Body and Performance (Paperback)

Sandra Reeve

ISBN 10: 1909470163 / ISBN 13: 9781909470163

Published by Triarchy Press, Bridport, 2013

About this Item

Paperback. Following on from Sandra Reeve's Nine Ways of Seeing a Body (which offered a historical perspective on different key approaches to the body over time), this new edited collection brings together a wide range of contemporary approaches to the body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The intention is for students, dancers, performers, singers, musicians, directors and choreographers to locate their own preferred approach(es) to the body-in-performance amongst the lenses described here. The collection is also designed to facilitate further research in that direction as well as to signpost alternatives that might enrich their current vocabulary. All 12 approaches represent the praxis and research of their authors. The chapters reveal a wide variety of different interests but they share the common framework of the notion of 'body as flux', of 'no fixed or determined sense of self' and of supporting the performer's being-becoming-being as a skilful creative entity, emphasising the intelligence of the body at work.Authors: Campbell Edinborough, Hull University ~ Sreenath Nair & Arya Madhavan, Lincoln University Konstantinos Thomaidis, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London ~ Kate Hunter, Victoria University ~ Niamh Dowling, Rose Bruford College, London ~ Suze Adams, Independent Research Artist ~ Emma Meehan, Coventry University ~ Nicholas Hope, Intl. Screen Academy, Sydney ~ Roisin O'Gorman, Univ. College, Cork ~ Natalie Garrett Brown, Coventry University ~ Imogene Newland & Franziska Schroeder, Queen's Univ, Belfast ~ Pam Woods, Exeter University Brings together 12 contemporary approaches to the body, all being used by performers or in the context of performance training. These 12 'lenses' share the notion of body as flux and no fixed/determined sense of self. They draw on approaches like Alexander technique, BMC, Feldenkrais,authentic movement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Body and Performance (Paperback)
• Publisher: Triarchy Press, Bridport
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909470163
• ISBN 13: 9781909470163
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The second in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body. Following on from Sandra Reeve's Nine Ways of Seeing a Body (which offered a historical perspective on different key approaches to the body over time), this new edited collection brings together a wide range of contemporary approaches to the body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The intention is for students, dancers, performers, singers, musicians, directors and choreographers to locate their own preferred approach(es) to the body-in-performance amongst the lenses described here. The collection is also designed to facilitate further research in that direction as well as to signpost alternatives that might enrich their current vocabulary. All 12 approaches represent the praxis and research of their authors. The chapters reveal a wide variety of different interests but they share the common framework of the notion of 'body as flux', of 'no fixed or determined sense of self' and of supporting the performer's being-becoming-being as a skilful creative entity, emphasising the intelligence of the body at work.

About the Author

Dr. Sandra Reeve is a UK-based movement teacher, artist, director and movement psychotherapist, offering therapy and supervision in private practice. Since 1990, she has taught an annual programme of autobiographical and environmental movement workshops called Move into Life(R) and she creates occasional, small-scale ecological performances. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter, where she lectures in Performance and Ecology.