Performed Ethnography and Communication - Madison, D Soyini

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List of figures
AcknowledgmentsPrologue
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 and performance
• Examples

Chapter 3 Devised theatre

• Ethnographic data and process
• Suggested stages for devised performance
• In summary
• Interview with Honey Pot Performance
• Case study two: the digital in dialogic performance across two continents

Chapter 4 Movement and scenes of body work

• Warm-up improvisations for neutral mask
• Efforts and factors from Laban/Bartenieff
• Improvisation exercises for efforts and factors
• Improvisational exercises for BESS
• The 5Rhythms from Gabrielle Roth
• Augusto Boal and Newspaper Theatre

PART 2 Oral history and personal narrative performance

Chapter 5 The value of oral history and life story

• Who owns the story?
• Interview with E. Patrick Johnson
• Oral history as permission, public pedagogy, and provocation
• On truth

Chapter 6 The narrative/narrated event and the anatomy of emotion

• The narrative event
• The narrated event
• Case study three: holograms in a live staging of history: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Chapter 7 Anatomy of emotion: the brain, performance, and oral history

• Proprioception
• Mirror neurons and simulation theory

Chapter 8 Performing oral history and life stories

• Solo performance
• Exercises
Chapter 9 Viewpoints in rehearsal

• Examples
• Selected viewpoints for oral history and performance
• Case study four: the storyteller's magnified embodiments in real-time telling

Chapter 10 Jerzy Grotowski's plastiques and Viola Spolin's speech and sound

• The brain of the body and the body of the brain
• Interview with Stephen Wangh
• Examples

Epilogue: the intermix of performance, ethnography, and communication
Appendix: illustration of creativity and the brain
Bibliography
Index