Performing Climates
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2025
168 pages
978-1-040-30234-7 (ISBN)
Description
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance - how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it - needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. Performing Climates examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition. This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.
Reviews / Votes
'Performing Climates speaks brilliantly to the new zeitgeist of artistic and cultural thinking that is showing ways of living with climate change empathetically and with attention to multiple cultural knowledge systems and artistic sensibilities. Paterson and Stevens show how to live with sensitive attention to the everyday, situated inextricably between thinking, creativity and activism.'Peter Eckersall, City University of New York
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-040-30234-7 (9781040302347)
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Eddie Paterson | Lara Stevens
Performing Climates
Book
approx. 07/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
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Eddie Paterson | Lara Stevens
Performing Climates
Book
02/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€205.90
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Eddie Paterson | Lara Stevens
Performing Climates
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02/2025
Routledge
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Persons
Eddie Paterson is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.
Lara Stevens is Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Lara Stevens is Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Content
1. Performing Climates 2. Biospheres 3. Death 4. Ear 5. Ants 6. Mermaid 7. Granite 8. Spider 9. Mycorrhizae 10. Lego 11. Ice 12. Worms 13. Unicorn 14. Tree
