Audience participation : essays on inclusion in performance
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Audience participation : essays on inclusion in performance
(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
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