Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138805513 ISBN 13: 9781138805514

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological methodology and against performance as a field of study and category of artistic production, the volume provides both an introduction to core thinkers and an expansion on their ideas in a wide range of case studies. Whether addressing the use of dead animals in performance, actor training, the legal implications of thinking phenomenologically about how we walk, or the intertwining of digital and analog perception, each chapter explores a world comprised of embodied action and thought. The established and emerging scholars contributing to the volume develop insights central to the phenomenological tradition while expanding on the work of contemporary theorists and performers. In asking why performance and phenomenology belong in conversation together, the book suggests how they can transform each other in the process and what is at stake in this transformation.

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About the Author

Maaike Bleeker is Professor of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Jon Foley Sherman is an independent scholar and an award-winning actor and deviser.

Eirini Nedelkopoulou is Lecturer in Theatre at York St John University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138805513
• ISBN 13: 9781138805514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Bleeker Maaike, Foley Sherman Jon, Nedelkopoulou Eirini