Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice: Critical Vulnerabilities in a Precarious World

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This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that promote, encourage and embrace risky encounters in a variety of forms. The collection brings together established voices on performance and risk research and draws them into conversation with next generation academic-practitioners in a dynamic reappraisal of what it means to risk oneself through the act of making and participating in performance practice. It takes into account the work of other performance scholars for whom risk and precarity are central concerns, but seeks to move the debate forwards in response to a rapidly changing world where risk is higher on the political, economic and cultural agenda than ever before. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Introduction: Risky Aesthetics, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Edgeplay: Tactical Performances of the Unknown (Alice O’Grady)....Pages 1-29 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Theatre in the Age of Uncertainty: Memory, Technology, and Risk in Simon McBurney’s The Encounter and Robert Lepage’s 887 (Lourdes Orozco)....Pages 33-55 Putting Prejudices on the Spot and in the Spotlight: The Risks of Politically Motivated Public Space Performance Practices (Bree Hadley)....Pages 57-78 The Drama Spiral: A Decision-Making Model for Safe, Ethical, and Flexible Practice when Incorporating Personal Stories in Applied Theatre and Performance (Clark Baim)....Pages 79-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Dance with a Stranger: Torque Show’s Intimacy (2014) and the Experience of Vulnerability in Performance and Spectatorship (Matt Hargrave)....Pages 113-130 Risking Intimacy: Strategies of Vulnerability in Vertical City’s All Good Things and Trace (Bruce Barton, Pil Hansen)....Pages 131-152 Collect Yourselves!: Risk, Intimacy, and Dissonance in Intermedial Performance (Jocelyn Spence, Stuart Andrews, David Frohlich)....Pages 153-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 At the Risk of Being Sincere: Participation and Delegation in South African Contemporary Live Art (Rat Western)....Pages 179-204 Upon Awakening: Addiction, Performance, and Aesthetics of Authenticity (Zoe Zontou)....Pages 205-231 Risk in Theatrical Performances in the City: Creating Impact and Identities (André Carreira)....Pages 233-260 Back Matter ....Pages 261-264