(Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Redefining Visceral Performance....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Defining (Syn)aesthetics....Pages 13-33
Connecting Theories....Pages 34-53
(Syn)aesthetics in Practice....Pages 54-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk: In the Prae-sens of Body and Space — The (Syn)aesthetics of Site-Sympathetic Work....Pages 89-99
Lizzie Clachan and David Rosenberg of Shunt Theatre Collective: A Door into Another World — the Audience and Hybridity....Pages 100-111
Akram Khan: The Mathematics of Sensation — the Body as Site/Sight/Cite and Source....Pages 112-123
Marisa Carnesky: Trapping the Audience in the Fantasy — Instinct, the Body and the Magic of the Experiential....Pages 124-131
Naomi Wallace and Kwame Kwei-Armah: Desire, the Body and Transgressive Acts of Playwriting — on Writing and Directing Things of Dry Hours....Pages 132-143
Linda Bassett: Bypassing the Logical — Performing Churchill’s Far Away....Pages 144-152
Jo McInnes: A Text That Demands to Be Played With — Performing Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis....Pages 153-159
Graeae’s Jenny Sealey and Playwright Glyn Cannon: Seeing Words and (Dis)Comfort Zones — the Fusion of Bodies, Text and Technology in On Blindness....Pages 160-171
Sara Giddens and Simon Jones of Bodies in Flight: The In-Betweens, Where Flesh Utters and Words Move — on Flesh, Text, Space and Technologies....Pages 172-183
Leslie Hill and Helen Paris of Curious: Embodied Intimacies — On (the) Scent, Memory and the Visceral-Virtual....Pages 184-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-221