The Model as Performance: Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture (Performance and Design)

Brejzek, Thea; Wallen, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1350095907 / ISBN 13: 9781350095908

Edité par Methuen Drama, 2018

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• Titre: The Model as Performance: Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture (Performance and Design)
• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1350095907
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781350095908
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This book examines the history and development of the physical scale model in theatre and architecture from the Renaissance to the present and argues the model's capacity to stage space and enable performance.

À propos des auteurs

Thea Brejzek (PhD, Mphil) is Professor for Spatial Theory at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an internationally recognised expert in scenography. In 2011, she was the founding Curator for Theory at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (PQ). Recently, she has been a Visiting Professor at Bartlett School of Architecture, UK, and has been appointed to the international scientific advisory board of the Bauhaus, Dessau.

Lawrence Wallen (PhD, MArch, BArch) is Professor and Head of School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. From 2001-12 he was Professor of Scenography at the Zurich University of the Arts. A trained visual artist and architect, his research and practice is concerned with representation of space, spatial narative and postcolonial readings of landscape.

Joslin McKinney is Professor of Scenography at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the lead author of the Cambridge Introduction to Scenography (2009) and co-editor of Scenography Expanded (Bloomsbury, 2017). She has published articles and chapters
on scenographic research methods, scenographic spectacle and embodied spectatorship, phenomenology, kinaesthetic empathy and material agency.

Scott Palmer is Professor of Light and Performance in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-editor with Joslin McKinney of Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design and with Katherine Graham and Kelli Zezulka of Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning.

Stephen A. Di Benedetto is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre Michigan State University, USA. He is Associate Editor (Drama) for ASAP/ Journal and Associate Editor for Scene . His books include The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre (2010) and An Introduction to Theatre Design (2012).