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Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies

Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Susan Broadhurst

    1. Brunel University, West London, UK

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  2. Josephine Machon

    1. Brunel University, West London, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology (PSPT)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon
      Pages 1-6

  3. Writing and Technologies — New Epistemologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Digital Practices: New Writings of the Body

      • Susan Broadhurst
      Pages 9-22

    3. Texts from the Body

      • Tracey Warr
      Pages 23-37

    4. De-Second-Naturing: Word Unbecoming Flesh in the Work of Bodies in Flight

      • Sara Giddens, Simon Jones
      Pages 38-49

    5. The Body of the Text: The Uses of the ‘ScreenPage’ in New Media

      • Phil Ellis
      Pages 50-64

  5. Performing the Body/Performing the Text … Writing the Body/Writing the Text

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Socializing the Self: Autoethnographical Performance and the Social Signature

      • John Freeman
      Pages 119-131

    3. La Fura dels Baus’s XXX: Deviant Textualities and The Formless

      • Roberta Mock
      Pages 132-145

    4. Bodies in Suspension: The Aesthetics of Doubt in Honour Bound

      • Rachel Fensham
      Pages 146-161

    5. Translation: Words < — > Movement < — > Bits

      • Dawn Stoppiello
      Pages 162-174

  6. Corporeal Intertextualities — Body/Text/Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Speaking for Performance/Writing with the Voice

      • Fiona Templeton
      Pages 177-186

    3. Authenticity and Perception in the Making of Utah Sunshine: A Dance Theatre/Arts Film

      • Ruth Way, Russell Frampton
      Pages 187-200
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About this book

This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology.

Reviews

'A challenging, occasionally irritating, but always worthwhile entry in a growing critical field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals'

- R. Remshardt, University of Florida, Choice 2010 title

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, West London, UK

    Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon

About the editors

MOJISOLA ADEBAYO, actor, writer, teacher, director and producer RIC ALLSOPP, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Visiting Professor, Centre for Dance Education (HZT), University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany PHIL ELLIS, Lecturer in Media Arts and Television Arts, University of Plymouth, UK RACHEL FENSHAM, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Surrey, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia RUSSELL FRAMPTON, Associate Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK JOHN FREEMAN, Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama Studies, Brunel University, West London, UK SARA GIDDENS, choreographer and co-director of Bodies in Flight SIMON JONES, writer, scholar and co-director of Bodies in Flight ROBERTA MOCK, Reader in Performance, University of Plymouth, UK STELARC, Chair in Performance Art, Brunel University, West London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS Labs, University of Western Sydney, Australia DAWN STOPPIELLO, choreographer and co-founder of Troika Ranch OLU TAIWO, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, University of Winchester, UK FIONA TEMPLETON, writer, performer, and director of performance group The Relationship TRACEY WARR, Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory, Oxford Brookes University, UK RUTH WAY, Senior Lecturer and Head of Theatre and Performance, University of Plymouth, UK PAUL WOODWARD, Senior Lecturer in Drama& Physical Theatre, St.Mary's University College, UK

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