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Applying performance : live art, socially engaged theatre and affective practice / Nicola Shaughnessy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.Description: xxi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1137525851
  • 9781137525857
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.01 SHA
Contents:
Setting the scene: critical and theoretical contexts -- Pasts, pioneers, politics. Applying performance : principles and a cognitive paradigm of practice -- Performing lives. Autobiography and applied performance ; Acts of recall : memory, identity and post-traumatic performance ; Remembered lives and the continuous present : applied performance and dementia ; Between lives : intergenerational performance ; Making it real through applying performance -- Placing performance. Placing applied performance ; Stan\'s Cafe : Plague nation/Of all the people in all the world ; Remaking museum space : reckless sleepers\' Creating the past ; Beyond site : Accidental Collective\'s Pebbles to the pier -- Digital transportations -- Participatory (Syn)aesthetics. Unhappy relations : critiques of collaboration ; Theme park hells : incarcerations ; Participant centred pedagogy and the affective learning environment : LIFT 2011 ; A taste of heaven : (syn)aesthetics and participatory visceral performance ; \'Something moves\' (syn)aesthetics, rasaesthetics and the performance of autism -- Conclusion: Affective practice.
Summary: This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged-- Provided by publisher.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 792.01 SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100622845

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This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.

Setting the scene: critical and theoretical contexts -- Pasts, pioneers, politics. Applying performance : principles and a cognitive paradigm of practice -- Performing lives. Autobiography and applied performance ; Acts of recall : memory, identity and post-traumatic performance ; Remembered lives and the continuous present : applied performance and dementia ; Between lives : intergenerational performance ; Making it real through applying performance -- Placing performance. Placing applied performance ; Stan\'s Cafe : Plague nation/Of all the people in all the world ; Remaking museum space : reckless sleepers\' Creating the past ; Beyond site : Accidental Collective\'s Pebbles to the pier -- Digital transportations -- Participatory (Syn)aesthetics. Unhappy relations : critiques of collaboration ; Theme park hells : incarcerations ; Participant centred pedagogy and the affective learning environment : LIFT 2011 ; A taste of heaven : (syn)aesthetics and participatory visceral performance ; \'Something moves\' (syn)aesthetics, rasaesthetics and the performance of autism -- Conclusion: Affective practice.

This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged-- Provided by publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. Her teaching and research specialisms are contemporary performance, applied theatre, autobiography and performance theory. Previous publications include essays on gender and theatre, autobiographical drama and applied theatre as well as a book on Gertrude Stein. She is Co-Director of Kent University's Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and leads the AHRC funded research project Imagining Autism.

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