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Book Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize
Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites of imaginative exchange and transformative experience and it discusses the social, political and ethical dimensions of performance design. The international range of contributors and case studies provide clear perspectives on why scenographic design has become a central consideration for performance makers today.
The extended introduction defines the characteristics of 21st-century scenography and examines the scope and potentials of this new field. Across five sections, the volume provides examples and case studies which richly illustrate the scope of contempo
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[An] excellent and comprehensive collection [that's] suitable as introduction for undergraduates and for developing ideas, histories and approaches for researchers. * Paul Geary, University of Birmingham, UK *
The collection of essays make for an engaging and accessible examination of the myriad possibilities of the way scenography can be framed. These topics will certainly act as a catalyst for discussions on the ways in which my students will contextualise their own practice. * Andy Hurst, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK *
An excellent, contemporary introduction to scenography. * Kit Lane, University of Derby, UK *
Table of Contents
Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword – Arnold Aronson Introducing ‘Expanded’ Scenography - Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer Section 1: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE 1 Devices of Wonder: globalizing technologies in the process of scenography - Christopher Baugh (University of Leeds, UK) 2 Screen Space: Bearing Witness & Performing Resistance - Dorita Hannah (University of Tasmania, Australia) Section 2: ARCHITECTURAL SPACE 3 Between Symbolic Representation and New Critical Realism: Architecture as Scenography and Scenography as Architecture - Thea Brejzek (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) 4 City as Site: Street Performance and Site Permeability during the Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil, Chile, 2012-2015 - Marcela Oteiza (Wesleyan University, CT, USA) Section 3: AGENCY 5 Scenography Matters: Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique - Jane Collins (University of the Arts, London, UK) and Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, NJ, USA) 6 Scenographic Agency: A Showing-doing and a Responsibility for Showing-doing - Kathleen Irwin (University of Regina, Canada) 7 Thinking that Matters: Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Performance Design - Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Section 4: AUDIENCES 8 Audience Immersion, Mindfulness and the Experience of Scenography - David Shearing (University of Leeds, UK) 9 Cognitive Approaches to Performance Design, or How the Dead Materialize and Other Spectacular Design Solutions - Stephen Di Benedetto (University of Miami, FL, USA) Section 5: MATERIALITY 10 The Matter of Water: Bodily Experience of Scenography in Contemporary Spectacle - Nebojša Tabacki (University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany) 11 Ecologies of Autism: Vibrant Space in
Imagining Autism - Melissa Trimingham (University of Kent, UK) Bibliography Index
