Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design
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The University of Leeds
: B - Performance and Cultural Industries
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Performance and Cultural Industries
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- UOA33B-4136
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- ISBN
- 9781474244398
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- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Scenography Expanded: an introduction to contemporary performance design’ is edited by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer. It is the first volume of the Performance + Design series (Bloomsbury) edited by the authors with Stephen di Benedetto. It sets out the agenda for the series and for scenography research; expanding beyond traditional approaches to theatre design in a supporting and often marginal role and recognising the capacity of scenography to make significant aesthetic, dramaturgical and political interventions through theatre, installation, site-based, urban and environmental practice.
McKinney and Palmer sourced eleven leading and emerging international scholars of scenography through their networks in the International Federation for Theatre Research and the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (McKinney was chair of the international jury, PQ 2015). McKinney and Palmer worked with authors over an eighteen-month period to ensure that each chapter addressed the idea of expanded scenography from one of five perspectives; technological space, architectural space, agency, audiences and materials. Their own peer-reviewed extended introductory chapter (10, 000 words) explores how twentieth century developments in scenography paved the way for twenty-first century expansion; both in the theatre and beyond it. The chapter identifies a new analytical framework for contemporary performance design which has spectator experience (rather than designer intention) as its central principle. Within that, they propose three key concepts; ‘relationality’, or the way scenography creates spaces of aesthetic encounter; ‘affectivity’ and how the aesthetic impacts on the individual viewer; and ‘materiality’ or the properties and capacities of nonhuman things to impact on audience experience. These concepts are mapped across the other chapters to demonstrate the potential as an analytical framework. McKinney’s contribution was 80% to the chapter and 40% in the edi
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