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Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.
List of contents
PREFACE Eating Shoes - Herzog's call
INTRODUCTION Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industry
CHAPTER 1 Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructions
CHAPTER 2 Body - lived experience, moving, presence
CHAPTER 3 Scenography - writing in space, materiality, aura
CHAPTER 4 Site -city, drifting, transgression
CHAPTER 5 Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaboration
CHAPTER 6 Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-forming
CHAPTER 7 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exit
APPENDIX Notes on contributors
About the author
Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an
Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981-1986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of
New Dance Magazine, and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the
MA in Performance Making for 20 years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Among her many publications are
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2011), and
Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria (2021).
Summary
Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.
