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Performing Ice
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posted on 2023-05-22, 09:38 authored by Carolyn PhilpottCarolyn Philpott, Elizabeth LeaneElizabeth Leane, Delbridge, MIn 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.
History
Series
Performing LandscapesPagination
238ISBN
978-3-0304-7387-7Department/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
Palgrave MacmillanPlace of publication
LondonRepository Status
- Restricted