Performing Proximity: Curious Intimacies

TY - BOOK

T1 - Performing Proximity

T2 - Curious Intimacies

AU - Hill, Leslie

AU - Paris, Helen

N1 - Leslie Hill and Helen Paris are Associate Professors of Performance Making at Stanford University. They are co-editors of Performance and Place, and writers, performers, filmmakers and co-directors of Curious, the award winning London-based theatre company.

PY - 2014/6/24

Y1 - 2014/6/24

N2 - How does proximity between audiences and performers change the nature of live performance? How does it feel? How long can it last? How close is too close?Exploring the rise of close encounter, immersive productions that shine a light on performer-audience relationships, this book considers the impact of space and proximity in live performance. Drawing on their experience as internationally acclaimed performance artists specializing in proximate and site-specific works, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris richly document their creative processes, performances and audience's responses in a series of illuminating case studies taken from their own artistic research. The Curious case studies span 12 years of artistic research including two major projects in the biological sciences, both funded by the Wellcome Trust as well as multiple arts organizations. This book is a practice-based research output linking and analysing artistic research that attracted hundreds of thousands of pounds in arts and science funding and was performed in 16 countries prior to publication. Relating their practice to wider issues in contemporary performance and detailing workshop exercises that aid performance making, this unique fusion of artistic and academic reflection is crucial reading for students, scholars and practitioners alike.

AB - How does proximity between audiences and performers change the nature of live performance? How does it feel? How long can it last? How close is too close?Exploring the rise of close encounter, immersive productions that shine a light on performer-audience relationships, this book considers the impact of space and proximity in live performance. Drawing on their experience as internationally acclaimed performance artists specializing in proximate and site-specific works, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris richly document their creative processes, performances and audience's responses in a series of illuminating case studies taken from their own artistic research. The Curious case studies span 12 years of artistic research including two major projects in the biological sciences, both funded by the Wellcome Trust as well as multiple arts organizations. This book is a practice-based research output linking and analysing artistic research that attracted hundreds of thousands of pounds in arts and science funding and was performed in 16 countries prior to publication. Relating their practice to wider issues in contemporary performance and detailing workshop exercises that aid performance making, this unique fusion of artistic and academic reflection is crucial reading for students, scholars and practitioners alike.

KW - Proximity

KW - Performance

KW - Performance Art

KW - Live Art

KW - Immersive Theatre

KW - Curious

KW - Leslie Hill

KW - Helen Paris

KW - phenomenology

M3 - Book

SN - 9781137328281

BT - Performing Proximity

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -