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(Syn)aesthetics

Redefining Visceral Performance

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  1. Josephine Machon
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance

    1. Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 1-9

  3. Part 1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Defining (Syn)aesthetics

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 13-33

    3. Connecting Theories

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 34-53

    4. (Syn)aesthetics in Practice

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 54-81

  4. Part 2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk: In the Prae-sens of Body and Space — The (Syn)aesthetics of Site-Sympathetic Work

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 89-99

    3. Lizzie Clachan and David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World — the Audience and Hybridity

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 100-111

    4. Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation — the Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 112-123

    5. Marisa Carnesky: Trapping the Audience in the Fantasy — Instinct, the Body and the Magic of the Experiential

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 124-131

    6. Naomi Wallace and Kwame Kwei-Armah: Desire, the Body and Transgressive Acts of Playwriting — on Writing and Directing Things of Dry Hours

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 132-143

    7. Linda Bassett: Bypassing the Logical — Performing Churchill’s Far Away

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 144-152

    8. Jo McInnes: A Text That Demands to Be Played With — Performing Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 153-159

    9. Graeae’s Jenny Sealey and Playwright Glyn Cannon: Seeing Words and (Dis)Comfort Zones — the Fusion of Bodies, Text and Technology in On Blindness

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 160-171

    10. Sara Giddens and Simon Jones of Bodies in Flight: The In-Betweens, Where Flesh Utters and Words Move — on Flesh, Text, Space and Technologies

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 172-183

    11. Leslie Hill and Helen Paris of Curious: Embodied Intimacies — On (the) Scent, Memory and the Visceral-Virtual

      • Josephine Machon
      Pages 184-196

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 197-221
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About this book

A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice.

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'The diversity of voices [in part 2 of the book] is a real strength...[and] provides a rich array of primary source material for all readers from undergraduates to professors...' - Patrick Duggan, New Theatre Quarterly

About the author

List of interviewees: LINDA BASSETT is an internationally renowned actress. BODIES IN FLIGHT was formed in 1990 by choreographer Sara Giddens and writer Simon Jones, and makes interdisciplinary performance work. GLYN CANNON is a British playwright. MARISA CARNESKY is an Olivier award winning performance artist and show-woman who has presented performance events internationally. CURIOUS was formed in 1996 by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, and has produced many projects in a range of disciplines including performance, installation, publication and film. AKRAM KHAN is an acclaimed choreographer and artistic director of Akram Khan Dance Company, set up in 2000. KWAME KWEI-ARMAH is a British actor, broadcaster, columnist, director and playwright. JO MCINNES has performed in theatre, film and television and currently runs her own production company. PUNCHDRUNK is the UK's leading exponent of immersive theatre, and produces original works of installation performance on an epic scale. JENNY SEALEY is Artistic Director of Graeae, a disabled-led theatre company that profiles the skills of actors, writers and directors with physical and sensory impairments. SHUNT is a collective of ten artists creating large-scale performance events in unexpected, abandoned or derelict buildings throughout London. NAOMI WALLACE is a playwright, screenwriter and poet.

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