Flesh and Text

Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

2025
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-071-5 (ISBN)

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A critical analysis of UK performance company Bodies in Flight’s work and collaborative methodology, including archival images, text extracts, reflections by collaborators, arts professionals, performance scholars, providing a context for small-scale performance making and insights into devising methods and key questions.120 b&w, 14 col. illus.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Playtext
Zusatzinfo	14 Illustrations, color; 120 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	1-83595-071-X / 183595071X
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-071-5 / 9781835950715
Zustand	Neuware