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Informationen zum Autor Peta Tait is chair of Theatre and Drama at LaTrobe University, Australia. Her previous publications include Circus Bodies: Cultural identity in aerial performance (2005) and Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, emotions, circus (2012) Katie Lavers is a director and producer of inter-media circus, as co-founder and director of Skadada circus company. Klappentext The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this emerging field. It collects work by over 30 scholars in this discipline into 3 sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach the history, current issues, and future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped by theme, present a range of approaches to circus studies. Classic accounts of performance by Phillippe Petit and Nietzsche appear alongside recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars rooted in the world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential and stimulating resource for this evolving discipline. Zusammenfassung The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives , Precedents and Presents , which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: circus perspectives, precedents and presents /PETA TAIT AND KATIE LAVERS -- PART I -- Perspectives -- Aesthetics -- 1 Aesthetics /HELEN STODDART -- 2 The staging of actions: heroes, antiheroes and animal actors /PAUL BOUISSAC -- 3 An epic of new circus /MARTINE MALEVAL, translated by JANE MULLETT -- 4 The man in the red coat: management in the circus /RON BEADLE AND DAVID KÖNYÖT -- The clown -- 5 Clowns and clown play /LOUISE PEACOCK -- 6 Diminutive catastrophe: clown’s play /MAGGI PHILLIPS -- Cross-arts -- 7 Circus music: the eye of the ear /KIM BASTON -- 8 Art and androgyny: the aerialist /NAOMI RITTER -- 9 When the future was now: Archaos within a theatre tradition /ROBERTA MOCK -- Gender and sexuality -- 10 Respectable female nudity /JANET M. DAVIS -- 11 A queer circus: Amok in New York /MARK SUSSMAN -- Race -- 12 Celebrated, then implied but finally denied: the erosion of Aboriginal identity in Australian circus, 1850s to 1950s /MARK ST LEON -- Sideshows -- 13 Freaks of culture: institutions, publics and the subjects of ethnographic knowledge /RACHEL ADAMS -- 14 The Jim Rose Circus Side Show: representing the postmodern body in pain /CARRIE SANDAHL -- Child performers -- 15 Sensational imbalance: the child acrobat and the mid-Victorians /BRENDA ASSAEL -- Spectators -- 16 Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion /PETA TAIT -- 17 Marginal body: the British acrobat in reference to sport /YORAM S. CARMELI -- PART II -- Precedents -- Origins -- 18 The circus and nature in late Georgian England /MARIUS KWINT -- 19 The American circus /DON B. W...
