Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice
This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
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Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice
This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
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Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

by N. Shaughnessy
Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice

by N. Shaughnessy

Paperback(2012)

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This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137525857
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/06/2012
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. Her teaching and research specialisms are contemporary performance, applied theatre, autobiography and performance theory. Previous publications include essays on gender and theatre, autobiographical drama and applied theatre as well as a book on Gertrude Stein. She is Co-Director of Kent University's Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and leads the AHRC funded research project Imagining Autism.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface: Applying Performance PART I: HISTORIES & CONTEXTS Setting the Scene: Critical and Theoretical Contexts Pasts, Pioneers, Politics Principles of Applying Performance PART II: PRACTICES Performing Lives Placing Performance Digital Transportations PART III: PARTICIPATION Unhappy Relations: Critiques of Collaboration Theme Park Hells: Incarcerations Participant Centred Pedagogy and the Affective Learning Environment: LIFT 2011 A Taste of Heaven: (Syn)aesthetics and Participatory Visceral Performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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