Politics of Process in Contemporary Performance Making : A Practice-Philosophical View
Politics of Process in Contemporary Performance Making : A Practice-Philosophical View
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Author(s): Sachsenmaier, Stefanie
ISBN No.: 9781350295230
Pages: 240
Year: 202605
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 165.60
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

This book offers an an innovative re-examination of the notion of 'process' in contemporary performance-making, drawing on insights from the related fields of philosophy, practice theory and the social sciences. Through a lens of activism, it explores the socio-political potential of performance-process as a means to create vital new social agendas informed by resistance, resilience, transformative change and prefigurative practices, and including issues such as body politics, wellbeing, justice and the environment. En route, it engages with socio-political issues currently identified as needing transformative change, including those initiated by the Black Lives Matter movement and the environmental crisis, and addresses how further social change might be initiated at the processual level. The book integrates the voices of various performance practitioners by including materials gathered through recorded conversations, carefully balancing diverse perspectives. These practitioners include Australia-based dance company Marrugeku; Brazil-based GRUPO CENA 11; Embros Theatre and Green Park café in Greece; choreographer Dana Yahalomi based in Israel; Yup'ik womxn and choreographer, Alaska-born and NYC-based Emily Johnson; Berlin-based Rimini Protokoll Through this and the author's own perspectives on how performance practice relates to social and political issues, it facilitates a new conversation around the processual as political.


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