| Description |
xi, 216 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Worlds of performance |
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Worlds of performance.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The performance of the senses / André Lepecki and Sally Banes -- Rasaesthetics / Richard Schechner -- Olfactory performances / Sally Banes -- Unearthing kinesthesia : groping among cross-cultural models of the senses in performance / Deidre Sklar -- Senses and silence in actor training and performance / Phillip B. Zarrilli -- Making sense of food in performance : the table and the stage / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Edible performance : feasting and festivity in early Tudor entertainment / Denise E. Cole -- Incense & decadents : symbolist theatre's use of scent / Mary Fleischer -- Sensing realism : illusionism, actuality, and the theatrical sensorium / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. -- Guiding somatic responses within performative structures : contemporary live art and sensorial perception / Stephen Di Benedetto -- Containment + contamination : a performance landscape for the senses at PQ03 / Dorita Hannah -- Seeing nothing : now hear this ... / Martin Welton -- A doubly "environmental" sensorium : Omaha Magic Theatre's sea of forms / Maya E. Roth -- Tangible acts : touch performances / Jennifer Fisher -- Touching the sun on the reservation / Anita Gonzalez -- Performers, spectators, cannibals : making sense of theatrical consumption / Kerrie Schaefer -- Indonesian theatre and its double : Putu Wijaya paints a theatre of mental terror / Cobina Gillitt -- Artaud's anatomy / Allen Weiss |
| Summary |
Featuring contributions from some of the leading names in the field, including Richard Schechner and Phillip Zarrilli, this title investigates the role of all five senses in relation to performance, covering essays that examine both Western and non-Western performance, traditional and contemporary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Performance.
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Senses and sensation.
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| Author |
Banes, Sally.
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Lepecki, André.
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| LC no. |
2006022155 |
| ISBN |
9780415281850 hardback |
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0415281857 hardback |
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9780415281867 paperback |
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0415281865 paperback |
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0203965922 e-book |
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