Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures

✍ Scribed by Noyale Colin, Stefanie Sachsenmaier (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts. Scholars and artistic practitioners review historical developments of collaborative practice and reveal what it means to work together in creative contexts at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Collaborative Performance-Making in Context....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Contemporary Collaborations and Cautionary Tales....Pages 27-50
Collaboration, Democracy and the Total Artwork....Pages 51-74
I Want to Work With You Because I Can Speak for Myself: The Potential of Postconsensual Collaboration in Choreographic Practice....Pages 75-92
Since Each of Us Was Several: Collaboration in the Context of the Differential Self....Pages 93-107
Collaboration as a Mode of Labour....Pages 108-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Ten Propositions for Research-Creation....Pages 133-141
Rowing to Hilversum: Double Vision in Performance and Architecture....Pages 142-157
The Author of the Gift: The Practice of Authorship....Pages 158-178
Asking ‘What is Collaboration?’ on Behalf of Jerzy Grotowski....Pages 179-196
Te Kore and the Encounter of Performance....Pages 197-220
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Collaborations between Disabled and Non-Disabled Practitioners....Pages 221-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Positive Negatives: Or the Subtle Arts of Compromise....Pages 239-258
Messy Bits....Pages 259-279
Productive Misapprehensions: Artscross as a Cross-Cultural Collaborative Zone of Contestation of Contemporary Dance Practice....Pages 280-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-311

✦ Subjects

Performing Arts;Theatre History;Arts;Theatre and Performance Studies