Performing Nature

The Editors: Gabriella Giannachi is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her specialist areas include performance, new media theatre and bio-art. She is co-editor, with Mary Luckhurst, of On Directing (1999), co-author, with Nick Kaye, of Staging the Post-Avant-Garde (2002), and author of Virtual Theatres (2004) and Politics – New Media – Theatre: Life (2006). She is Co-Director of the Centre for Intermedia at Exeter University.Nigel Stewart is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is a dance artist and scholar with interests in movement analysis, notation, and environmental, hermeneutic and phenomenological aesthetics. He has worked extensively both nationally and internationally as a choreographer, dancer and director, and has published articles in several major journals and books.

• Contents: Gabriella Giannachi/Nigel Stewart: Ecology, Nature and the Arts Spectacle, World, Environment, Void – Baz Kershaw: The Ecologies of Performance: On Biospheres and Theatres – John Adams: Performative Locations: Wilderness Space and Place in Early Film – Una Chaudhuri: Animal Geographies: Zooësis and the Space of Modern Drama – Mike Pearson: P-P-P-Pick Up a Penguin: Men and Animals in Antarctic Exploration – Geraldine Harris: Turing Test: doo-cot Theatre Company’s Frankenstein: The Final Blasphemy and the ‘limits of the (post)human’ – Andrew Quick: The Space Between: Disorienting Landscape in the Photographic Works of Willie Doherty – Elaine Aston: ‘A Licence to Kill’: Caryl Churchill’s Socialist-Feminist ‘Ideas of Nature’ – Bronislaw Szerszynski: Beating the Unbound: Political Theatre in the Laboratory Without Walls – Wallace Heim: Navigating Voices – Andra McCartney: Performing Soundwalks for Journées sonores, canal de Lachine – Valerie A. Briginshaw: From Performance through Narrative to Interconnected Subjectivities – Enzo Cozzi: Chilean Sacred Dancers and Western Secular Magicians: Two Paratheatrical Ecologies of Mind – Nick Kaye: Performed Ecologies: Body, Material, Architecture – Frances Bronet: Beating a Path: Designing in the Posture of Body – Johannes Birringer: Environments for Interactive Dance – Sondra Fraleigh: Spacetime and Mud in Butoh – Theresa J. May: Re-Membering the Mountain: Grotowski’s Deep Ecology – Nigel Stewart: Dancing the Time of Place: Fieldwork, Phenomenology and Nature’s Choreography – Gabriella Giannachi: The Museum of Voids – Alan Read: Play-Ground-Nature-Table – Wallace Heim: Performance and Ecology: A Reader’s Guide.