The Visual in Performance Practice.

Intro -- The Visual in Performance Practice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Image, Illusion and Reality: Objects in New Contexts -- The Reality of Illusion made Apparent through the Verity of Theatre -- The Semiotics of Images in Romeo Castellucci's Theatre -- Exploding Contexts -- In Front of Meaning: Revisiting Surfaces after Nietzsche's Corpus -- Part 2: Spatial Imagery and Visuality: The Seen and the Unseen -- A Space within a Space: Contemporary Scenographic Approaches in Historical Theatrical Spaces -- Theatre for All: The Scenic Contraption in the Work of O Bando -- Spatial Imagery: Visualization Strategies in Two Dance Performances of Romeo and Juliet -- Phantoms, Phantasms and Fantasies of Beckett's Tramps and Ashfaq Ahmed's Pakhiwaars: Game of the Seen and the Unseen in East and West -- Part 3: Identity and Characterisation: Performing Bodies -- The Identity-Character Crisis in Greek Theater and Its Repercussion in Costume Design -- Something Rich and Strange: Drawing a Visual Narrative from the Text -- The Pain is Visible: Presence in Pain in the Aesthetics of Pina Bausch and in Buddhist Teachings -- Disability Performance: Emancipating the Spectators -- Dreams of Djinni and Djuna: Eisenhauer -- Part 4: Persons and Objects: Performing Technologies -- The Gaze of the Other: Mask and Recognition in Greek Drama -- Personhood and the Allure of the Object -- From Assistant to Performer: The Changing Role of Technologies in Digital Dance -- Time of Flight: Biodigital Feedback and Performance Design.

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