Read more
Informationen zum Autor James Thompson is Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester Klappentext Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care. Zusammenfassung Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: caring performance, performing care - Amanda Stuart Fisher Part I Performing interrelatedness1 Care ethics and improvisation: can performance care? - Maurice Hamington2 Towards an aesthetics of care - James Thompson 3 Performing tenderness: fluidity and reciprocity in the performance of caring in Fevered Sleep's Men & Girls Dance - Amanda Stuart Fisher Part II Care-filled performance 4 Caring beyond illness: an examination of Godder's socially engaged art and participatory dance for Parkinson's work - Sara Houston5 Convivial theatre: care and debility in collaborations between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers - Dave Calvert6 Road care - Jen Archer-Martin and Julieanna Preston Part III Care deficits 7 Clean Break: a practical politics of care - Caoimhe McAvinchey8 Performing a museum of living memories: beholding young people's experiences and expressions of care through oral history performance - Kathleen Gallagher and Rachel Turner-King9 'Still Lives': Syrian displacement and care in contemporary Beirut - Ella Parry-Davies Part IV Care as performance 10 Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: an 'aesthetics of care' through aural attention - Sylvan Baker and Maggie Inchley11 Acts of care: applied drama, 'sympathetic presence' and person-centred nursing - Matt Jennings, Pat Deeny and Karl Tizzard-Kleister12 Taking care of the laundry in care homes - Jayne Lloyd 13 Performing the 'aesthetics of care' - James Thompson...