Overview
Explores ethics as a relationship between performers/makers
Argues that lessons from improvisation can teach us how to cooperate
Builds theoretical relationships between ethics, aesthetics and education
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book asks important questions about making performance through the means of collaboration and co-created practice. It argues that we can align ethics and aesthetics with collaborative performance to realise the importance of being in association with one another, and being engaged through our shared imaginations. Evident in the examples of practice visited in this study is the attention given by a number of practitioners to the development of shared, co-operative modes of creation. Here, we can appreciate ethical work as being relational, forged in association with the others as we cultivate ideas that matter.
In looking at a range of work from practitioners including Meg Stuart, Rosemary Lee, Deufert&Philschke and Fevered Sleep, Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance explores ways that we rehearse by attending to ethics, aesthetics and co-creation. In learning to listen, to observe, to co-operate and to negotiate, these practitioners reveal the ways that they bring their work into existence through the transmission of shared meaning.
Reviews
“This work communicates complex ideas with clarity, rooting the more ‘abstract’ thinking around ethics in excellent examples that are grounded in a broad range of literary sources.” (Professor Sarah Whatley, Director of the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK)
“An absorbing and enthralling book about the complexities of creation and co-creation in diverse collaborative cultures. A demystification of our engagement with ethics in performance, an unravelling of critical readings and a genuine source for debate on what really matters in the artistic ecology of creating and experiencing dance, theatre and performance.” (Dr George Rodosthenous, University of Leeds, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fiona Bannon is Senior Lecturer in Dance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK. Having had an early career in freelance community arts practice, she transferred this knowledge to academic roles lecturing in dance, and later became Head of the School of Arts at the University of Hull. She is Chair of DanceHE, a UK wide network promoting Dance in Higher Education, and Chair of World Dance Alliance-Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance
Authors: Fiona Bannon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91731-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91730-6Published: 16 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06287-3Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91731-3Published: 01 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 250
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies