"The Routledge Companion To Site-Specific Performance | Theatre And Performance

This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes arguments and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance. Its collected essays case studies and practitioner accounts represent a must-have resource that engages with established and emergent ideas themes and practices central to this performance sub-discipline. Acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of this field emergent through the creation and presentation of performance in non-theatre spaces the companion includes writing from scholars whose work intersects with ideas from a range of related fields including dance theatre dramaturgy human geography architecture walking studies and archaeology. Alongside theoretical discussions and case study examples a section on methods and structures allows site-specific practitioners to illustrate a range of practical approaches tasks and modes of producing site-specific performance in a range of sites. This interdisciplinary survey brings together practices and voices from a wide range of global contexts demonstrating and challenging the breadth of site-specific discourse. It provides a rich palette of perspectives approaches and ideas for students academics and researchers to draw from. |The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance | Theatre and Performance