TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tait,Peta
TI  - Body Show/s: Australian viewings of live performance 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004485860
AV  - PN2193 
U1  - 702.810994 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Experimental theater
KW  - Australia
KW  - Performance art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword by the Series Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- List of photographs -- Peta TAIT: Introduction: A/live performance -- I. Citings -- Jane GOODALL: Acting savage -- Bill DUNSTONE: Performing colonial bodies and (as) work -- David WILLIAMS: Performing animal, becoming animal -- Peta TAIT: Fleshed, muscular phenomenologies: across sexed and queer circus bodies -- II Sightings -- Kerrie SCHAEFER: Staging seduction: the Sydney Front and the postmodern geopolitics of theatre's bodies and spaces -- Angharad WYNNE-JONES: Catalogue notes: independent female artists at The Performance Space 1991-97 -- Edward SCHEER: Of fears and violent fantasies: performance and responsibility in Open City's All That Flows -- Sharon MAZER: Real men don't wear shirts: presenting masculinity in professional wrestling. -- Adrian KIERNANDER: The unclassic body in the theatre of John Bell. -- Edward SCHEER: Liminality and corporeality: Tess De Quincey's butoh -- Peter ECKERSALL: What can't be seen can be seen: butoh politics and (body) play -- III. Sitings -- Julian MEYRICK: Filthy spaces: the investment of non-theatre venues in Melbourne 1990-95 -- Anne MARSH: Obsolescent bodies and prosthetic gods -- Jonathan BOLLEN: Animated suspension: dance parties and the choreography of community -- Cynthia BARNES: Death Defying Theatre and community: organisational body transformed -- Adrian KIERNANDER: The impossibilities of the dance body: the work of Meryl Tankard -- Karen PEARLMAN: Learning to read the physical mind -- Rachel FENSHAM: Mediating the body: dance and technology -- Index
N2  - Body Show/s: Australian Viewings of Live Performance asks: in what ways do physical bodies in live performance present vital and compelling expressions of ideas? This collection contains critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners. It discusses and describes bodies in contemporary performance, theatre, visual art and dance; in circus and ethnographic shows; in performance training, butoh and wrestling; at gay and lesbian dance parties; and in relation to digital images. It explores historical and theoretical issues of gender and postcoloniality, technology, and the location of bodies in architectural, social and virtual spaces. Artistes and groups discussed include Sydney Front, Open City, The Performance Space, Meryl Tankard's Australian Dance Theatre, Chrissie Parrott, the Bell Shakespeare Company, Tess De Quincey, Yumi Umiumare, Gilgul Theatre, Lyndal Jones, Stelarc, Death Defying Theatre, colonial circus, ethnographic displays, the horse as performer, and wrestling legends Gorgeous George and Ravishing Ricky Rude
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004485860
ER  -