Performance and modernity : enacting change on the globalizing stage /
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance & Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing S...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021].
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| Summary: | How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance & Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance, acting, dance, music, pageantry, avantgarde provocations, film, video and networked media, this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108833066 1108833063 9781108964333 1108964338 |