The Potentials of Spaces
The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2006
190 pages
978-1-84150-949-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Potentials of Spaces interrogates the relationship between scenography and performance in contemporary dramatic activities. The book provides an illuminating platform for discussion concerning the interrelations between theatrical movement and gesture in physical space. In exploring territories of performance, the author equally combines theoretical research with details of dramatic methods and performances, thus providing a valuable insight into working practices. Avant-garde and experimental approaches towards sensory, spatial and visual aspects of the stage are described and explored.
Through a discussion regarding the performance possibilities viable through technological development and new media in recent years, the book aims to challenge tradition and inspire new creative directions upon the stage. The book breaks new ground on dramatic and spatial awareness within the tropics of theatre. An essential text for those interested in, or studying, theatrical practice and scenography.
Through a discussion regarding the performance possibilities viable through technological development and new media in recent years, the book aims to challenge tradition and inspire new creative directions upon the stage. The book breaks new ground on dramatic and spatial awareness within the tropics of theatre. An essential text for those interested in, or studying, theatrical practice and scenography.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84150-949-5 (9781841509495)
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Alison Oddey | Christine White
The Potentials of Spaces
The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance
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06/2006
Intellect Books
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Persons
Christine White is a professor of art and design, director of the Design Unit and Holography Lab DMU. Ph.D. Goldsmiths' London, principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). She has worked on a number of research projects and been Principal Investigator on a range of bids from Art and Humanities Research Council, European Funding, Heritage Lottery Funding and Historic England. She has eight Ph.D. students ranging from ceramics, arts, holography, photography and non-fungible artefacts and solar panel recycling. She is PI for leather materials and has run sustainability events with businesses. Her current research is in the broad field of what next for the cultural and creative industries.
Contact: De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK.
Contact: De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK.
Content
- Front Cover
- Preliminary Pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Potentials of Spaces
- Part I: Different Beginnings
- Directors and Designers: Is There a Different Direction?
- Different Directions: The Potentials of Autobiographical Space
- Collaborative Explorations: Reformulating the Boundaries of Scenographic Practice
- Flatness and Depth: Reflections
- Part II: Performance Potentials
- Digital Dreams: Sleep Deprivation Chamber
- Re-Designing the Human: Motion Capture and Performance Potentials
- Smart Laboratories: New Media
- A Place to Play: Experimentation and Interactions Between Technology and Performance
- Part III: Aesthetic Visions
- Scenographic Avant-Gardes: Artistic Partnerships in Canada
- Codes and Overloads: The Scenography of Richard Foreman
- Spatial Practices: The Wooster Group's Rhode Island Trilogy
- Physicality and Virtuality: Memory, Space and Actor on the Mediated Stage
- Selected Bibliography
- Biographies of Authors
- Index
- Back Cover
