Sujets :
Animaux de spectacle
Relations homme-animal dans les arts du spectacle
Animaux de cirque
Combats d'animaux
Arts équestres
Histoire du dressage

Dépouillement du document :
Part I : Setting the Stage
1. From Homo Performans to Interspecies Collaboration: Expanding the Concept of Performance to Include Animals / Laura Cull

Part II: Bulls, Dogs, Pigs, Bears and Horses: Animals in Performance.
2. The Art of Fierceness: The Performance of the Spanish Fighting Bull / Garry Marvin
3. 'Genus Porcus Sophisticus': The Learned Pig and the Theatrics of National Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century London / Monica Mattfeld
4. 'A Very Good Act For an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville / Catherine Young
5. Acrobatic Circus Horses: Military Training to Natural Wildness / Peta Tait

Part III: 'Performing' Animals and 'Theatres of Species'
6. Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance: War Horse and the Staging of Anglo-American Equine Experience in Combat / Kim Marra
7. Embattled Animals in a Theatre of Species / Una Chaudhuri
8. Animal Pasts and Presents: Taxidermied Time Travellers / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
9. Effacing the Human: Rachel Rosenthal, Rats and Shared Creative Agency / Carrie Rohman

Part IV: Looking at/Loving with Animals
10. There and Not There: Looking at Animals in Contemporary Theatre / Lourdes Orozco
11. It's Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image / Holly Hughes

Résumé :
Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers a historical and theoretical exploration of animal presence in performance by looking at the concept of animality and how it has developed in theatre and performance practices from the eighteenth century to today. Furthermore, it points to shifts in political, cultural, and ethical animal-human relations emerging within the context of animality and performance. [editor summary]

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.320 1 O747p 2015

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