Making A Performance: Devising Histories And Contemporary Practices (SC, 2008)

Format: Softcover ISBN: 9780415286534 Author: Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 2008 Number of Pages / Size: 215 Language: English Weight (gm): 290 ---------- Book Condition / Grade: VG ---------- Description: Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages.Designed to be accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts and ideas that have shaped some of the most vibrant and experimental practices in contemporary performance.

Making A Performance: Devising Histories And Contemporary Practices (SC, 2008)

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 9780415286534

Author: Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: 2008

Number of Pages / Size: 215

Language: English

Weight (gm): 290

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Book Condition / Grade: VG

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Description: Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.

This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the past. It looks to companies as diverse as Australia's Legs on the Wall, Britain's Forced Entertainment and the USA-based Goat Island to show how contemporary practitioners challenge orthodoxies to develop new theatrical languages.

Designed to be accessible to both scholars and practitioners, this study offers clear, practical examples of concepts and ideas that have shaped some of the most vibrant and experimental practices in contemporary performance.

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