The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia

Author : Josephine Machon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351367783

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The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia by Josephine Machon Pdf

The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company’s work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk’s existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world’s foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn from unrivalled access to the collective memory and archives of their core creative team. The playful encyclopaedic format, much like a Punchdrunk masked show, invites readers to create their own journey through the ideas, aesthetics, contexts, and practices that underpin Punchdrunk’s work. Interjections from Felix Barrett, Stephen Dobbie, Maxine Doyle, Peter Higgin, Beatrice Minns, Colin Nightingale and Livi Vaughan, among others, fill out the picture with in-depth reflections. Charting Punchdrunk’s rise from the fringe to the mainstream, this encyclopaedia records the founding principles and mission of the company, documenting its evolving creative process and operational structures. It has been compiled to be useful to scholars and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, from secondary level through to doctoral research, and is intended for those with a fascination for theatre in general and immersive work in particular. Ultimately it is written for those who have dared to come play with Punchdrunk across the years. It is also offered to the curious; those adventurers ready and waiting to be immersed in Punchdrunk worlds.

Author : Emma Cole
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031430671

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Punchdrunk on the Classics by Emma Cole Pdf

Author : Kari Barclay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031312229

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Directing Desire by Kari Barclay Pdf

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed from a grassroots movement in experimental and regional theaters into a best practice accepted in Hollywood and on Broadway. Today, intimacy choreographers have become a veritable "intimacy industry" in the cultural sphere, sparking attention from Rolling Stone to The New York Times to the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. This book analyzes the forces that have led to intimacy choreography’s meteoric rise and asks what implications the field has for theater practice more broadly. Building a theoretical framework for intimacy directing, Directing Desire also strives to reorient the conversation in the field so that artists understand not only best practices in consent but also intersectional frameworks that expand and rework consent.

Author : Eleanor Chadwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000994698

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Historically Responsive Storytelling by Eleanor Chadwick Pdf

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview. This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical inheritance and discusses various practitioners and companies whose work reflects and recapitulates ideas, approaches, and structures original to theatre’s ritual roots. Drawing together a range of topics and examples from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, Chadwick focuses in on a theatrical language which includes an emphasis on the psychosomatic, the non-linear, the symbolic, the liminal, the collective, and the sacred. This interdisciplinary work draws on approaches from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, historical and cognitive phenomenology, and neuroscience, making the case for the significance of historically responsive modes in theatre practice and more widely in our society and culture. Eleanor

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.,Meredith Conti
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786838469

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Theatre and the Macabre by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.,Meredith Conti Pdf

The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol; from Hell Houses to German Trauerspiel; from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dark rides, haunted mothers and haunting children, dances of death and dismembered bodies. From Japan to Australia to England to the United States, the global macabre is framed and juxtaposed to understand how the theatre brings us face to face with the deathly and the horrific.

Author : Vida L. Midgelow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199397006

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The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance by Vida L. Midgelow Pdf

From the dance floor of a tango club to group therapy classes, from ballet to community theatre, improvised dance is everywhere. For some dance artists, improvisation is one of many approaches within the choreographic process. For others, it is a performance form in its own right. And while it has long been practiced, it is only within the last twenty years that dance improvisation has become a topic of critical inquiry. With The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance, dancer, teacher, and editor Vida L. Midgelow provides a cutting-edge volume on dance improvisation in all its facets. Expanding beyond conventional dance frameworks, this handbook looks at the ways that dance improvisation practices reflect our ability to adapt, communicate, and respond to our environment. Throughout the handbook, case studies from a variety of disciplines showcase the role of individual agency and collective relationships in improvisation, not just to dancers but to people of all backgrounds and abilities. In doing so, chapters celebrate all forms of improvisation, and unravel the ways that this kind of movement informs understandings of history, socio-cultural conditions, lived experience, cognition, and technologies.

Author : L.E. Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781982140342

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Planning Your Escape by L.E. Hall Pdf

Never get stuck inside an escape room again, with this strategy guidebook to beating your favorite immersive interactive game—from a well-known game designer and puzzle enthusiast Chances are you have visited an escape room, whether for a birthday party, a corporate team-building exercise, or as a weekend excursion with your friends. But what does it take to maximize your chances of solving the puzzles, while ensuring everyone has a good time along the way? Planning Your Escape is the perfect guide to making sure you never get stuck in another escape room again. Game designer extraordinaire Laura Hall has all the best strategies for every room you might encounter, so your team can function like a well-oiled machine. This guide offers: -A history of puzzles and experiential entertainment, from the 4,000-year-old dexterity puzzles of Mohenjo-daro to the spectacle of immersive theater installations like Secret Cinema, Meow Wolf, and Sleep No More; -Different types of escape rooms, and solvable examples of the common puzzles they employ; -Common escape room player personality types, and how best to work with them; and -Advice for constructing your own escape rooms and puzzle hunts Bringing in a cast of experts, Planning Your Escape is the must-have strategy book for any escape room enthusiast, puzzle fan, and aspiring experience designer. Get ready to wow your friends and impress your co-workers with your new skills, and never enter a room you can’t get out of again!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350288393

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Adventures Across Space and Time by Anonim Pdf

Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime. Adventures Across Space and Time presents classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi. This innovative anthology addresses Doctor Who's showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies and collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the 'wokeness' of the Doctor, fan media including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers around the world.

Author : Carina E. I. Westling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350101975

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Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds by Carina E. I. Westling Pdf

Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man besides theatrical works such as Faust, The Duchess of Malfi and Kabeiroi, and cross-platform productions like The Moon Slave, The Borough and The Oracles, the book presents an original framework for understanding immersion in theatrical and mixed reality experiences. Central to the book is a study of how immersive experience is produced in interaction with physical and digital scenography for participatory audiences. Through ethnographies of the company, their designers, actors, producers and audiences, the book interrogates the relationship between the aesthetics of interaction and the experience of immersion in Punchdrunk's work. The theoretical framework that the book introduces affords analyses of material cultures and the influence of technology on interaction design in theatre and beyond, and offers a blueprint for next-generation immersive design and scenography for interactive multimedia environments.

Author : Josephine Machon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137019851

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Immersive Theatres by Josephine Machon Pdf

This comprehensive text is the first survey to explore the theory, history and practice of immersive theatre. Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, Josephine Machon shares her wealth of expertise in the field of contemporary performance, inviting the reader to immerse themselves within this abundantly illustrated text. The first section of the book introduces concepts of immersion, situating them within a historical context and establishing a clear critical vocabulary for discussion. The second section then presents contributions from a wealth of immersive artists. Assuming no prior knowledge with its critical commentary, this is a rich resource for lecturers and students at all levels and internationally, including undergraduates and post-graduates, as well as practitioners and researchers of contemporary performance. This would also be an ideal text for general enthusiasts and readers with an interest in immersive theatre.

Author : D. Leigh,C.M. Pare,J. Marks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401159135

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A Concise Encyclopaedia of Psychiatry by D. Leigh,C.M. Pare,J. Marks Pdf

Psychiatry is a discipline that crosses many frontiers, involving a know ledge of the anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the nervous system, of general medicine, of sociology, of psychology, of the law and of all those subjects which comprise the behavioural sciences. Moreover, in the field of psychiatry the explosion of knowledge has led to an increase in special ization in sub-disciplines. To all those interested in psychiatry this diversity causes real problems. They may have to consult a wide variety of sources before finding the answer to what may be in fact a relatively simple question. This encyclopaedia aims at providing straightforward answers to the many questions that may arise. The editors wish to stress that this is not intended to be an advanced treatise on the minutiae of the subject. There will be entries with the contents of which some experts may disagree; others which may seem to err on the side of simplicity or of dog matism. For whatever imperfections there may be, the editors take full responsibility. They hope that no major topics have been omitted and that the coverage is sufficiently comprehensive as to provide the reader, whether he be directly involved in psychiatry or not, with a useful and practical guide to the subject.

Author : M.R. Shetty
Publisher : Pentagon Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Couplets
ISBN : 8182741254

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Encyclopaedia Of Quotable Couplets by M.R. Shetty Pdf

Author : S. R. Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : 8170995647

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Encyclopaedia of Sports Health and Physical Education by S. R. Sharma Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:66470419

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The British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jason Warren
Publisher : Making Theatre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Participatory theater
ISBN : 1848424450

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Creating Worlds by Jason Warren Pdf

A new text on immersive theater.