Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites of imaginative exchange and transformative experience and it discusses the social, political and ethical dimensions of performance design. The international range of contributors and case studies provide clear perspectives on why scenographic design has become a central consideration for performance makers today. The extended introduction defines the characteristics of 21st-century scenography and examines the scope and potentials of this new field. Across five sections, the volume provides examples and case studies which richly illustrate the scope of contemporary scenographic practice and which analyse the various ways in which it is used in global cultural contexts. These include mainstream theatre practice, experimental theatre, installation and live art, performance in the city, large-scale events and popular entertainments, and performances by and for specific communities.
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Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword – Arnold Aronson Introducing ‘Expanded’ Scenography - Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer Section 1: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE 1 Devices of Wonder: globalizing technologies in the process of scenography - Christopher Baugh (University of Leeds, UK) 2 Screen Space: Bearing Witness & Performing Resistance - Dorita Hannah (University of Tasmania, Australia) Section 2: ARCHITECTURAL SPACE 3 Between Symbolic Representation and New Critical Realism: Architecture as Scenography and Scenography as Architecture - Thea Brejzek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) 4 City as Site: Street Performance and Site Permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 - Marcela Oteiza (Wesleyan University, CT, USA) Section 3: AGENCY 5 Scenography Matters: Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique - Jane Collins (University of the Arts, London, UK) and Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, NJ, USA) 6 Scenographic Agency: A Showing-doing and a Responsibility for Showing-doing - Kathleen Irwin (University of Regina, Canada) 7 Thinking that Matters: Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Performance Design - Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Section 4: AUDIENCES 8 Audience Immersion, Mindfulness and the Experience of Scenography - David Shearing (University of Leeds, UK) 9 Cognitive Approaches to Performance Design, or How the Dead Materialize and Other Spectacular Design Solutions - Stephen Di Benedetto (University of Miami, FL, USA) Section 5: MATERIALITY 10 The Matter of Water: Bodily Experience of Scenography in Contemporary Spectacle - Nebojša Tabacki (University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany) 11 Ecologies of Autism: Vibrant Space in Imagining Autism - Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK) Bibliography Index
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[An] excellent and comprehensive collection [that's] suitable as introduction for undergraduates and for developing ideas, histories and approaches for researchers.
An introduction to the dynamic field of performance design in and beyond the theatre, with analysis and case studies contributed by world experts in the discipline from the UK, USA, Chile, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Includes contributions from world experts in scenography
The series reflects the recent growth of scenographic practices and the expansion from theatre/stage design to a wider notion of scenography as a spatial practice. It incorporates performance design practices in theatre, performance, live art, architecture, visual communication and interactive design. Each volume offers an accessible overview of design both for and as performance, and combines theoretical frames with a set of stimulating examples of scenography that showcase the interdisciplinary reach of contemporary performance design. The series will be of interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, as well as art, architecture, design and visual communication.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474244381
Publisert
2017-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
875 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
189 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Om bidragsyterne

Joslin McKinney is Associate Professor in Scenography, Deputy Head of School and Programme Manager for the postgraduate course in Performance Design in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. Scott Palmer is Associate Professor in Scenography at the University of Leeds, UK and co-convenor of the International Federation of Theatre Research Scenography Working Group.