Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Performance of the Senses André Lepecki and Sally Banes Part I: Theory and Practice 2. Rasaesthetics Richard Schechner 3. Olfactory Performances Sally Banes 4. Unearthing Kinesthesia: Groping Among Cross-Cultural Models of the Senses in Performance Deidre Sklar 5. Senses and Silence in Actor Training and Performance Phillip Zarrilli 6. Making Sense of Food in Performance: the Table and the Stage Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Part II: History 7. Edible Performance: feasting and festivity in Early Tudor Entertainment Denise E. Cole 8. Incense & Decadents: Symbolist Theatre’s Use of Scent Mary Fleischer 9. Touching Realism: Illusionism, Actuality, and the Theatrical Sensorium Stanton B. Garner, Jr. Part III: Contemporary Performance 10. Guiding Somatic Responses Within Performative Structures: Contemporary Live Art and Sensorial Perception Stephen Di Benedetto 11. Containment + Contamination: a Performance Landscape for the Senses at PQ03 Dorita Hannah 12. Seeing Nothing: Now Hear This... Martin Welton 13. A Doubly "Environmental" Sensorium: Omaha Magic Theatre’s Sea of Forms Maya E. Roth 14. Tangible Acts: Touch Performances Jennifer Fisher Part IV: Case Studies 15. Touching the Sun on the Reservation Anita Gonzalez 16. Performers, Spectators, Cannibals. Making Sense of Theatrical Consumption. Kerrie Schaefer 17. Indonesian Theatre and Its Double: Putu Wijaya Paints a Theatre of Mental Terror Cobina Gillitt 18. Artaud’s Anatomy Allen Weiss List of contributors Index
Biography
Banes, Sally; Lepecki, Andre
