| Description |
1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Authors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- piecing mime together -- Defining mime and physical theatre -- Understanding mime -- Why mime matters -- 2 The moment of mime -- Revealing mime history -- Mime and the 1960s -- Venues: putting mime in its place -- The next generation: mime in the 1970s -- International influences -- Conclusion -- 3 Cultural economies of mime and physical theatre: ecologies of support -- Political and economic landscapes |
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Structures of support and funding -- A home for mime -- Mime Action Group: for and of its times -- Festivals as vehicles for community, conviviality, collaboration and cultural production -- After-words -- 4 Mime and physical theatre beyond the centre -- Mime and physical theatre in the English regions -- The Northern Region -- a profile in time -- Scotland -- From Scotland into Wales -- Northern Ireland -- A note on traffic across the seas -- 5 Making mime and physical theatre -- The economics of devising -- Improvisation -- the body and soul of devising -- Play, creativity and 'le jeu' |
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The etude and physical scoring -- Objects and masks -- Dance, choreography and choreographic building blocks -- The influence of visual and live art on devising -- Popular performance -- From collaborator to director and back -- Conclusion -- 6 From scarcity to abundance: training, education, dissemination and debate in mime and physical theatre -- Landscape, provision and discourse -- A time of workshops -- Learning mime in the community: a challenge to the conventions of drama teaching |
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Teaching mime and physical theatre in higher education: drama schools and universities in an ambivalent relationship -- Concluding and continuing training -- 7 All mimes are equal? -- The wider picture -- Working class mime -- Women in mime and physical performance -- Gender, sexuality and physical performance -- Race and mime -- Mime, physical theatre and interculturalism -- Disability, mime and physical theatre -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- the rise and fall of mime as a cultural phenomenon -- Making content -- mime and physical theatre about something -- Critical reception |
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Mime and physical theatre into the new millennium -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murray, Simon
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| ISBN |
9781000862713 |
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1000862712 |
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