Performance Research: On Place: Volume 3 Issue 2 (Performance Research , Vol 3, No 2) - Softcover

9780415182027: Performance Research: On Place: Volume 3 Issue 2 (Performance Research , Vol 3, No 2)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415182026 ISBN 13: 9780415182027

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

This book debates questions of place and praxis. How are geographical, cultural and artistic identities created and sustained with/in different places? How have colonial pasts, and the ways they mark and are mapped in the present, affected the performances produced there? In Australia, for example, performance owes much to the colonial past and present: to a psychology of edges, of enforced comings and goings and to a history of repression and genocide. How are such aspects expressed in performance practices?

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Synopsis

How does place affect performance praxis? How are geographical, cultural and artistic identities created and sustained within different places? This book includes contributions from practitioners and theorists for whom "place" informs praxis: in theatre, dance, live art, site-specific work, installation, performance photography.

About the Author

David Williams is an editorial writer for The Japan Times and a regular commentator on Japanese affairs for The Los Angeles Times. He has taught Japanese Government at Oxford University.

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