Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance

Chloé Déchery

Description

The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and collaborative labour in contemporary performance. This investigation is set in the context of a world more and more characterized by fragmentation, displacement and virtual communication and relationships. It addresses and playfully engages with the following questions: what is a collaborative body? Can a sole performer carry out a collaborative practice ? Can we stand in for others? What forms of “coming-together” might take place when distance remains between those who perform and those who spectate?

The book contains the full-length version of the score from A Duet Without You, an original performance piece created between 2013 and 2015 by Chloé Déchery in collaboration with a range of artistic collaborators working inter- and cross-disciplinary, including Karen Christopher, Pedro Iñes, Simone Kenyon, Marty Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Deborah Pearson.

Alongside the playtext, the book entails a collection of essays written by independent writers, artists and academics and dedicated to the politics of collaboration, ranging from performative responses and co-authored articles to in-depth theoretical essays.

Primary readership will be those teaching, researching or studying in theatre and performance studies, visual arts, fine arts, art history, creative writing, poetry, philosophy or French literature.  Will also be of interest to art school students and those with an interest in theatre.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Performance Credits

Foreword

Introduction: The Making of A Duet Without You: Working With and Without Others in the Neo-Liberal Performance Context – Chloé Déchery



PART ONE: A DUET WITHOUT YOU

1. A Duet Without You: The Performance Score – Chloé Déchery, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Deborah Pearson and Michael Pinchbeck



PART TWO: CRITICAL WRITING AND PRACTICE AS RESEARCH: THE COLLABORATORS’ INSIGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS

2. A Dance of Absence: (In)visible Dramaturgies within A Duet Without You – Michael Pinchbeck

3. On Friendship and Collaboration – Deborah Pearson

4. Distance and Occupation: Notes on the Recorded Voice – Tom Parkinson

5. Staging Absence and the (Un)Making of Memory in A Duet Without You – Chloé Déchery



PART THREE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PERFORMING THEORY AROUND A DUET WITHOUT YOU

6. An Invitation to Dance: Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You – Mary Paterson

7. Folding and Unfolding: A Close Listening to Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You – Karen Christopher

8. Absence: Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You and Marguerite Duras – Clare Finburgh Delijani

9. An Electronic Conversation on Bridges, Pregnancies, Bookends and Encountering Histories – Diana Damian Martin and Chloé Déchery



Coda, On Blue – Chloé Déchery



Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• Théâtre
• ART
• Travail collaboratif
• Performance
• General
• Author
• Writing
• General officer
• Performance art
• Dramaturgy
• Live Art
• Theatre
• Scripts
• Performing Arts
• Theater
• Authorship

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 12 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789382976
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 48 Mo

Extrait

Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance

Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance

A Duet Without Youand Practice as Research

editedby Chloé Déchery

Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA

Fîrst publîshed în the UK în 2022 by Intellect, The Mîll, Parnall Road, Fîshponds, Brîstol, BS16 3JG, UK

Fîrst publîshed în the USA în 2022 by Intellect, The Unîversîty o Chîcago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chîcago, IL 60637, USA

© Sîgned texts, theîr authors © Rest o the book, the edîtors

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Copy edîtor: MPS Lîmîted Cover desîgner: Alex Szumlas Cover îmage: Manuel Vason, 2015. Frontîspîece îmage:A Duet Without You, ‘Entrée’, Ivy Arts Centre, Unîversîty o Surrey, productîon photography. Credîts: Tom Medwell, 2015. Productîon manager: Jessîca Lovett Typesetter: MPS Lîmîted

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Contents

Lîst o Illustratîons Acknowledgements Perormance Credîts Foreword Introductîon: The Makîng oA Duet Without You: Workîng Wîth and Wîthout Others în the Neo-Lîberal Perormance Context Chloé Déchery

PART ONE:A DUET WITHOUT YOU

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A Duet Without You: The Perormance Score Chloé Déchery, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Deborah Pearson and Michael Pinchbeck

PART TWO: CRITICAL WRITING AND PRACTICE AS RESEARCH: THE COLLABORATORS’ INSIGHTS ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS

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A Dance o Absence: (In)vîsîble Dramaturgîes wîthîn A Duet Without You Michael Pinchbeck On Frîendshîp and Collaboratîon Deborah Pearson Dîstance and Occupatîon: Notes on the Recorded Voîce Tom Parkinson

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PERFORMING COLLABORATION IN SOLO PERFORMANCE

Stagîng Absence and the (Un)Makîng o Memory în A Duet Without You Chloé Déchery

PART THREE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND PERFORMING THEORY AROUNDA DUET WITHOUT YOU

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An Invîtatîon to Dance: Chloé Déchery’sA Duet Without You Mary Paterson Foldîng and Unoldîng: A Close Lîstenîng to Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You Karen Christopher Absence: Chloé Déchery’sA Duet Without Youand Marguerîte Duras Clare Finburgh Delijani An Electronîc Conversatîon on Brîdges, Pregnancîes, Bookends and Encounterîng Hîstorîes Diana Damian Martin and Chloé Déchery

Coda, On Blue Chloé Déchery Bîblîography Notes on Contrîbutors

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Illustrations

Fîgure 1:A Duet Without You,publîcîty shot. Credîts: Manuel Vason, 2013.xîîî Fîgure 2: Early rehearsals, February 2012, Shoredîtch Townhall, 3 London. Credîts: Chloé Déchery, 2012. Fîgure 3: Early rehearsals, February 2012, Shoredîtch Townhall, 4 London. Credîts: Chloé Déchery, 2012. Fîgure 4: Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall, 6 London. Credîts: Rachael Whîte, 2013. Fîgure 5: Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall. 9 Credîts: Rachael Whîte, 2013. Fîgure 6: Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall, 11 London. Credîts: Rachael Whîte, 2013. Fîgure 7: Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall, 15 London. Credîts: Rachael Whîte, 2013. Fîgure 8:A Duet Without You, Chloé re-enacts a serîes o duets wîth 17 învîsîble partners, Ivy Arts Centre, Unîversîty o Surrey, productîonphotography.Credîts:TomMedwell,2015. Fîgure 9: The swap exercîse. Rehearsals, February 2013, 19 Shoredîtch Townhall, London. Credîts: Chloé Déchery. Fîgure 10: The swap. Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall, 20 London. Credîts: Chloé Déchery. Fîgure 11: Martîn Langthorne, rehearsal dîary, 2013. 24 Fîgure 12: Martîn Langthorne, rehearsal dîary, 2013. 25 Fîgure 13: Martîn Langthorne, rehearsal dîary, 2013. 25 Fîgure 14:A Duet Without You,(work-în-progress), Central Royal London 37 School o Speech and Drama. Credîts: Aruna Ganesh Ram, 2013. Fîgure 15: Rehearsals, February 2013, Shoredîtch Townhall, London. 63 Credîts: Rachael Whîte, 2013.

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