Overview

Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance serves as a corrective to this. While the passive audience has long been acknowledged in works on response theory and audience studies for its contribution to the performance event, performance styles that use the audience as an active contributing creative force have been appended to the studies as merely variations on a theme. This anthology brings together essays on direct audience participation in the work of fourteen widely varied theatrical and dance artists, covering performance genres of the past and present, popular entertainment and high art. Its comprehensiveness and uniqueness make it an important contribution to the literature on theater and its many forms and facets.

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Author:   Susan Kattwinkel ,  Susan Kattwinkel
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780313316715

ISBN 10:   0313316716
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 August 2003
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert by Joshua Abrams Reaction Tactics: Redefining Postmodern Spectator Response and Expectations by Katherine Adamenko Still Signaling through the Flames: The Living Theatre's Use of Audience Participation in the 1990s by Davie Callaghan It Matters for whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory by Uttara Asha Coorlawala Audience Participation in the Eighteenth-Century London Theatre by Judith W. Fisher The Challenge of Participation: Audiences at Living Stage Theatre Company by Susan C. Haedicke Manipulation of the Mind: Fiction in the Performances of Penn and Teller by Susan Kattwinkel Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating by Joanne Klein The Audience in Cyberspace: Audience-Performer Interactivity in Online Performances by Nina LeNoir Once upon a Time: The Story of the Pantominme Audience by Dawn Lewcock Audience at Risk: Space and Spectators at Feminist Performance by Judith Sebesta ""Walking in the Steps of Your Forefathers"": Locating the Actor and the Audience in Derry's Siege Pageant by Patrick Tuite Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation by Mark S Weinberg The (Oc)cult of Personality: Initiating the Audience into The Edwardian Mysteries by J. Lawton Winslade Index"

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<p> Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event....Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals. - <p>Choice

Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event...Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals. - Choice [V]aluable addition to our knowledge and understanding of theatre audiences. - Participation ...storytellers in need of material specifically related to holidays should find sufficient fodder here to warrant purchase. - School Library Journal

Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event....Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals. - Choice

?Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event....Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals.?-Choice

"""Bringing together a range of diverse essays on a comparatively new field of study, Kattwinkel explores the phenomenon of the active (not passive) spectator and those styles of drama and dance aimed at engaging the audience directly in the theatrical event....Uniformly well written, the essays focus on various periods and concepts including kinespeak, practices of looking, feminist performance, the audience in cyberspace, English pantomime, 18th-century British theater, Rasa, and artists and groups like Cie Felix Ruckert, Penn and Teller, The Living Theatre, the Living Stage Theatre, and the Crimson Players. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and performance professionals."" - Choice ""[V]aluable addition to our knowledge and understanding of theatre audiences."" - Participation ""...storytellers in need of material specifically related to holidays should find sufficient fodder here to warrant purchase."" - School Library Journal"

Author Information

SUSAN KATTWINKEL is an Assistant Professor of Theater at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is active in several national theatrical organizations, most notably the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Southeastern Theatre Conference. She is the author of Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage (Greenwood, 1998).

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