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Creating solo performance
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ISBN: 1317911806 0415720001 1317911814 1315850141 9781317911814 9781315850146 9781322094359 1322094357 9780415719988 0415719984 9780415720007 Year: 2015 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York

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"Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you, the performer, with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a solo show may be the most rewarding, liberating and stressful challenge you will take on in your career. This book acts as your silent collaborator as you develop your performance, by helpfully arranging exercises under the following headings: Beginnings Creating characterGenerating material Using your performance spaceTechnologyEndingsCollaboration Exercises can be explored in sequence, at random or according to your specific needs and interests as a performer. By enabling you to create a bespoke formula that best applies to your specific subject, area of interest, style and discipline, this book will become an indispensable resource as you produce your solo show,"--

Autobiography and performance
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ISBN: 9780230537538 Year: 2008 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave,

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The Nebraska dispatches
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ISBN: 128305101X 9786613051011 0803234228 9780803234222 9780803222946 0803222947 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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When playwright Christopher Cartmill returned to his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to write a play about Chief Standing Bear, he unknowingly began a complicated adventure. As he followed the story of the Ponca chief who fought so hard to return from a reservation in Oklahoma to his homeland in northern Nebraska, Cartmill stumbled into the politics of identity, contested notions of homeland, and his own past. Chronicling these adventures in a series of dispatches to friends, he documented the transformation of a research trip into a three-year exploration of Nebraska, its Native community, the

Staging femininities : performance and performativity
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ISBN: 0719052637 Year: 1999 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

Mapping cultural identity in contemporary Australian performance
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ISBN: 9052019479 9789052019475 Year: 2001 Volume: 2 Publisher: Brussels: Peter Lang,

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Le danseur des solitudes
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ISBN: 2707319589 9782707319586 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris: Éd. de Minuit,

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Il ne s'agit, dans ce livre, que de regarder et de décrire philosophiquement, autant que faire se peut, un grand danseur de baile jondo, Israel Galvan. Il s'agit de reconnaître dans son art contemporain un art de " naissance de la tragédie ". Il s'agit d'écouter son rythme et de reconnaître dans ses mots - au moins trois d'entre eux : la jondura ou " profondeur ", le rematar ou l'art de " mettre fin " et le templar, intraduisible - de grands concepts esthétiques que notre esthétique ignore encore.


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Walking, Writing and Performance : Autobiographical Texts by Deirdre Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith
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ISBN: 1282312421 9786612312427 1841503371 9781841503370 9781841501550 1841501557 Year: 2009 Publisher: Intellect Books Ltd

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"This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and performance. The Crab Walks and Crab Steps Aside are performances made by Phil Smith based on an initial exploratory walking of an area of South Devon where he was taken for childhood holidays and then on to Munich, Herm and San Gimignano. Both shows were accompanied by the distribution of maps seeking to provoke the audience to make their own exploratory walks. Mourning Walk is a performance that relates to a walk Carl Lavery made to mark the anniversary of his father's death. Lavery shows how a secret can be both shared and hidden through the act of communication as he explores 'an ethics of autobiographical performance'. In Tree, the result of a multi-disciplinary collaborative process, Dee Heddon occupies a single square foot of soil, and discovers that by standing stationary and looking closely she can travel across continents and centuries, making unexpected connections through an extroverted autobiographical practice. The work of all three artists, taken together and separately, raises important issues about memory, ritual, life writing, textuality, subjectivity, and site in performance."--Publisher's description.

Utopia in performance: finding hope at the theater
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ISBN: 0472069071 9780472069071 0472099078 9780472099078 9786612591563 0472025570 1282591568 9780472025572 9781282591561 6612591560 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan Press

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What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance , Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change.She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.


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Queer exceptions
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ISBN: 1526141949 1526113716 9781526113719 9781526113696 1526113694 1526113724 Year: 2019 Publisher: Manchester

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Queer expectations is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.


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Performing Autobiography
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ISBN: 1442660643 9781442660649 9781442660656 1442660651 144264446X 9781442644465 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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Stephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor's In On It, and Timothy Findley's Shadows.

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