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Performance Affects
Ort: Hampshire
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Jahr: 2009
Autor(en): James Thomson
ISBN: 9780230221604
Umfang / Preis: 216 Seiten/ PND 50.00
 Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory performance practice. Applied Theatre has traditionally concentrated on effects - impacts, themes communicated or 'truths' revealed. Performance Affects challenges this orientation by suggesting that an affective realm needs to be the focus for a renewed aesthetic, ethical and radical vision of the practice. Performance projects with child soldiers, storytelling programmes in tsunami-affected areas and prison theatre workshops in post-genocide Rwanda are used to demonstrate the limits of a practice reliant solely on effect - and an alternative is suggested: one that encourages a commitment to pleasure, passion and enjoyment as a starting point for a political-aesthetic practice that acknowledges the importance of our affection for others as a stimulus to social change.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
PART I: THE END OF EFFECT
Introduction: Hedonism is a Bunker
Incidents of Cutting and Chopping
The End of the Story?
Academic Scriptwriters and Bodily Affects
PART II: PERFORMANCE AFFECTS
Performance Affects: A Kind of Triumph
The Call of Beauty: An Affective Invitation
About Face: Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible
Conclusion: Let Them Slide
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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