Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance - Softcover

Mock, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841500100 ISBN 13: 9781841500102

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Synopsis

Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels between areas of performance that are rarely, if ever, compared. They present the basis for an overall theory of how 'conception', 'development', 'presentation' and 'reception' are fused together to make up the overall 'performance'. This study investigates the relationship between the process of creating performance and spectator response, and how this exchange is embedded into the product itself. The authors draw on theoretical approaches from a range of sources, and examine the work of contemporary dramatists, choreographers, poets and performers including: - Sarah Kane - Iain Baxter - Yolande Snaith - Slobodan Snajder - Phylis Nagy - Steve Benson - David Fielding - David Antin - Bette Midler - Karen Malpede - Stephen Daldry - Mai Lanfang Its construction of a new, wide-ranging approach to performance research makes this book a valuable resource for the student as well as the broader academic community. It has application both as a textbook and for supplementary research on drama courses nationwide.

About this title

About the Author:

Roberta Mock is professor of performance studies at the University of Plymouth. She is the editor of the anthologies Walking, Writing & Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith and Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance, also published by Intellect.

Synopsis:

This volume investigates the relationship between the process of creating performance and spectator responses, and how this exchange is embedded into the product itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1841500100
• ISBN 13: 9781841500102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140