Dressaged Animality - Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance

The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics and ethics.

List of contents

1. Theorising Dressage 2. Performance Histories: The Mechanisms of Human and Animal Dressage 3. The Critique of Dressage: Dancing Horses 4. The Ethics of Dressage: Non-Acting Dressage Acts 5. The Technology of Dressage: Animal Machines 6. Conclusion: Dressaged Animalities: Towards Human-Animal Forms of Bodily Realism

About the author

Lisa Moravec is an Art Historian-Performance Scholar. She writes, lectures, curates, and dances on intersections of the performing and visual arts.

Summary

The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics and ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Moravec
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032574851
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257485-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, ART / History / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, History of art / art & design styles, Theatre Studies, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History of Art, Performance Art