its defence in higher education today.

Drawing on over 40+ years’ worth of experience as artist and academic, Anna Furse interrogates the ways in which the practice of Performance is truly interdisciplinary, offering a specific creative and critical practice approach. Chapters address the neo-liberal turn and its effect on culture; the history of the emergence of the genre within Performance Studies; the underlying political and cultural message of Performance as independent and necessary; wider philosophical and critical theoretical thinking that can support innovation within the field; and the key principles in the creation of live work such as space, site, scenography, the body, collaboration, and composition. Each chapter includes an essay, case studies, and exercises, empowering students to apply critical thinking to their own work.

Focusing on developing creative-critical methodologies in Performance Making at postgraduate level for international cohorts, this textbook will equip students, instructors, and practitioners to contextualise and enrich their Performance practice and leadership.

Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981–1986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of New Dance Magazine, and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the MA in Performance Making for 20 years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Among her many publications are Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2011), and Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria (2021).

PREFACE Eating Shoes - Herzog’s call

INTRODUCTION Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industry

CHAPTER 1 Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructions

CHAPTER 2 Body - lived experience, moving, presence

CHAPTER 3 Scenography - writing in space, materiality, aura

CHAPTER 4 Site -city, drifting, transgression

CHAPTER 5 Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaboration

CHAPTER 6 Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-forming

CHAPTER 7 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exit

APPENDIX Notes on contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 15 Halftones, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 370 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-032-73017-X / 103273017X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-73017-2 / 9781032730172
Zustand Neuware
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