Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

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Springer, Jul 6, 2012 - Performing Arts - 288 pages
This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
 

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Contents

Critical and Theoretical Contexts
3
2 Pasts Pioneers Politics
15
3 Performing Lives
44
4 Placing Performance
94
5 Digital Transportations
159
6 Participatory SynAesthetics
185
Affective Practice
238
Notes
256
Bibliography
263
Index
279
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About the author (2012)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleApplying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice
AuthorN. Shaughnessy
Editionillustrated
PublisherSpringer, 2012
ISBN1137033649, 9781137033642
Length288 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Performing Arts / Dance / Classical & Ballet
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Theater / General
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
  
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