Field Andy
Field Andy - Performance In An Age Of Precarity 40 Reflections - Paperback
Field Andy - Performance In An Age Of Precarity 40 Reflections - Paperback
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Description: " This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I read it I feel like I am constantly on the joyful edge of falling in love trying so hard to keep hold of the feelings evoked. A very precious book in our precarious times." Vicky Featherstone An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics producers dramaturgs makers archivists and more. Together the 40 essays sketch a map of the contemporary performance landscape from avant - garde dance to live art to independent theatre tracing the contours of its themes aims desires and relationship to the wider worlds of mainstream theatre art and politics. Each essay focuses on a particular artist and these include Bryony Kimmings Dickie Beau Forced Entertainment Scottee Selina Thompson Tania El Khoury and Uninvited Guests. Reflecting the radical nature of the work considered the authors attempt to find a new vocabulary and a non - conventional way of considering live performance in these essays. As both a fresh survey of contemporary performance and an exploration of how to think and write about upstream and avant - garde work this book should be an essential resource for students artists and audiences as well as an accessible entry point for anyone curious to know about the beautiful and strange things happening beyond the UK's theatrical mainstream.
Title: Performance In An Age Of Precarity 40 Reflections
Author(s): Field Andy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350190641
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 2/11/2021
Category: Theatre Studies
Description: " This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I read it I feel like I am constantly on the joyful edge of falling in love trying so hard to keep hold of the feelings evoked. A very precious book in our precarious times." Vicky Featherstone An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics producers dramaturgs makers archivists and more. Together the 40 essays sketch a map of the contemporary performance landscape from avant - garde dance to live art to independent theatre tracing the contours of its themes aims desires and relationship to the wider worlds of mainstream theatre art and politics. Each essay focuses on a particular artist and these include Bryony Kimmings Dickie Beau Forced Entertainment Scottee Selina Thompson Tania El Khoury and Uninvited Guests. Reflecting the radical nature of the work considered the authors attempt to find a new vocabulary and a non - conventional way of considering live performance in these essays. As both a fresh survey of contemporary performance and an exploration of how to think and write about upstream and avant - garde work this book should be an essential resource for students artists and audiences as well as an accessible entry point for anyone curious to know about the beautiful and strange things happening beyond the UK's theatrical mainstream.
Title: Performance In An Age Of Precarity 40 Reflections
Author(s): Field Andy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781350190641
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 2/11/2021
Category: Theatre Studies
