Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times [Paperback]

PREFACE ???????????????? Eating Shoes - Herzogs call

INTRODUCTION??????? Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industry

CHAPTER 1 ????????????? Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructions

CHAPTER 2 ????????????? Body - lived experience, moving, presence

CHAPTER 3 ????????????? Scenography - writing in space, materiality, aura

CHAPTER 4 ????????????? Site -city, drifting, transgression

CHAPTER 5 ????????????? Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaboration

CHAPTER 6 ????????????? Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-forming

CHAPTER 7 ????????????? 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exit

APPENDIX????????????????? Notes on contributors

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today,?Performance Making?provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.

Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 19811986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective memberlð