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Flesh and Text: Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight(Playtext)

Flesh and Text: Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight(Playtext)


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BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues, we insist on the buzz of ideas, on philosophy and poetry, using words and images, movement and stillness, voices and bodies, through which they aim to move audiences emotionally and spiritually. Organized in a highly visual design, this volume is both a history and a workbook with selections of scripts and archival material from 30 years of making devised theatre and performance in the UK and internationally, plus texts by collaborators, arts professionals and scholars exploring the company’s collaborative working method, contextualizing it in the wider performance ecology and culture. Intended as an inspiration to emerging artists, the volume covers key questions for any maker of contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken word, the use of new technologies and multi-media, the role of original music and soundscapes, the differences between work presented in a theatre or gallery or sited in non-theatrical places, the persistence of theatre as an art-form in an increasingly digital culture.

Table of Contents:
ABOUT BODIES IN FLIGHT SIMON JONES   MARKING THE TIMES: EXPERIENCING BODIES IN FLIGHT FOREWORD BY ANDREW QUICK   UNCONCEALING THIS MAKER’S VOICE SARA GIDDENS   1989-1995: THE FIRST SERIES: PERFORMANCE AS ENERGY, IDEAS AND PROVOCATION DEADPLAY (1989)   PLAYING DEAD … BECOMING PROFESSIONAL RACHEL FEUCHTWANG   EXHIBIT (1990)   CONTROLLED CHAOS BARNABY POWER   LOVE IS NATURAL AND REAL BUT NOT FOR YOU MY LOVE (1990)   MY (OTHER) OTHER COLLABORATOR: PHILOSOPHY ALONGSIDE PRACTICE SIMON JONES   iwannabewolfman (1991-92)   WORKING ALONGSIDE SARA GIDDENS   ROUGH (1992-93)   FROM FAN-BOY TO PROGRAMMER – MEMORIES OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH BODIES IN FLIGHT RICHARD DUFTY   AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME GRAEME ROSE   SPEAKING IN TEXTS: WRITING BEYOND MEANING SIMON JONES   BEAUTIFUL LOSERS (1994)   HEARING BODIES IN FLIGHT DARREN BOURNE   LITTLUNS WAKE (1995)   1996-2009: THE SECOND SERIES: PERFORMANCE AS (NON-)COLLABORATION ACROSS MEDIA DO THE WILD THING! (1996)   THE MAGNIFICENT MINUTIAE SARA GIDDENS   CONSTANTS (1998)   SET-UP AND SITUATION – DRAMATURGY AS TRANSFORMATION SIMON JONES   DELIVERUS (1999-2000)   A DIALOGUE AT THE GLOBE THEATRE (LONDON) POLLY FRAME in conversation with SIMON JONES   DIALOGUES & DUETS JOSEPHINE MACHON   DOUBLE HAPPINESS (2000)   BEAUTIFUL LOSERS RE-WORKED KAYLENE TAN   FLESH & TEXT, a document (2001)   SKINWORKS (2002-3)   BEING IN-BETWEEN: COLLABORATION AS NON-COLLABORATION SIMON JONES   WHO BY FIRE (2004-5)   WHO BY FIRE: VERY SLOW DECAY SLEEPDOGS: TANUJA AMARASURIYA and TIM X ATACK in conversation   TRIPTYCH (2005)   THE TRANSMEDIATED IMAGE TONY JUDGE   THE SECRECY OF SAINTS (2006)   MODEL LOVE (2008-11)   RENDERING VISIBLE PAUL GEARY   FINDING SUSPENSION SARA GIDDENS   PERFORMANCE/ PHOTOGRAPHY/ PHOTGRAPHY/ PERFORMANCE [AND ON/ AND ON] EDWARD DIMSDALE   HYMN (2009)   2009-PRESENT: THE THIRD SERIES: OPENING OUT TOWARDS CO-CREATING THE PORTFOLIO WORK DREAM→WORK/ DREAM→WALK (2009-16)   GYMNAST (2011-13)   A PLACE THAT IS INTELLIGENT, A LITTLE BIT PUNK EVEN … BUT ALWAYS HUMAN SUZANNAH BEDFORD   MAYFEST AND MAYK: FROM FESTIVAL TO CO-CREATION MATTHEW AUSTIN in conversation with SIMON JONES   DO THE WILD THING! REDUX (2012)   STILL MOVING: MOVING STILL (2012-18)   DEVELOPING A PORTFOLIO SARA GIDDENS   LIFE CLASS (2019-22)   MAKING AND BREAKING, FAILING AND FAKING MORVEN MACBETH   THE DARE OF OTHER VOICES – FROM VERBATIM TO CO-CREATION SIMON JONES   UNBOX ME! (2023)   AFTERWORD PAUL RUSS   POSTSCRIPT SIMON JONES INDEX  

About the Author :
Simon Jones is a theater director and writer. Simon is director of Bodies in Flight and Emeritus Professor of Performance at the University of Bristol, UK.   Sara Giddens was a choreographer and theater director. She was also Professor of Choreographic Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781835950715
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect Books
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 900 gr
  • ISBN-10: 183595071X
  • Publisher Date: 18 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Playtext
  • Sub Title: Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
  • Width: 170 mm


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