Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage
- ISBN-10
- 1108967914
- ISBN-13
- 9781108967914
- Category
- Drama
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-31
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Julia A. Walker
Description
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media-this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage
By Julia A. WalkerIn new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media- this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling ...
-
Shakespeare and Modern Theatre: The Performance of Modernity
By Kathleen McLuskie, Christopher Holmes, Michael BristolThe book gathers together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between Shakespeare, the 'culture industries', modernism and live performance.
-
Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge
By Helene LecossoisDundalk performances took place on 17 March with a programme that included The Pot of Broth (W. B. Yeats, 1902), Cathleen ni Houlihan (W. B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory, 1902) and The Eloquent Dempsey (William Boyle, 1906).
-
Theatre and Ghosts: Materiality, Performance and Modernity
By M. Luckhurst, E. MorinHaunting. and. TwentiethCentury. American. Realism. Paul. D. Streufert. In a letter to George JeanNathan, an early critic of American drama, dated 20 June 1920, Eugene O'Neill dismissed his 1918 oneact ghost play saying, 'where did you ...
-
Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht
By Olga TaxidouThis guide to modernism and performance introduces key developments and debates of the period, such as the rise of the director, new theories of acting and new modes of production.
-
Performing Queer Modernism
By Penny FarfanLydia Sokolova, quoted in Hellman, “The Scandal of Nijinsky's Faune,” 15. Evelyn Irons, “Looking for Nijinsky,” Ballet Review 10, no. 1 (1982): 6. John Fraser, “Nijinsky Photographs and Photographers,” Dance Chronicle 78. 79. 80. 81.
-
Dissonances of Modernity: Music, Text, and Performance in Modern Spain
By Irene Gómez-Castellano, Aurélie VialetteEn Vivar nacerá otro Rodrigo con su arrojo dispuesto a luchar despierta, Castilla, despierta; tú naciste para cabalgar. ... Con su sangre a torrentes vertida, Dio a la patria preciado blasón, Y en sus labios cobró vida, ...
-
Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal
By Jane Milling, Graham LeyThe modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance.
-
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
By Matthew J. SmithBy revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, Smith offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture.
-
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era
By C. Hudson, D. Varney, P. EckersallTheatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific.