Performed ethnography and communication : improvisation and embodied experience / D. Soyini Madison.

Author/creator Madison, D. Soyini author.
Format Electronic
PublicationMilton Park, Abingon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource (xxxi, 202 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Embodied technique and practice -- Technique -- Practice -- Improvisation -- The inherited body we bring to performance -- Key concepts in improvisation -- Devised theatre -- Ethnographic data and process -- Suggested stages of devised performance -- Interview with Honey Pot Performance -- Movement and scenes of body work -- Efforts and factors from Laban/Bartenieff -- The 5 Rhythms from Gariel Roth -- Newspaper theater from Augusto Boal -- The value of oral history and life story -- Who owns the story? -- Interview with E. Patrick Johnson -- Oral narrative as permission, pedagogy, and provocation -- The narrative/narrated event -- The anatomy of emotion: the brain in performance -- Proprioception -- Mirror neurons and simulation theory -- Performing oral history and life story -- Solo performance -- Beginning questions -- Viewpoints in rehearsal -- Plastiques -- Appendix 1: Example of full poetic transcription and analysis -- Appendix 2: Illustration of creativity and the brain -- Appendix 3: Example of full script (1) Newspaper theatre, (2) Movement and myth, (3) Oral history and performance -- Appendix 4: Full interview with E. Patrick Johnson.
Abstract Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections: "Embodied technique and practice," which addresses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work to consider what makes bodies move, sound, behave, mean, or appear differently, and the effects of these differences on performance. "Oral history and personal narrative performance," which is concerned with the ways personal stories and histories might be transformed into public events, looking at questions of perspective, ownership, and reception. Including specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises, and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnography, and devised and digital performance, Performed Ethnography and Communication represents an invaluable resource for today's student of performance studies, communication studies or cultural studies
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
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