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Theatre Institutions in Crisisexamines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is understood, organised, delivered, and received.Balme and Fisher bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies.This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a particular interest in European theatre and its networks.Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Theatre Institutions in Crisisexamines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust research into the complex configuration of factors at work that are leading to significant shifts in the way theatre is understood, organised, delivered, and received.Balme and Fisher bring together scholars from different disciplines and countries across Europe to examine what factors can be said to be most common to the institutional crisis of European theatre today. The methods employed are drawn from systems theory, social-scientific approaches, economics and statistics, theatre and performance, and other interpretative approaches (hermeneutics), and labour studies.This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and practitioners working in the fields of performance and theatre studies. It will be particularly relevant to researchers with a particular interest in European theatre and its networks.Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

An indispensable guide that shows companies how to treat data as a strategic assetOrganizations set their business strategy and direction based on information that is available to executives. The Data Asset provides guidance for not only building the business case for data quality and data governance, but also for developing methodologies and processes that will enable your organization to better treat its data as a strategic asset.Part of Wiley's SAS Business Series, this book looks at Business Case Building; Maturity Model and Organization Capabilities; 7-Step Programmatic Approach for Success; and Technologies Required for Effective Data Quality and Data Governance and, within these areas, covers Risk mitigationCost controlRevenue optimizationUndisciplined and reactive organizationsProactive organizationsAnalysis, improvement, and control technologyWhether you're a business manager or an IT professional, The Data Asset reveals the methodology and technology needed to approach successful data quality and data governance initiatives on an enterprise scale.

In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre, performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.

In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary theatre, performance studies, and scholarship around visual cultures. Beyond Failure explores what it means for our understanding not just of theatrical practice but of human social and cultural activity more broadly. The essays in this volume tackle contemporary debates around the theory and poetics of failure, suggesting that in the absence of success can be found a defiance and hopefulness that points to new ways of knowing and being in the world. Beyond Failure offers a unique and engaging approach for students and practitioners interested not only in the impact of failure on the stage, but what it means for wider social and cultural debates.

This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually entwining history was to have a profound influence on the development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre, Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to government by offering close readings of well-known religious, moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role, purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the theatre'.

This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually entwining history was to have a profound influence on the development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre, Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to government by offering close readings of well-known religious, moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role, purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the theatre'.

This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners.

This book combines performance analysis with contemporary political philosophy to advance new ways of understanding both political performance and the performativity of the politics of the street. Our times are pre-eminently political times and have drawn radical responses from many theatre and performance practitioners.

Strengthen your pupils’ understanding

The Exploring maths Class Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher’s Book and are designed to help strengthen pupils’ understanding.

 

Includes activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world context.

 

Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help pupils work independently.

 

3 levels of differentiation in each exercise help you pitch work at the right level.

 

Specific Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills.

Strengthen your pupils’ understanding

 

 

The Exploring maths Class Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher’s Book and are designed to help strengthen pupils’ understanding.

 

Includes activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world context.

 

Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help pupils work independently.

 

3 levels of differentiation in each exercise help you pitch work at the right level.

 

Specific Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills.

 

 “How well are you doing?” levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see what they need to do to improve.

 

Interesting facts inform pupils about the cultural and social roots of maths.

 

Consolidating pupils’ learning

 

The Exploring maths Home Books support and consolidate the work carried out in class.

 

Each lesson has a homework task reinforcing what’s been taught in class.

 

Each homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson, so that they can apply it to the questions.

 

Accessible language ensures that pupils can work without adult support.

 

Consolidating pupils’ learning

 

The Exploring maths Home Books support and consolidate the work carried out in class.

 

Each lesson has a homework task reinforcing what’s been taught in class.

 

Each homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson, so that they can apply it to the questions.

 

Accessible language ensures that pupils can work without adult support.

 

Strengthen your pupils’ understanding

 

 

The Exploring maths Class Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher’s Book and are designed to help strengthen pupils’ understanding.

 

Includes activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world context.

 

Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help pupils work independently.

 

3 levels of differentiation in each exercise help you pitch work at the right level.

 

Specific Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills.

 

 “How well are you doing?” levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see what they need to do to improve.

 

Interesting facts inform pupils about the cultural and social roots of maths.

 

Consolidating pupils’ learning

 

The Exploring maths Home Books support and consolidate the work carried out in class.

 

Each lesson has a homework task reinforcing what’s been taught in class.

 

Each homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson, so that they can apply it to the questions.

 

Accessible language ensures that pupils can work without adult support.

 

 

 

Strengthen your pupils’ understanding

 

 

The Exploring maths Class Books are organised into units to accompany the Teacher’s Book and are designed to help strengthen pupils’ understanding.

 

Includes activities, games and investigations that put maths in a real world context.

 

Worked examples at the beginning of each lesson help pupils work independently.

 

3 levels of differentiation in each exercise help you pitch work at the right level.

 

Specific Functional Skills tasks focus on the important process skills.

 

 “How well are you doing?” levelled self-assessment tests help pupils see what they need to do to improve.

 

Interesting facts inform pupils about the cultural and social roots of maths.

 

 

 

Consolidating pupils’ learning

 

The Exploring maths Home Books support and consolidate the work carried out in class.

 

Each lesson has a homework task reinforcing what’s been taught in class.

 

Each homework task reminds pupils what they have learned in the lesson, so that they can apply it to the questions.

 

Accessible language ensures that pupils can work without adult support.

 

The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and advanced students encountering Foucault’s work for the first time. The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of Foucault’s relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our present cultural moment – it rereads his profound engagement with questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a ‘theatrical’ Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the ‘performance turn’ to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of reading Foucault’s oeuvre ‘theatrically’.

The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both experienced researchers and advanced students encountering Foucault’s work for the first time. The introduction sets out a thorough and informative assessment of Foucault’s relevance to theatre and performance studies and to our present cultural moment – it rereads his profound engagement with questions of truth, power and politics, in light of previously unknown writings and lectures set in relation to current political and cultural concerns. Unique to this volume is the discovery of a ‘theatrical’ Foucault - the profound affinity of his thinking with questions of performativity. This discovery makes accessible the ‘performance turn’ to readers of Foucault, while opening up ways of reading Foucault’s oeuvre ‘theatrically’.

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art’s politics is limited to a recondite space of ‘autonomous resistance’. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art’s exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to ‘effect’ to offer a nuanced account of art’s political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the ‘new’ through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art’s politics is limited to a recondite space of ‘autonomous resistance’. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art’s exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to ‘effect’ to offer a nuanced account of art’s political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the ‘new’ through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.