Rachel Dickstein

Towards Embodied Performance

Directing and the Art of Composition

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Produktbeschreibung

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous embodied performance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781032377728
• ISBN-10: 1032377720
• Artikelnr.: 70146891

Autorenporträt

Rachel Dickstein is Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre and Performance at Purchase College, SUNY. She is a director, writer, and choreographer of opera, theatre, and dance-based performance, as well as the founding Artistic Director of the Obie-winning theatre company Ripe Time. Recent work includes the world premieres of Compass (ASU Gammage), Haruki Murakami's Sleep (BAM Next Wave Festival, Yale Rep, Annenberg), The World Is Round (BAM-Fisher, Obie Award), and Septimus and Clarissa (Drama Desk, Drama League nominations, BPAC). Rachel also directs plays, chamber opera, and new music theatre. Recent work includes Blood Moon (Beth Morrison Projects, Prototype), Desire (with Jack Quartet, Miller Theatre, Columbia), Thumbprint (LA Opera, Prototype), and In What Language? (Asia Society, REDCAT, PICA TBA Festival).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Core Elements of Embodied Performance 1. Space 2. Body 3. Time
4. Language 5. Action Part 2: Directing as Composition-Building Learning
from models of cross disciplinary performance investigation 6. Seeing,
Listening, Experiencing: Immersive installations of Visual Art, Sound art,
and media/ video 7. Directing the Composition: Dance as Theatre and Theatre
as Dance 8. Embodying Music: Composers and Directors re-envisioning Opera
and New Music Part III: Building your own Embodied Performance 9. Exercises
for creating in the studio and teaching/learning in the classroom