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      Performance in the Twenty-First Century
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      Performance in the Twenty-First Century

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      Theatres of Engagement

      Performance in the Twenty-First Century

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      Performance in the Twenty-First Century book

      Theatres of Engagement
      ByAndy Lavender
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 7 June 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203128176
      Pages 248
      eBook ISBN 9780203128176
      Subjects Arts
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      Lavender, A. (2016). Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203128176

      ABSTRACT

      Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the ‘classic’ postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency, performance in the twenty-first century engages more overtly with meaning, politics and society. It involves a newly pronounced form of personal experience, often implicating the body and/or one’s sense of self.

      This volume examines a range of performance events, including work by both emergent and internationally significant companies and artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Blast Theory, dreamthinkspeak, Zecora Ura, Punchdrunk, Ontroerend Goed, Kris Verdonck, Dries Verhoeven, Rabih Mroué, Derren Brown and David Blaine. It also considers a wider range of cultural phenomena such as online social networking, sports events, installations, games-based work and theme parks, where principles of performance are in play.

      Performance in the Twenty-First Century is a  compelling and provocative resource for anybody interested in discovering how performance theory can be applied to cutting-edge culture, and indeed the world around them.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part 1|32 pages

      Scenes of engagement

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|26 pages

      Theatres of engagement

      Performance after postmodernism

      part 2|69 pages

      On mediating performance

      chapter 2|24 pages

      The visible voice (or, the word made flesh)

      Political presence and performative utterance in the public sphere

      chapter 3|18 pages

      In the mix

      Intermedial theatre and hybridity

      chapter 4|25 pages

      Feeling the event

      From mise en scène to mise en sensibilité

      part 3|30 pages

      On (not) being an actor

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Sincerely yours

      From the actor to the persona

      chapter 6|13 pages

      Me singing and dancing

      YouTube's performing bodies

      part 4|59 pages

      On (not) being a spectator

      chapter 7|23 pages

      Viewing and acting (and points in between)

      The trouble with spectating after Rancière

      chapter 8|34 pages

      Audiences and affects

      Theatres of engagement in the experience economy

      part 5|21 pages

      Theatre beyond theatre

      chapter 9|19 pages

      Performance engagements across culture

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