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A Performance Cosmology Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past
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Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics.
Contributors include: Philip Auslander, Rustom Bharucha, Tim Etchells, Jane Goodall,... Read more
Introduction: Into the Rose Garden Part 1: Intimate Conversations: Ways of Working with the Centre for Performance Research 1.1 Tools for Conviviality Claire Macdonald 1.2 Eight things I know now that I didn’t know before Anna Fenemore 1.3 Eye and Ear, Foot and Mouth: Mapping Performance in three journeys and one withdrawal Heike Roms 1.4 Express Trains: Working at CPR Ric Allsopp 1.5 Singing Praise Frankie Armstrong 1.6 Ten Things I Love about You Joan Mills 1.7 A Little Big Boots: on participating in Summer Shift 2004 Helen Iball 1.8 Performances of Truth Sibylle Peters 1.9 Pro-found and Impossible Ailsa Richardson 1.10 A Memory or Two Before I Know it… Jill Greenhalgh 1.11 The Nature and Culture of Performance Paul Allain 1.12 Ten Fragments Franc Chamberlain 1.13 The Courage to Create: Food, Alchemy, Objects and Performance: Selected interviews with Richard Gough Part 2: Testimony from the Future Richard Schechner Interviewed by Richard Gough A River of Senses and a Touch of Otherness Enzo Cozzi Declaration of Poetic Disobedience Guillermo Gomez-Pena Interactive Environments and Digital Perception Johannes Birringer AnimalCam: Ocularcentrism and Non-Human Performance Philip Auslander Global Feeling: (Almost) All You Need is Love Jon McKenzie Writing (After) the Event: Notes on Appearance, Passage and Hope David Williams The scribes of Merlin 'An obscure lecture' Matthew Goulish What I Can't Recall Rebecca Schneider Stones in the Mind Jane Goodall Marking Time Mike Pearson Aporias of Ekphrasis: The Performance Archive – Archiving the Performance Christopher Balme Legwork -- Thinking Showing Doing Joe Kelleher Who knows - and who cares - about performance mastery? Susan Melrose Incomplete Alphabet Tim Etchells Hounded Buildings: Site, Performance and Traumatic Memory Dragan Klaic The Memory of Promise: Theatre and the Ethic of the Future Adrian Kear Open Wounds Alphonso Lingis Ramblers Associations Mick Wallis Witnessing the Witness Freddie Rokem The Effect Produced Patrice Pavis Dear Friends and Family Laurie Beth Clark The Writing of the Event Adrian Heathfield An Untenable Identity Formation: Eleutheria in 8 parts Michael Peterson Eleutheromania: Performance Art and the war on terror Edward Scheer Time, Space, Topography Michal Kobialka Arrested Life: A Sadness Without an Object Alan Read Delirium: Nostalgia, Theatre and Public Space Paul Carter Why There is Wind Paul Rae Rustom Bharucha Interviewed by Richard Gough Part 3: Evidence of the Past 3.1 From the Laboratory to the Centre: History, Training, the Academy and the Book - Selected Interviews with Richard Gough 3.2 Perfect Time: Imperfect Tense. An Object Exercise in Conditional Remembrance Richard Gough 3.3 Bibliophobia Daniel Watt 3.4 Resource Centre Time/Space Collapse Antony Pickthall 3.5 Chronology of 30 years of productions, festivals, conferences, workshops and publications.
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Christie, Judie
'The diversity of texts and images is careful and generous... There is a pleasing and intelligent sense of resistance in this book and it is timely and helpful.' - Performance Paradigm
