The Senses in Performance

ISBN-13: 9780415281867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str.

Sally Banes; Andre Lepecki

Opis

An edited collection of essays on the role of the senses in performance. Sight is the only sense to have been investigated in any great depth in relation to performance so far. This volume is spearheading a growing movement to start examining the other senses and their role in performance. The book covers a lot of ground: all the sense are discussed in relation to Western and non-Western performance, including performance art, opera, dance and drama.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Performance of the Senses Part I: Theory and Practice 2. Rasaesthetics 3. Olfactory Performances 4. Unearthing Kinesthesia 5. Senses and Silence in Actor Training and Performance 6. Making Sense of Food in Performance Part II: History 7. Edible Performance 8. Incense & Decadents 9. Touching Realism Part III: Contemporary Performance 10. Guiding Somatic Responses Within Performative Structures 11. Containment + Contamination 12. Seeing Nothing: Now Hear This... 13. A Doubly "Environmental" Sensorium 14. Tangible Acts Part IV: Case Studies 15. Touching the Sun on the Reservation 16. Performers, Spectators, Cannibals. Making Sense of Theatrical Consumption. 17. Indonesian Theatre and Its Double 18. Artaud’s Anatomy

O autorze

Banes, Sally; Lepecki, Andre