Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance

✍ Scribed by Amanda Stuart Fisher; James Thompson (editors)

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: caring performance, performing care
Part I Performing interrelatedness
Care ethics and improvisation: can performance care?
Towards an aesthetics of care
Performing tenderness: fluidity and reciprocity in the performance of caring in Fevered Sleep’s Men & Girls Dance
Part II Care-filled performance
Caring beyond illness: an examination of Godder’s socially engaged art and participatory dance for Parkinson’s work
Convivial theatre: care and debility in collaborations between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers
Road care
Part III Care deficits
Clean Break: a practical politics of care
Performing a museum of living memories: beholding young people’s experiences and expressions of care through oral history performance
‘Still Lives’: Syrian displacement and care in contemporary Beirut
Part IV Care as performance
Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: an ‘aesthetics of care’ through aural attention
Acts of care: applied drama, ‘sympathetic presence’ and person-centred nursing
Taking care of the laundry in care homes
Performing the ‘aesthetics of care’
References
Index