Presence and Absence: The Performing Body
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Presence and Absence: The Performing Body by Adele Anderson
This volume collects research and critical explorations of the performing body by scholars and practitioners in visual and performing arts, textile, fashion and experimental design research, scenography and costume design, dance and performance history. Authors examine performativity of the body, its materiality, immateriality, and virtuality, and investigate experiences of embodiment. They reenvision the body as a site for representation, exploring the absent body in performance and as performance through time and space. Contributors bring a broad variety of contemporary approaches, from live performance to mediated performance, from installation art to performance art, and from experimental fashion to theatre and dance. They discuss issues of process and meaning-making and practices from concept and interpretation to creative production and reception. The volume expands possibilities for the role of the body in performance, while also challenging roles and hierarchies of existing performance practice.
Adele Anderson, Ph.D., MFA, is Associate Professor Emerita of the Empire State College and School for Graduate Studies, State University of New York, USA. She has engaged for over 40 years in making, study, and writing on visual arts, anthropology, cultural studies, performance theory, and arts practice. Sofia Pantouvaki, Ph.D., is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University, Finland. Her design credits include over 70 theatre, opera and dance productions in European venues. Co-author of History of Dress - The Western World and Greece (2010), she has taught, lectured and published internationally.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848882638 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848882637 |
| Title | Presence and Absence: The Performing Body |
| Author | Adele Anderson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Inter/Connexions |
| Year published | 2014-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 182 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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