Audience participation : essays on inclusion in performance

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Audience participation : essays on inclusion in performance

edited by Susan Kattwinkel

(Contributions in drama and theatre studies, ISSN:0163-3821 no. 101)

Praeger, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance serves as a corrective to this. While the passive audience has long been acknowledged in works on response theory and audience studies for its contribution to the performance event, performance styles that use the audience as an active contributing creative force have been appended to the studies as merely variations on a theme. This anthology brings together essays on direct audience participation in the work of fourteen widely varied theatrical and dance artists, covering performance genres of the past and present, popular entertainment and high art. Its comprehensiveness and uniqueness make it an important contribution to the literature on theater and its many forms and facets.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Ethics of the Witness: The Participatory Dances of Cie Felix Ruckert by Joshua Abrams Reaction Tactics: Redefining Postmodern Spectator Response and Expectations by Katherine Adamenko Still Signaling through the Flames: The Living Theatre's Use of Audience Participation in the 1990s by Davie Callaghan It Matters for whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory by Uttara Asha Coorlawala Audience Participation in the Eighteenth-Century London Theatre by Judith W. Fisher The Challenge of Participation: Audiences at Living Stage Theatre Company by Susan C. Haedicke Manipulation of the Mind: Fiction in the Performances of Penn and Teller by Susan Kattwinkel Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating by Joanne Klein The Audience in Cyberspace: Audience-Performer Interactivity in Online Performances by Nina LeNoir Once upon a Time: The Story of the Pantominme Audience by Dawn Lewcock Audience at Risk: Space and Spectators at Feminist Performance by Judith Sebesta "Walking in the Steps of Your Forefathers": Locating the Actor and the Audience in Derry's Siege Pageant by Patrick Tuite Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation by Mark S Weinberg The (Oc)cult of Personality: Initiating the Audience into The Edwardian Mysteries by J. Lawton Winslade Index

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  • NCID
    BA65207391
  • ISBN
    • 0313316716
  • LCCN
    2002029893
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Westport, Conn.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 221 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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