BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move,
challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and
performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous
interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often with new
technologies in cutting-edge venues, we insist on the buzz of ideas,
on philosophy and poetry, using words and images, movement and
stillness, voices and bodies, through which they aim to move audiences
emotionally and spiritually. Organized in a highly visual design, this
volume is both a history and a workbook with selections of scripts and
archival material from 30 years of making devised theatre and
performance in the UK and internationally, plus texts by
collaborators, arts professionals and scholars exploring the
company’s collaborative working method, contextualizing it in the
wider performance ecology and culture. Intended as an inspiration to
emerging artists, the volume covers key questions for any maker of
contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken
word, the use of new technologies and multi-media, the role of
original music and soundscapes, the differences between work presented
in a theatre or gallery or sited in non-theatrical places, the
persistence of theatre as an art-form in an increasingly digital
culture.
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Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781835950722
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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