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Materiality Matters : = On the Power of 'Things' in Collective Creation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Materiality Matters :/
Reminder of title:	On the Power of 'Things' in Collective Creation.
Author:	Strauss, Skye Elizabeth.
Description:	1 online resource (267 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-09A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28961755click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798209906230

Materiality Matters : = On the Power of 'Things' in Collective Creation.
Strauss, Skye Elizabeth.

Materiality Matters :On the Power of 'Things' in Collective Creation. - 1 online resource (267 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

In this dissertation, I document how materiality shapes the collective creation process in dance, circus, and theatre. I move beyond a narrow focus on the director and actors to account for object agency and the contributions of stage managers, designers, and craftspeople in order to change how future devised performances are made and analyzed. The artists in my case studies transform found objects and raw materials into what Bill Brown would call "things," experimenting with their physical properties during the devising process and allowing them to serve as valuable sources of inspiration. I analyze my findings using new materialism, puppetry theory, and phenomenology to theorize what I call "phenomenal materiality," an experiential encounter with the material world in performance, mediated by a skilled performer during improvisation, that nods to the extraordinary nature of these moments on stage. I pair rehearsal room stories and construction details with performance analysis and critical reception to link process and product through a combination of archival and ethnographic research. Chapter one focuses on Alwin Nikolais and the members of the Henry Street Playhouse Dance Company in mid-twentieth-century New York, who used found objects to create abstract bodies with new movement vocabulary. In chapter two, the Cirque Mechanics in contemporary Las Vegas bring the thrill of traditional circus to their new circus spectacular 42ft using performances of risk and custom-made contraptions. In chapter three, Kneehigh theatre company, under the directorial leadership of Emma Rice at the turn of the twenty-first century, uses an array of messy materials and everyday objects to magnify the emotional state of the protagonist and mirror the audience's myriad emotional reactions and personal associations. In the work of all three case study companies, performing objects capture the audience's attention to provoke imagination, generate affective and emotional responses, and produce new meaning.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798209906230Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Theater.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Collective creationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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