Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance - how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it - needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. Performing Climates examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition. This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.
| ISBN: | 9781032225562 |
| Publication date: | 4th February 2025 |
| Author: | Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
| Genres: |
Music Performance art Theatre studies Applied ecology Environmental policy and protocols The arts: general topics Earth sciences |
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance's relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance - how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it - needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. Performing Climates examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition. This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.
Performing Climates features in the following genres: Music, Performance art, Theatre studies, Applied ecology, Environmental policy and protocols, The arts: general topics, Earth sciences
Performing Climates is available in Hardback
Performing Climates was written by Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Performing Climates has 192 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies series
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