Senses in Performance

The Senses in Performance is the first anthology dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.The eighteen original essays gathered in this volume offer a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical, and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist interested in studying the subtle actions of the human senses in all sorts of performances: from ritual to theatre, from dance to interactive architecture, from performance art to historical drama and opera.There are contributions from:Richard Schechner * Deidre Sklar * Phillip Zarrilli * Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett * Denise E. Cole * Mary Fleischer * Stanton B. Garner, Jr. * Stephen Di Benedetto * Dorita Hannah * Martin Welton * Maya E. Roth * Jennifer Fisher * Anita Gonzalez * Kerrie Schaefer * Cobina Gillitt * Allen Weiss * Sally Banes and André Lepecki.This ground-breaking anthology shows how the creative uses of taste, touch, smell, hearing, balance and vision, in Western and non-Western traditions, remain one the most generative operations for critical and performative inventions and interventions.Sally Banes is Marian Hannah Winter Professor of Theatre and Dance Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage (Routledge 1998).André Lepecki is the Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (Routledge 2006).Performance Studies/Cultural AnthropologyBanes, Sally is the author of 'Senses in Performance ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415281867 and ISBN 0415281865.