| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
What is theatre? |
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What is theatre?
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| Contents |
Introduction / Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May -- Theater, environment, and the thirties / Barry Witham -- Bringing blood to ghosts : English Canadian drama and the ecopolitics of place / Nelson Gray -- Other others : Dramatis Animalia in some alternative American drama / Robert Baker-White -- The silence of the polar bears : performing (climate) change in the theater of species / Una Chaudhuri -- Dancing with monkeys? On performance commons and scientific experiments / Baz Kershaw -- Everything à la Giraffe : science, performance, and a spectacular body in nineteenth-century Vienna / Derek Lee Barton -- Ethics, evolution, ecology, and performance / Bruce McConachie -- Natural disaster, cultural memory : Montserrat adrift in the black and green Atlantic / Kathleen M. Gough -- Stillness in nature : Eeo Stubblefield's Still dance with Anna Halprin / Arden Thomas -- British alternative companies and antinuclear plays : eco-conscious theater in Thatcher's Britain / Sara Freeman -- Bikes, choices, action! Embodied performances of sustainability by a traveling theater group / Meg O'Shea -- Earth firsts!'s "Crack the Dam" and the aesthetics of ecoactivist performance / Sarah Ann Standing -- Ecodirecting canonical plays / Downing Cless -- Devising Green piece : a holistic pedagogy for artists and educators / Anne Justine D'Zmura -- Sound ecology in the woods : Red Riding Hood takes an audio walk / Cornelia Hoogland -- The labor of greening Love's labour's lost / Justin A. Miller -- Theatrical production's carbon footprint / Ian Garrett -- Epilogue : thinking forward ... / Wallace Heim |
| Summary |
"Readings in Performance and Ecology is a ground-breaking collection of essays focusing on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world; how performance helps us understand the way our bodies are integrally connected to the land; how environmentalists use performance as a form of protest; how performance illuminates our relationships with animals as autonomous creatures and artistic symbols; and how performance can help humans re-define our place in the larger ecological community"--Provided by publisher |
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This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Direction & Production.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Stagecraft.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Drama
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Ecocriticism
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Ecology in literature
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Environmental protection in literature
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Nature in literature
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Theater
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Ökologie
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Tiere Motiv
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Drama
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Aktivismus
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Umweltschutz
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arons, Wendy, 1964-
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May, Theresa J
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| ISBN |
9781137011695 |
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1137011696 |
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1349340774 |
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9781349340774 |
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