Introduction / Andrew Filmer and Juliet Rufford -- What might be a Nietzschean architecture? / Dorita Hannah -- Factory, street and theatre in Brazil: two theatres / by Lina Bo Bardi Evelyn Furquim Werneck Lima -- Imaginative configurations : performance space in the global city / Klaus van den berg -- The play of place: producing space and theatre near Mumbai / Himanshu Burte -- Khor ii: an architecture-as-theatre project by TAAT / Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans -- Living between architectures: inhabiting Cliff Mclucas's built scenography / Mike Pearson and Cathy Turner -- Occupying the scene: architectural experiences in theatre and performance / Andrew Filmer -- Housing acts: performing public housing / David Roberts -- Animating structures: architectural models in performance / Natalie Rewa -- In orbit of Dead Man Friend / Alex Schweder -- Towards a tectonics of devised performance: experiments in interdisciplinary learning / teaching / Juliet Rufford -- Bringing performance into architectural pedagogy / Beth Weinstein -- The Watermill Center : an interview with Robert Wilson / Andrew Filmer.
Summary:
"Performing Architectures offers a coherent introduction to the fields of performance and contemporary architecture, exploring the significance of architecture for performance theory and theatre and performance practice. It maps the diverse relations that exist between these disciplines and demonstrates how their aims, concerns and practices overlap through shared interests in space, action and event. Through a wide range of international examples and contributions from scholars and practitioners, it offers readers an analytical survey of current practices and equips them with the tools for analyzing site-specific and immersive theatre and performance. The essays in this volume, contributed by leading theorists and practitioners from both disciplines, focus on three key sites of encounter: * Projects: examines recent trends in architecture for performance; * Practices: looks at cross-currents in artistic practice, including spatial dramaturgies, performance architectonics and performative architectures; and * Pedagogies: considers the uses of performance in architectural education and architecture in teaching performance. The volume provides an essential introduction to the ways in which performance and architecture, as socio-spatial processes and as things made or constructed, operate as generating, shaping and steering forces in understanding and performing the other"-- Provided by publisher.
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