Dramaturgy to Make Visible

The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times

Peter Eckersall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-75757-1 (ISBN)

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This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating wide-ranging events and activities.

This exploration defines dramaturgy as a perceptibly transforming agency in the construction, presentation and reception of contemporary performance; and it shows how contemporary performance has an intrinsic dramaturgical aspect whose proliferation of dramaturgical practices has led to a far-reaching reinvention of what contemporary theatre is. In doing so, this book deals with a careful selection of performance practices, including theatrical adaptations, new media dramaturgy, contemporary dance, installation-performance, postdramatic theatre, visionary works by auteurs, and revivals of well-known stage shows.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater studies, performance studies, cultural studies, curating, and dance scholarship.

Peter Eckersall is a professor in performance studies at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. His research interests include Japanese performance, and dramaturgy and contemporary performance. Recent publications include Okada Toshiki and Japanese Theatre (coedited, 2021), Curating Dramaturgies (coedited, Routledge 2021), and New Media Dramaturgy: Performance, Media, and New-Materialism (coauthored, 2017). He is cofounder and dramaturg of the Melbourne-based performance group Not Yet It’s Difficult.

1. New Dramaturgy and Theory: A Letter to Marianne Van Kerkhoven 2. Placemaking, Placelessness, and Spaces of Disaster Capitalism: Okada Toshiki’s Biopolitical Atmosphere as Dramaturgy 3. Slow Dramaturgy and Theatres of Extinction 4. Political Bodies and Ways of Listening: Strangeness and Expanded Dramaturgy in Not Yet It’s Difficult and Marrugeku

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo	14 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-367-75757-5 / 0367757575
ISBN-13	978-0-367-75757-1 / 9780367757571
Zustand	Neuware