Scenography expanded: an introduction to contemporary performance design

by McKinney, Joslin Palmer, Scott

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Full title :Scenography expanded : an introduction to contemporary performance design / edited by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer.

Summary

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 create and 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 includes Arnold Aronson, Christopher Baugh, Maaike Bleeker, Thea Brejzek, Ethel Brooks, Jane Collins, Stephen Di Benedetto, Dorita Hannah, Kathleen Irwin, Marcela I. Oteíza, David Shearing, Nebojésa Tabaécki and Melissa Trimingham. The extended introduction by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer 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 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. -- from back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Place of Publication:London, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474244428, 1474244424
DOI:10.5040/9781474244428
oclc:on1249215723
LC Classification:PN2091.S8
Dewey Decimal:792.02/5

List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing 'Expanded' Scenography -- I. Technological Space: 1. 'Devices of Wonder': Globalizing Technologies in the Process of Scenography ; 2. Scenographic Screen Space: Bearing Witness and Performing Resistance -- II. Architectural Space: 3. Between Symbolic Representation and New Critical Realism: Architecture as Scenography and Scenography as Architecture ; 4. City as Site: Street Performance and Site Permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 -- III. Agency: 5. Scenography Matters: Performing Romani Identities as Strategy and Critique ; 6. Scenographic Agency: A Showing-Doing and a Responsibility for Showing-Doing ; 7. Thinking That Matters: Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Performance Design -- IV. Audiences: 8. Audience Immersion, Mindfulness and the Experience of Scenography ; 9. Cognitive Approaches to Performance Design, or How the Dead Materialize and Other Spectacular Design Solutions -- V. Materials. 10. The Matter of Water: Bodily Experience of Scenography in Contemporary Spectacle ; 11. Ecologies of Autism: Vibrant Space in Imagining Autism -- Refe…