Tracing the Footprints: Documenting the Process of Performance

by John Freeman

Overview

Tracing the Footprints is aimed at students, teachers, practitioners and lecturers involved in the documentation of practice. On a surface level, it documents the construction of a performance project, 'At Last Sight,' which was made with a group of final year UK undergraduates. Beyond this, and more importantly, the book serves as a unique document of the activities involved in articulating the processes of live performance. What the book demonstrates is that theatre making is not just one process but many; all linked, interwoven, impossible to disentangle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761825104
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/16/2003
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

John Freeman is Senior Lecturer, Department of Performing Arts, De Montfort University, United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction: Preparing the Ground
Chapter 5 The Construction of Script
Chapter 6 Script into Text
Chapter 7 Text into Performance
Chapter 8 Performance Critique 1
Chapter 9 Performance Critique 2
Chapter 10 Performance Critique 3
Chapter 11 Conclusion: Arrival and Departure
Chapter 12 Postscript: Claims and Disclaimers
Chapter 13 Notes on the Author
Chapter 14 Index