Performing Climates
- Author: Paterson, Eddie
- Author: Stevens, Lara
Performing Climates
- Author: Paterson, Eddie
- Author: Stevens, Lara
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About
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency.
This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. This book examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition.
This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.
Contents
- Author Notes
- Author Bios
- List of Figures
- Chapter One: Performing Climates
- Chapter Two: Biospheres
- Chapter Three: Death
- Chapter Four: Ear
- Chapter Five: Ants
- Chapter Six: Mermaid
- Chapter Seven: Granite
- Chapter Eight: Spider
- Chapter Nine: Mycorrhizae
- Chapter Ten: Lego
- Chapter Eleven: Ice
- Chapter Twelve: Worms
- Chapter Thirteen: Unicorn
- Chapter Fourteen, with Angie Abdilla (contributing author): Tree
- Reference List
- Index
