Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance : A Duet Without You and Practice as Research.

Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance : A Duet Without You and Practice as Research. - Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2020. - 186 pages, 24cm. - ISSN . - ISSN. .

Description based upon print version of record. Includes the full-length performance score of A Duet Without You, an original piece of collaboratively devised theatre by performance artist and scholar Chloé Déchery. Also includes a series of essays and critical responses from leading theorists and theatre-makers and a template performance score designed for anyone wanting to reinterpret the new original score and perform their own version. 15 b/w illus.

Cover -- Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Performance Credits -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Making of A Duet Without You:Working With and Without Others in the Neo-Liberal Performance Context -- PART ONE: A DUET WITHOUT YOU -- 1. A Duet Without You: The Performance Score -- PART TWO: CRITICAL WRITING AND PRACTICE AS RESEARCH: THE COLLABORATORS' INSIGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS -- 2. A Dance of Absence: (In)visible Dramaturgies within A Duet Without You -- 3. On Friendship and Collaboration 4. Distance and Occupation: Notes on the Recorded Voice -- 5. Staging Absence and the (Un)Making of Memory in A Duet Without You -- PART THREE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PERFORMING THEORY AROUND A DUET WITHOUT YOU -- 6. An Invitation to Dance: Chloé Déchery's A Duet Without You -- 7. Folding and Unfolding: A Close Listening to Chloé Déchery's A Duet Without You -- 8. Absence: Chloé Déchery's A Duet Without You and Marguerite Duras -- 9. An Electronic Conversation on Bridges, Pregnancies, Bookends and Encountering Histories -- Coda, On Blue -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover

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