Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance by Amanda Stua

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Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care.

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This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care.The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.'This book is an invaluable addition to the relevance of our modality and contains many crossovers with which our practice is affiliated... The global COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the power that the arts hold in keeping people creative, playful and, most importantly, connected. Care is ultimately about our relationship with others. This book is tantamount for exploring how and why it is so important to enmesh the arts within the caring professions.' - Dramatherapy

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This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. Advancing our understanding of performance as a mode of care, this book challenges us to rethink the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogate the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'.Drawing on interdisciplinary debates and discussion, the contributors consider how the field of performance, the aesthetic and ethico-political structures might be challenged by an examination of inter-human care. By placing socially-engaged performance in dialogue with theories and practices of care, the contributors not only consider how performance operates as a mode of caring for others, but how debates between the theory and practice of care and performance making might foster a greater understanding of how the caring encounter is embodied and experienced.

Author Biography

Amanda Stuart Fisher is Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.James Thompson is Professor of Applied Theatre at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction: caring performance, performing care – Amanda Stuart FisherPart I Performing interrelatedness1 Care ethics and improvisation: can performance care? – Maurice Hamington2 Towards an aesthetics of care – James Thompson 3 Performing tenderness: fluidity and reciprocity in the performance of caring in Fevered Sleep's Men & Girls Dance – Amanda Stuart FisherPart II Care-filled performance4 Caring beyond illness: an examination of Godder's socially engaged art and participatory dance for Parkinson's work – Sara Houston5 Convivial theatre: care and debility in collaborations between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers – Dave Calvert6 Road care – Jen Archer-Martin and Julieanna PrestonPart III Care deficits7 Clean Break: a practical politics of care – Caoimhe McAvinchey8 Performing a museum of living memories: beholding young people's experiences and expressions of care through oral history performance – Kathleen Gallagher and Rachel Turner-King9 'Still Lives': Syrian displacement and care in contemporary Beirut – Ella Parry-DaviesPart IV Care as performance10 Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: an 'aesthetics of care' through aural attention – Sylvan Baker and Maggie Inchley11 Acts of care: applied drama, 'sympathetic presence' and person-centred nursing – Matt Jennings, Pat Deeny and Karl Tizzard-Kleister12 Taking care of the laundry in care homes – Jayne Lloyd 13 Performing the 'aesthetics of care' – James Thompson

Review

'... 13 rigorous essays that utilize theory, analysis, and critique to interrogate "care as embodied knowledge, and care as emotional labor" (p. 3). The collection effectively complicates discourse around philosophies of care, allowing space for the critical considerations of age, gender, abilities, and memories.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)'This book is an invaluable addition to the relevance of our modality and contains many crossovers with which our practice is affiliated... The global COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the power that the arts hold in keepingpeople creative, playful and, most importantly, connected. Care is ultimately about our relationship with others. This book is tantamount for exploring how and why it is so important to enmesh the arts within the caring professions.'Dramatherapy -- .

Long Description

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of care, challenging existing debates in this area by re-thinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance. Through an examination of a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings, the book interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even 'fake' and 'staged'. 'This book is an invaluable addition to the relevance of our modality and contains many crossovers with which our practice is affiliated... The global COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the power that the arts hold in keeping people creative, playful and, most importantly, connected. Care is ultimately about our relationship with others. This book is tantamount for exploring how and why it is so important to enmesh the arts within the caring professions.' - Dramatherapy

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'... 13 rigorous essays that utilize theory, analysis, and critique to interrogate "care as embodied knowledge, and care as emotional labor" (p. 3). The collection effectively complicates discourse around philosophies of care, allowing space for the critical considerations of age, gender, abilities, and memories.'CHOICE(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)'This book is an invaluable addition to the relevance of our modality and contains many crossovers with which our practice is affiliated... The global COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the power that the arts hold in keepingpeople creative, playful and, most importantly, connected. Care is ultimately about our relationship with others. This book is tantamount for exploring how and why it is so important to enmesh the arts within the caring professions.'Dramatherapy

Details ISBN1526163969 Short Title Performing Care Pages 272 Publisher Manchester University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1526163969 ISBN-13 9781526163967 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-07-26 Subtitle New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance DEWEY 792 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-07-26 UK Release Date 2022-07-26 Illustrations 8 black & white illustrations, 1 table Author James Thompson Edited by James Thompson Audience General AU Release Date 2022-07-25 Alternative 9781526146809 We've got this

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