| Applied Theatre: Aesthetics Contributor(s): White, Gareth (Author), Preston, Sheila (Editor), Balfour, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 147251355X ISBN-13: 9781472513557 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 792.01 |
| LCCN: 2014037340 |
| Series: Applied Theatre |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. Yet practitioners of applied arts know that their work is not reducible to social work, therapy or education. Reconciling the simultaneous autonomy and heteronomy of art is the problem of aesthetics in applied arts. Gareth White's introductory essay reviews the field, and proposes an interdisciplinary approach that builds on new developments in evolutionary, cognitive and neuro-aesthetics alongside the politics of art. It addresses the complexities of art and the aesthetic as everyday behaviours and responses. The second part of the book is made up of essays from leading experts and new voices in the practice and theory of applied performance, reflecting on the key problematics of applying performance with non-performers. New and innovative practice is described and interrogated, and fresh thinking is introduced in response to perennial problems. |
Contributor Bio(s): Preston, Sheila: - Sheila Preston is Head of Performing Arts at the University of East London, UK. Previously she was a senior lecturer in Applied Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She co-edited with Tim Prentki The Applied Theatre Reader (Routledge, 2009).Balfour, Michael: - Professor Michael St Clair Balfour is the Chair of Applied and Social Theatre in the Faculty of Education at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His publications include Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters (2012), Performance: In Place of War, with J. Thompson and J. Hughes (2009), Drama as Social Intervention, with J. Somers (2006), and Prison Theatre: Theory and Practice, (2004). He is co-editor with Sheila Preston of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Applied Theatre series. |