Immersive Theatres (eBook, PDF)

Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance
Redaktion: Machon, Josephine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes original interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137019851
• Artikelnr.: 47896534

Autorenporträt

Josephine Machon is Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Performance Practice at Middlesex University, London, UK. She is the author of (Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance (2009, 2011). Josephine is also the co-editor of Performance and Technology (2006), Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies (2010) and Identity, Performance and Technology (2012) and joint editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Performance and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contributing Artists and their Practice
Introduction: Immersive Theatres Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary
Performance
PART I
1. Definitions and Details
2. Features & Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity
3. Immersive Perspectives
PART II
4. Introduction: Immersion, intimacy and Immediacy in Practice
5. Michael Morris of Artangel
6. Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk
7. Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre
8. Lundahl & Seitl
9. Silvia Mercuriali
10. Tassos Stevens of Coney
11. Sam Holdsworth of Nimble Fish
12. Punchdrunk Enrichment
13. Louise Ann Wilson
14. Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks
15. Adrian Howells
16. Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak
17. Conclusion: Immersive Theatres
Recommended Reading and Research
Bibliography
Index.