Performance Cultures As Epistemic Cultures, Volume I - (Re)generating Knowledges in Performance

This book investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Contributor Bios
Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures - (Re)Generating Knowledges through Interweaving Performance Cultures
Torsten Jost
PART I - (Re)Generating Cultural and Social Knowledges

1. Building Relations, Engendering Knowledge: Te R¿hia Theatre's SolOthello in Toronto
Ric Knowles


2. Contesting the Pov¿¿¿ as an Epistemological Mode: History, Form and Performance
Kedar Arun Kulkarni


3. Kä¿aikk¿ttu as Practice-Based Knowledge
Hanne M. de Bruin
PART II - (Re)Generating Aesthetic Knowledges


4. Aesthetic Knowledge and Aesthetic Experience
Erika Fischer-Lichte


5. What Knowledges Do Dance Viewers Generate?
Susan Leigh Foster


6. Learning "to be Affected": Attaining "Relational Knowledge" through Interweaving in Acting
Phillip Zarrilli
PART III - (Re)Generating Spiritual Knowledges


7. On Being and Unknowing: Moving with an "Other" in Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Queer Tango
Ann Cooper Albright


8. Approaching Practices of Acting through Concepts of Daoist Philosophy
Lynette Hunter



9. Teatr ZAR's Song Theater as Spiritual Knowledge
Maria Shevtsova


10. Coda: Meditation on Not-Knowing

Christel Weiler
Index

About the author

Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Milos Kosic studied creative writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturge and translator. She currently works as a research associate at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin as well as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Product details

• Authors: Erika (Free University of Berlin Fischer-Lichte, Erika Jost Fischer-Lichte
• Assisted by: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Editor), Torsten Jost (Editor), Milos Kosic (Editor), Astrid Schenka (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032445694
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244569-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet