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Immersive theatres : intimacy and immediacy in contemporary performance
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- Creator
- Josephine Machon
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781137019844, 1137019840, 9781137019837, 1137019832
- OCLC
- ocn849721989
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.
- Contents note continued: Bill Mitchell, Artistic Director, and Sue Hill, Associate Director of WildWorks -- Souterrain -- The Passion -- Adrian Howells -- Foot Washing for the Sole -- The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding -- Tristan Sharps, Founder and Artistic Director of dreamthinkspeak -- Before I Sleep -- The Rest Is Silence -- Introduction -- Immersive Theatre -- An immersive inheritance -- Modernism, Antonin Artaud and `total theatres' -- Happenings and Environmental Theatre -- Installation and intimacy -- Immersive technologies, sensual technologies -- Intimacy, involvement and communitas -- Immersive theatres: immediacy and intimacy today -- Immersion and interaction -- Presence as praesence -- The structure of Part One and Part Two -- pt. One Defining Immersive Theatres -- 1.Definitions and Details -- Definitions -- Defining immersiveness, immersion, immersivity -- Immersion, involvement and presence: Gaming Theory --
- Contents note continued: Immersion, involvement and praesence: defining immersive theatre -- Gauging an immersive event -- 2.Features and Finer Details: A Scale of Immersivity -- Central features of immersive practice... -- ... Audience involvement, audience evolvement -- ... Sensual worlds: immediacy, intimacy and sensuality -- ...Space, place and praesence: site-inspired practice -- ...Immersive worlds: immersive environments and the environment -- The scale of immersivity -- 3.Immersive Perspectives -- Immersive perspectives: feeling, form and function -- Immersive practice and experiential form: (syn)aesthetics -- Immersive perspectives: making-sense/sense-making -- Gilles Deleuze: `immanence' and the ludic logic of sense -- Kathryn Linn Geurts: embodied feeling, embodied knowing: `Seselelame' -- Immersive perspectives: the pleasures of the audience -- Umberto Eco and open works -- Jacques Ranciere's `emancipated spectator' -- Nicolas Bourriaud and relational aesthetics --
- Contents note continued: Immersive perspectives: the significance of space -- Juhani Pallasmaa: the sensuality of space -- Doreen Massey: the politics of space and place -- Gaston Bachelard: the poetics of space -- Immersive theatres: audience, space, duration, sensation -- pt. Two Immersion, Intimacy and Immediacy in Practice -- Introduction -- Conversations one -- Michael Morris of Artangel -- Immersive theatres -- intimacy, immediacy, transformation -- Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk -- Immersive theatres -- intimacy, immediacy, imagination -- Conversations two -- Bruce Gladwin of Back To Back Theatre -- The intimate (im)mediacy of sound -- Lundahl & Seitl -- Challenging the (im)mediate interface -- Silvia Mercuriali -- Immersive imaginations -- the intimate and (im)mediate -- Conversations three -- Tassos Stevens of Coney -- Playing with(in) the `what is' and `what if' -- Samantha Holdsworth of Nimble Fish -- Immersivity and cultural production -- `permission to play' --
- Contents note continued: Punchdrunk Enrichment -- Immersion, enrichment and empowerment -- Conversations four -- Louise Ann Wilson -- Immersed in the environment -- `off the beaten track' -- Bill Mitchell and Sue Hill of WildWorks -- Immersive communitas -- space, place and people -- Conversations five -- Adrian Howells -- The epic in the intimate -- Tristan Sharps of dreamthinkspeak -- The intimate in the epic