Narrative in Performance
- Editor: McCutcheon, Jade Rosina
- Editor: Sellers-Young, Barbara
Narrative in Performance
- Editor: McCutcheon, Jade Rosina
- Editor: Sellers-Young, Barbara
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A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an international range of scholars and subsequently creating a critical dialogue for approaching this fundamental topic within performance studies. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of a variety of different performance genres, the book will provide a method for exploring the context of a particular form or artist and enhance students’ ability to critically reflect on performance.
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements Notes on
- Contributors
- 1.
- Introduction (B.Sellers-Young & J.R.McCutcheon)
- PART I : PERFORMING NARRATIVE IDENTITY IN CULTURE
- 2. The Zar: Enactment of Social Drama in the Southern Sudan (B.Sellers-Young)
- 3. Maranga Mai (J.Greenwood)
- 4. Her-stories in Indonesian Dance Drama (K.Foley)
- 5. Decolonizing Techno-Art (P.Pilar)
- PART II : POPULARIZING PERFORMANCE
- 6. Steps in Time: The Evolving Role of Dance in the Broadway Musical (M.J.Lodge)
- 7. The Multiple Narratives of Cirque du Soleil (K. Lavers & L.P.Leroux)
- 8. Personal Agency and Community Empowerment: Moth Style Engagement (J.Halebsky)
- 9. Narrating and Negotiating Identity in World of Warcraft (J.Osborn)
- PART III : ROCKING THE BOAT: REVOLUTIONARY INTEGRATIONS
- 10. Ellen Lauren: The Art of Extreme Acting, An Interview (S.T.Cummings)
- 11. People Like Us: Revolutions in Australian Theatre (J-A.Long)
- 12. Jacques Lecoq: This Theatre Called My Body (N.Pascetta)
- 13. Pina Bausch: Narrative, Gender, Reception (J.R.McCutcheon)
- 14. Narrative Pivots: Text and Movement in Crystal Pite's Dance-Theatre (P.Dickinson)
- 15. Narrative Futures: Community, Technology and Globalization (B.Sellers-Young & J.R.McCutcheon).
