Tracing the Footprints: Documenting the Process of Performance

by John Freeman

Overview

Tracing the Footprints is aimed at students, teachers, practitioners and lecturers involved in the documentation of practice. On a surface level, it documents the construction of a performance project, 'At Last Sight,' which was made with a group of final year UK undergraduates. Beyond this, and more importantly, the book serves as a unique document of the activities involved in articulating the processes of live performance. What the book demonstrates is that theatre making is not just one process but many; all linked, interwoven, impossible to disentangle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761825104
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	09/16/2003
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.42(w) x 8.52(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

John Freeman is Senior Lecturer, Department of Performing Arts, De Montfort University, United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction: Preparing the Ground Chapter 5 The Construction of Script Chapter 6 Script into Text Chapter 7 Text into Performance Chapter 8 Performance Critique 1 Chapter 9 Performance Critique 2 Chapter 10 Performance Critique 3 Chapter 11 Conclusion: Arrival and Departure Chapter 12 Postscript: Claims and Disclaimers Chapter 13 Notes on the Author Chapter 14 Index