Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies: Recent submissions
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Dance, Mimesis, consciousness and the Imagination
Published 2008-06-17One of the primary assumptions of dance studies is that dance as an art only exists in the moment of movement and as a result it is transmitted, in a form of mimesis, directly from the body of the teacher to that of the ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Performance of War Images
Published 2008-06-16This paper addresses the use of the body in post-9/11 performances of Japanese performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha in correlation with the continuing War on Terror campaign, and the ‘culture of protest’ in theatrical ...Open AccessConference paper -
"Unassumable Responsibility": Watching Mike Parr
Published 2008-06-16This ‘paper’ is a short personal piece of writing—an interior monologue really—about “being there” at Mike Parr’s "Punch Holes in the Body Politic" at Artspace in Sydney. I wrote this initially at the time and have added ...Open AccessConference paper -
'Bodily': Conjunction and Fermentation
Published 2008-06-16'This cult of thinness has burrowed its way into my body. Into our bodies. It’s a way of life. The head knows we shouldn’t, but the heart has no choice . . . This is our contradiction'. This paper looks at the “before, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Necklace Theory
Published 2008-06-16In this paper I will describe the stages involved in preparing the performance season of my major project for my Master of Dramatic Art (Direction). The key issues I raise are: the set-up of the research environment; ...Open AccessConference paper