Performance Affects

J. Thompson

ISBN 10: 1349307130 / ISBN 13: 9781349307135

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK Apr 2009, 2009

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Neuware -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, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performance Affects
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK Apr 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349307130
• ISBN 13: 9781349307135
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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, seeking to realign the field of Applied Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to sensations of pleasure.

About the Author

JAMES THOMPSON Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester, UK, Director of In Place of War and a Director of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research. He is author of Drama Workshops for Anger Management and Offending Behaviour (1999), Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond (2003), Digging Up Stories: Applied Theatre, Performance and War and with Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour, Performance In Place of War (2009).