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Contemporary Storytelling Performance
Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
Stephe Harrop
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Contemporary Storytelling Performance
Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences
Stephe Harrop
About This Book
This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.
It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Clayton's reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform.
This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of interviews
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Storytelling Presences
- 2 Storytelling Authorship
- 3 Devising Storytelling
- 4 Aural Storytelling
- 5 Sites of Storytelling
- 6 Story-Performance in New Media
- 7 Story-Performance and Social Practice
- 8 Storytelling and Slam
- Conclusion
- Index