Overview

New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance. The chapters are each analytical case studies (some written by the artists themselves) of creative practices which include insights into the very latest developments in the confluence of performance and technology. A central concern of all the authors is the manner in which these technologies provide new opportunities for the creation and formulation of performance, and new contributions to the discourse surrounding performance in a digital and mediated culture. Core themes emerging through the chapters include issues such as virtuality, the body, liveness, time and space, interactivity and magic. The book contains descriptions and analyses of work that spans traditional theatre, dance, film and computer games, frequently at the intersection of these forms. A variety of methodological approaches are taken but all writers both describe the work they are involved in and reflect upon it from their theoretical standpoint. The concluding chapter brings the work together, identifying and discussing the major themes.

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Author:   Gavin Carver ,  Colin Beardon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Swets & Zeitlinger
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9789026519666

ISBN 10:   9026519664
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Gavin Carver, Colin Beardon; Chapter 2 The importance of being interactive, Mark Coniglio; Chapter 3 The digital double, Steve Dixon; Chapter 4 The emergence of hyper-reality in performance, Kjell Yngve Petersen; Chapter 5 The technology of the real, Jackie Smart; Chapter 6 Halving angels: technology's poem, Jools Gilson-Ellis, Richard Povall; Chapter 7 The Performance Animation Toolbox, Jorgen Callesen, Marika Kajo, Katrine Nilsen; Chapter 8 Theatre of context, Jeff Burke, Jared Stein; Chapter 9 Haunting the movie, Toni Dove; Chapter 10 Play it again, Sam, Michael Nitsche, Maureen Thomas; Chapter 11 Sorcerers' Apprentice, Jane Harris, Bernard Walsh; Chapter 12 Turning conventional theatre inside out, Christie Carson; Chapter 13 New visions in performance, Gavin Carver, Colin Beardon;

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