Analysing performance

Name: Analysing performance
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SKU: 9780719042508
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A critical reader

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Analysing Performance is a comprehensive collection of essays by internationally recognised contributors, exploring vital aspects of the performing arts. The book examines the theory and practice of contemporary performance work across dance, drama, music, and video, reflecting the blurred boundaries in today's multimedia environment. It addresses diverse perspectives including postmodernist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and multicultural readings, and considers complex topics such as the representation of AIDS and the embodiment in contemporary dance.
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This title is ideal for students and teachers of performing arts, especially those interested in contemporary performance theory and cross-disciplinary approaches.

Each chapter in this critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos using contemporary critical theories.

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Analysing Performance is a wide-ranging collection of essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts. Each essay tackles the theory and practice of contemporary performance work, enabling students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music, and videos.

The commitment to cross-disciplinary approaches mirrors the breakdown of boundaries between these art forms in today's multi-media world. How do postmodernist, feminist or psychoanalytic readings construct performance worlds? What is the impact of multiculturalism on the language of theatre? What are the dynamics between AIDS, representation, and live art? How does one talk about "the body" in contemporary dance forms?

Contributors include: Elizabeth Wright on psychoanalysis, Baz Kershaw on the politics of performance, Jatinda Verma on multiculturalism, E. Ann Kaplan on MTV and video, Lizbeth Goodman on feminism and AIDS, and Stephen Connor on postmodernism.

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Theatre Journal praises the book for offering "a wonderful panoply of theory and criticism, as well as exposure to important English language theatre artists, companies and productions."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719042508

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 February 1996

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Patrick Campbell
Edited by Patrick Campbell

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 376g

Pages: 308

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Patrick Campbell is Principal Lecturer in English and Leader of the MA in Performing Arts at Middlesex University