Overview
Brings together a range of established contributors on performance and risk research
Interrogates how risk is presented to new audiences in a variety of encounters
Asks who and what is at risk in performance work that leaves things to chance
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Ethics of Risky Aesthetics: Moral Codes, Being Decent, and Doing it Right
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Performing Intimacies: Flirting, Whispering, and Sharing Stories in the Dark
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Risking the Self: Identities, Playing with Risk, and Encountering the Edge
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About this book
This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that promote, encourage and embrace risky encounters in a variety of forms. The collection brings together established voices on performance and risk research and draws them into conversation with next generation academic-practitioners in a dynamic reappraisal of what it means to risk oneself through the act of making and participating in performance practice. It takes into account the work of other performance scholars for whom risk and precarity are central concerns, but seeks to move the debate forwards in response to a rapidly changing world where risk is higher on the political, economic and cultural agenda than ever before.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alice O’Grady is Professor in Applied Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. With a background in drama education, her research is focused on examining the ways in which performance, participation and play activate social agency and engagement across a diverse range of contexts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice
Book Subtitle: Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World
Editors: Alice O'Grady
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63242-1
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) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63241-4Published: 29 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87506-4Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63242-1Published: 17 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 264
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies