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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195).

Embodied technique and practice -- Technique -- Practice -- Improvisation -- The inherited body we bring to performance -- Key concepts in improvisation -- Devised theatre -- Ethnographic data and process -- Suggested stages of devised performance -- Interview with Honey Pot Performance -- Movement and scenes of body work -- Efforts and factors from Laban/Bartenieff -- The 5Rhythms from Gariel Roth -- Newspaper theater from Augusto Boal -- The value of oral history and life story -- Who owns the story? -- Interview with E. Patrick Johnson -- Oral narrative as permission, pedagogy, and provocation -- The narrative/narrated event -- The anatomy of emotion: the brain in performance -- Proprioception -- Mirror neurons and simulation theory -- Performing oral history and life story -- Solo performance -- Beginning questions -- Viewpoints in rehearsal -- Plastiques --Appendix 1: Example of full poetic transcription and analysis -- Appendix 2: Illustration of creativity and the brain -- Appendix 3: Example of full script (1) Newspaper theatre, (2) Movement and myth, (3) Oral history and performance -- Appendix 4: Full interview with E. Patrick Johnson.

"Performance, Ethnography, and Communication addresses the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections, Embodied Technique and Practice, and Oral History and Personal Narrative Performance.Each includes specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnography and digital performance, representing an invaluable resource for today's student of Performance Studies, Communication Studies or Cultural Studies"--