The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance

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ID7535642
AuthorsDassia Posner
EditorsDassia N Posner (0000-0003-4370-8167, corresponding author), Claudia Orenstein (0000-0002-0593-0499), John Bell (0000-0003-2055-8274)
Year2014
Publication date2014-07-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRoutledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315850115
OpenAlexW1561092926
Open LibraryOL40004338M
ISBN9781315850115
LanguageEN
Citations received19

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects. This book proposes a collaborative, responsive model for broader artistic engagement in and with the material world. Its 28 chapters aim to advance the study of the puppet not only as a theatrical object but also as a vibrant artistic and scholarly discipline. This Companion looks at puppetry and material performance from six perspectives: theoretical approaches to the puppet, perspectives from practitioners, revisiting history, negotiating tradition, material performances in contemporary theatre, and hybrid forms. Its wide range of topics, which span 15 countries over five continents, encompasses: • visual dramaturgy • theatrical juxtapositions of robots and humans • contemporary transformations of Indonesian wayang kulit • Japanese ritual body substitutes • recent European productions featuring toys, clay, and food. The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars such as Matthew Isaac Cohen, Kathy Foley, Jane Marie Law, Eleanor Margolies, Cody Poulton, and Jane Taylor. It also celebrates the vital link between puppetry as a discipline and as a creative practice with chapters by active practitioners, including Handspring Puppet Company’s Basil Jones, Redmoon’s Jim Lasko, and Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann. Fully illustrated with more than 60 images, this volume comprises the most expansive English-language collection of international puppetry scholarship to date

Art · Puppetry · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Figurentheater · Marionettenspiel · Performing Arts · Puppet theater · Puppets & Puppetry · Reference · Théâtre de marionnettes

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