Performing Ice
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Beschreibung
In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes – glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves – are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable, untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have featured – indeed, starred – in conventional theatrical performances since at least the eighteenth century. More recently, the performing arts – site-specific or otherwise – have provoked a different set of considerations of human interactions with these non-human objects, particularly as concerns over anthropogenic warming have mounted. The performances analysed in the book range from the theatrical to the everyday, from the historical to the contemporary, from low-latitude events in interior spaces to embodied encounters with the frozen environment.
In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes – glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves – are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable, untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have featured – indeed, starred – in conventional theatrical performances since at least the eighteenth century. More recently, the performing arts – site-specific or otherwise – have provoked a different set of considerations of human interactions with these non-human objects, particularly as concerns over anthropogenic warming have mounted. The performances analysed in the book range from the theatrical to the everyday, from the historical to the contemporary, from low-latitude events in interior spaces to embodied encounters with the frozen environment.
Brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including musicology, media studies and law, alongside eminent theatre studies scholars Analyses a wide range of performances from the canonical to the contemporary Presents a significant and timely opportunity for leading performance and polar studies scholars to consider the implications of performance in, around, under and through icescapes
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Carolyn Philpott
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“Performing Ice skillfully curates a compelling series of conversations that offer rich insights into manifold relationships between ice and performance across time, space, and disciplines. … Performing Ice makes original and valuable contributions to humanities-related polar research and to global theatre and performance studies, presenting fresh arguments and an inspiring array of entry points for future study.” (Diana Looser, Theatre Journal, Vol. 74 (2), June, 2022)
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