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The potentials of spaces : the theory and practice of scenography & performance

This text provides coverage of scenography & performance in opera, theatre, live art & site-specific works. It is aimed at students of directing, acting, design, installation art & visual design for performative forms. It looks at the movements of theatre making & the development of experimental processes for the theatre & creative arts
Print Book, English, 2006
Intellect Books, Bristol, UK, 2006
188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781841501376, 1841501379
71284658
Introduction : The potentials of spaces / Alison Oddey & Christine White
pt. 1. Different beginnings. Directors and designers : is there a different direction? / Pamela Howard
Different directions : the potentials of autobiographical space / Alison Oddey
Collaborative explorations : reformulating the boundaries of scenographic practice / Roma Patel
Flatness and depth : reflections / Nick Wood
pt. 2. Performance potentials. Digital dreams : sleep deprivation chamber / Lesley Ferris
Re-designing the human : motion capture and performance potentials / Katie Whitlock
Smart laboratories : new media / Christine White
A place to play : experimentation and interactions between technology and performance / Scott Palmer
pt. 3. Aesthetic visions. Scenographic avant-gardes : artistic partnerships in Canada / Natalie Rewa
Codes and overloads : the scenography of Richard Foreman / Neal Swettenham
Spatial practices : the Wooster Group's Rhode Island Trilogy / Johan Callens
Physicality and virtuality : memory, space and actor on the mediated stage / Thea Brejzek
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