Making Interdisciplinary Performance

Processes and Practices in Collaboration

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This collection offers an examination of and guide to interdisciplinary collaboration through the working practices of performance makers, exploring its pleasures, problems and pitfalls.The book explores contemporary working practices at the interfaces between performance and other disciplines. Focusing on collaborations between theatre makers and these ‘others’, it investigates the processes and conditions involved in the interdisciplinary. Chapters cover areas such as psychology, the environment, physical cultures, the military, healthcare, festivals and communities, architecture, pedagogy and fine dining.At a time when interdisciplinary practice is actively encouraged in the academy, this book asks what it means in practical terms to engage with artists and scholars outside of our home territories. Where does the interdisciplinary exist and what does it rely on? How do theatre makers approach and sustain these projects? What is the nature of the journey?Offering examples of unusual collaborations and arranged through 3 key areas of performance-making, this book acknowledges the difficulties of such work and that the aims of interdisciplinarity can fail, while examining how new methods and understandings can shift notions of knowledge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-15
Mått:140 x 218 x 22 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350318526

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Gianna Bouchard is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her interdisciplinary research explores the interface between medicine and performance. She is the author of Performing Specimens: Biomedical Display in Contemporary Performance (Methuen Drama, 2020).Adam J. Ledger is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely on performance practices, including The Director and Directing: Craft, Process and Aesthetic in Contemporary Theatre and on Eugenio Barba for the Great European Stage Directors series (Methuen Drama, 2018).

Recensioner i media

Making Interdisciplinary Performance brings together fascinating contributions from practitioners, scholars and educators (and those who combine these in various ways) who explore the mess, playfulness and complexity of making work across conventional boundaries. It will be of value to those who want a pragmatic and reflective account of both methods and understandings of interdisciplinarity.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Gianna Bouchard and Adam J. Ledger (University of Birmingham, UK)Part One: Journeys and Permeating1. Lessons Learned in Other People’s Classrooms Alexander Kelly (Leeds School of Arts & Third Angel, UK)2. What is the Work For?: Complexities, Collaboration and Commodification in Performance-making: Adam J. Ledger (University of Birmingham, UK)3. Crossing the Bridge: From Artist to Psychologist, Hannah Newman (University of Surrey, UK)Part Two: Performance and Other Spaces4. Performance in the Restaurant: Fine Dining and the Confluence of Disciplinary Approaches and Practices, Paul Geary (University of East Anglia, UK)5. The Productive Ward: Interdisciplinary Collaboration with/in the Disciplined Space, Alex Mermikides (King’s College London, UK)6. Notes from the In Between, Suzy Willson (Clod Ensemble, UK)7. Chodzenie-Siberia: Undisciplined Encounters on the High Street, Mehrdad Seyf (Public Works / 30 Bird, UK)Part Three: Performance and Pedagogies8. Le Laboratoire d’Etude du Mouvement (LEM) – A Space for Interdisciplinarity, Mark Evans (Coventry University, UK), Aurelian Koch (Freelance Theatre Designer, Teacher and Performer) and Amy Russell (Founder and Director of Embodied Poetics)9. Interdisciplinarity at the Bottom of the World: Designing New Performance-led Curriculum, Kathleen Williams and Meg Keating (University of Tasmania)10. Interdisciplinary Performance Pedagogy: Undoing Mastery in the Studio, Gianna Bouchard (University of Birmingham, UK)11. ‘When the Students Entered the Stage, they were actors’: Students, Educators, Artists and Spectators as Ensemble, Tatiana Chemi & Kristian Firing (Aalborg University, Denmark) Index