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Reading Contemporary Performance As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any discussion of this evolving theatricality. Specially commissioned entries from a wealth of contributors map out the many and varied ways of discussing performance in all of its forms – from theatrical and site-specific performances to live and New Media art. The book is divided into two sections: • Concepts – key terms and ideas arranged according to the five characteristic elements of performance art: time, space, action, performer, and audience. • Methodologies and turning points – the seminal theories and ways of reading performance, such as postmodernism, epic theatre, feminisms, happenings, and animal studies. Entries in both sections are accompanied by short case studies of specific performances and events, demonstrating creative examples of the ideas and issues in question. Three different introductory essays provide multiple entry points into the discussion of contemporary performance, and cross-references for each entry encourage the plotting of one’s own pathway. Reading Contemporary Performance is an invaluable guide, providing not just a strong grounding, but an exploration and contextualization of this broad and vital field. Meiling Cheng is Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts/Critical Studies and English at the University of Southern California and Director of Critical Studies at USC School of Dramatic Arts, USA. Gabrielle H. Cody is Professor of Drama on the Mary Riepma Ross Chair at Vassar College., USA. She concentrates her areas of teaching in performance studies, environmental studies, and performance. This page intentionally left blank Reading Contemporary Performance Theatricality Across Genres Edited by Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle H. Cody First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle H. Cody for selection and editorial matter; individual essays, the contributors The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the contributors for their individual essays, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Reading contemporary performance : theatricality across genres / edited by Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle Cody. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. 1. Performing arts –Philosophy. 2. Performance art – Philosophy. 3. Theater – Philosophy. I. Cheng, Meiling, 1960– editor. II. Cody, Gabrielle, 1956– editor. PN1584.R43 2015 791.01-dc23 2015012992 ISBN: 978-0-415-62497-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-62498-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-10383-8 (ebk) Typeset in Arno and Interstate by HWA Text and Data Management, London To Willa Jane Velasquez Sio-Cody, a.k.a. Mootchie Right up to the moon and back To Master Riro, the multicentric ear for my writing This page intentionally left blank Contents List of figures xiv List of contributors xvi How to use this book xxxi Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle H. Cody Acknowledgments xxxii PART I Introductions 1 Reading performance: a physiognomy 3 Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle H. Cody Theatricality across genres 8 Gabrielle H. Cody and Meiling Cheng Performing the theatrical matrix 11 Meiling Cheng and Gabrielle H. Cody Introductory essays bibliography 16 PART II Concepts and paired case studies 19 Time 21 Communitas 21 Debra Levine Endurance performance 22 Jennie Klein Marina Abramovic’s Durational Opus 24 Cynthia Carr Event 26 Marcela A. Fuentes viii CONTENTS Liminality 27 Debra Levine Post-linearity 29 Sarah Bay-Cheng Precariousness 30 Eleonora Fabião Wang Wei’s Temporary Space 31 Philip Tinari Remains 33 Elise Morrison Reproduction 34 Sarah Bay-Cheng Space 36 Environmental Theatre 36 Gwendolyn Alker Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s red, black, and GREEN: a blues 37 Arden Thomas Hierarchy 39 Steve Luber Installation art 40 Rachel Haidu The Internet 41 Philip Auslander Landscape theatre 43 Amy Strahler Holzapfel Mise-en-scène 44 Kimberly Jannarone Prison culture 46 Kathleen Ryan Proxemics 47 Gabrielle H. Cody Fifteen principles of Black Market International 48 Michaël La Chance Scenography 50 Matthew Smith Surveillance 51 Elise Morrison Performing Surveillance Camera Art 53 Pramod K. Nayar Virtual reality 55 Philip Auslander Action 57 Appropriation 57 Winnie Wong Circus 59 Peta Tait Experimental music 60 Andrew J. Henkes CONTENTS ix Grace notes: Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension 61 Bonnie Marranca Extreme performance 63 Meiling Cheng He Yunchang’s limit acts 65 Meiling Cheng Happenings 67 Mariellen Sandford Historicity 68 Jeanne Colleran Intervention 69 Lissette Olivares Sisters Of Survival Signal S.O.S. 71 Cheri Gaulke Mediaturgy 74 Bonnie Marranca Romeo Castellucci’s Hey Girl! 75 Daniel Sack Mimicry 77 Jessica Applebaum Montage 78 T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko New genre public art 79 Sharon Irish Excerpts from Prostitution Notes (1974) 80 Suzanne Lacy Paradox 83 Eleonora Fabião Paratheatre 84 Lissette Olivares Feminist blogging as activism and pedagogy 86 Jill Dolan Propaganda 87 Matthew Smith Quotation 88 Shawn-Marie Garrett Reenactment 89 Sarah Bay-Cheng Heather Cassils’ indeterminate body 90 Amelia Jones Scenario 93 Diana Taylor Simulacrum 94 T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko War 96 Mike Sell
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