Performance, Ethnography and Communication [Hardcover]

Performed Ethnography and Communicationexplores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections:

• Embodied technique and practice, which addresses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work to consider what makes bodies move, sound, behave, mean, or appear differently, and the effects of these differences on performance;
• Oral history and personal narrative performance, which is concerned with the ways personal stories and histories might be transformed into public events, looking at questions of perspective, ownership, and reception.

Including specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnography, and devised and digital performance, Performed Ethnography and Communicationrepresents an invaluable resource for todays student of performance studies, communication studies or cultural studies.

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction

PART 1 Embodied technique and practice

Chapter 1 Embodied technique and practice

• Technique
• Practice
• Interview with Ben Spatz
• Examples of technique and practice
• Case study one: Digital Portobelo with Renee Alexander Craft

Chapter 2 Improvisation

• The inherited body we bring to performance practice
• Key concepts in improvisational acting anl)