Site-Specific Performance

Site-specific performance – acts of theatre and performative events at landscape locations, in village streets, in urban situations. In houses, chapels, barns, disused factories, railway stations; on hillsides, in forest clearings, underwater. At the scale of civil engineering; as intimate as a guided walk. Leading theatre artist and scholar Mike Pearson draws upon thirty years practical experience, proposing original approaches to the creation and study of performance outside the auditorium. In this book he suggests organizing principles, innovative strategies, methods and exercises for making theatre in a variety of contexts and locations, and through examples, case studies and projects develops distinctive theoretical insights into the relationship of site and performance, scenario and scenography. This book encourages practical initiatives in the conception, devising and staging of performances, while also recommending effective models for its critical appreciation.

Pearson, Mike

Humor & Entertainment

Red Globe Press

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Palgrave

Updated and illustrated with more than 900 photos, the third edition of Illini Legends, Lists, and Lore chronicles the history of University of Illinois varsity athletics since its recognized beginnings in 1883. Red Grange and Tonja Buford, George Huff and the Flying Illini--Mike Pearson takes readers on a year-by-year journey, encapsulating the great events and transcendent athletes, heroes, coaches, administrators, and venues that make up Illini sports history. This new edition also includes expanded information on women's athletics and a new section on the university's disabled athletes. Finally, Pearson once again provides a revised treasure trove of statistics sure to settle old arguments and spark new debates. Published as part of the university's sesquicentennial celebration, Illini Legends, Lists, and Lore puts orange and blue fans in the front row for over 130 years of sports thrills and human drama.

Illini Legends, Lists, and Lore

History

Americas

University of Illinois Press

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Theatre/Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Shanks, Michael

Archaeology

Routledge

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter Performance Studies)

In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local and family history.Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist and solo-performer, returns to the landscape of his childhood – off the beaten track in Lincolnshire – and uses it as a mnemonic to reflect widely upon performance theory and practice. Rather than focusing on author, period and genre as is conventional in the study of drama, the book takes region as its optic, acknowledging the affective ties between people and place. Offering new approaches to the study of performance, Pearson integrates intensely personal narrative with analytical reflection, juxtaposing anecdote with theoretical insight, dramatic text with interdisciplinary perception. The performances, ranging from folk drama to contemporary site-specific work, are seen in the light of their relationship to their cultural and physical environment.

University of Exeter Press

In Comes I explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from archaeology, geomorphology, folklore, and local and family history.Mike Pearson, a leading theatre artist and solo-performer, returns to the landscape of his childhood – off the beaten track in Lincolnshire – and uses it as a mnemonic to reflect widely upon performance theory and practice. Rather than focusing on author, period and genre as is conventional in the study of drama, the book takes region as its optic, acknowledging the affective ties between people and place. Offering new approaches to the study of performance, Pearson integrates intensely personal narrative with analytical reflection, juxtaposing anecdote with theoretical insight, dramatic text with interdisciplinary perception. The performances, ranging from folk drama to contemporary site-specific work, are seen in the light of their relationship to their cultural and physical environment.

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City (Exeter Performance Studies)

In Marking Time, Mike Pearson investigates alternative theater making in Cardiff from the 1960s through the present. Using “theater archaeology,” or recreating theater experiences through interviews with those present at specific performances, revisiting the site of the theater production, and looking at other first-person documentation, Pearson offers his readers a unique approach to theater history. An unusual blend of oral history, academic rigor, and creative writing, Marking Time reveals a city and its working artists in a new and fascinating light.

In Marking Time, Mike Pearson investigates alternative theater making in Cardiff from the 1960s through the present. Using “theater archaeology,” or recreating theater experiences through interviews with those present at specific performances, revisiting the site of the theater production, and looking at other first-person documentation, Pearson offers his readers a unique approach to theater history. An unusual blend of oral history, academic rigor, and creative writing, Marking Time reveals a city and its working artists in a new and fascinating light.  

Push Pause: Exploring The Gospel According To Jesus

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

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Site-Specific Performance

Site-Specific Performance

Illini Legends, Lists, and Lore

Theatre/Archaeology

Theatre/Archaeology

In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter Performance Studies)

In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (Exeter Performance Studies)

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City (Exeter Performance Studies)

Marking Time: Performance, Archaeology and the City (Exeter Performance Studies)

Push Pause: Exploring The Gospel According To Jesus