ABSTRACT
This chapter will start by assuming that there is something particular, often special, about a live event, something that most people would acknowledge without necessarily knowing or understanding exactly what the essence of this particularity is. As such, the primary concern here will not be the nowness of the ‘now’ so frequently conceived as the central pillar of the live event but rather, the pre-history and post-history of the event as embodied in the regimes of practise and rehearsal necessary to preserve (re-originate) the live event.
