Spaces
Performance happens in space and time and because of this space is a central theme or question in performance (Levan, 2005, p. 120). Bodies, texts, objects, histories, and worlds move, breathe, shift, and change according to their location in space. And w
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TEACHING WRITING Volume 5 Series Editor Patricia Leavy USA International Editorial Board Liza Ann Acosta, North Park University, USA Sandra L. Faulkner, Bowling Green State University, USA Lee Gutkind, Arizona State University, USA Anne Harris, Monash University, Australia Yvonna S. Lincoln, Texas A&M University, USA David Manderson, University of West Scotland, UK Ronald Pelias, Southern Illinois University, USA Rita Rud, Washington State University, USA Candace Stout, The Ohio State University, USA Jonathan Wyatt, The University of Edinburgh, UK Scope The Teaching Writing series publishes concise instructional writing guides. Series books each focus on a different subject area, discipline or type of writing. The books are intended to be used in undergraduate and graduate courses across the disciplines and can also be read by individual researchers or students engaged in thesis work. Series authors must have a demonstrated publishing record and must hold a PhD, MFA or the equivalent. Please email queries to the series editor at [email protected]
Writing for Performance
Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones Monash University, Australia
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ISBN: 978-94-6300-592-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-593-7 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-594-4 (e-book)
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PRAISE FOR WRTING FOR PERFORMANCE
“What a welcome, insightful and much-needed book Writing for Performance is. Authors Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones bring us to an integrated notion of writing that is embodied, felt, breathed and flung from stage to page and back again. This important book is thrilling in both its theorizing and its usefulness as it sets out potential roadmaps of how we can conjure writing daring to explore the heat and sparks of race, class, sex and gender. Writing for Performance will become a crucial text for the creation of the performance and theater that the 21st Century will need.” – Tim Miller, artist and author of Body Blows: Six Performances and 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays and Travels “No prescriptions here. Instead, a thoughtful and pedagogical rumination on the ideas of writing and performance, ideas which often materialize into pleasing products, to be sure, but whose wondrous processes can remain clandestine. In the hands of this creative duo, however, we find a deep and abiding respect for the many creative processes that
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