Overview
- Brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including musicology, media studies and law, alongside eminent theatre studies scholars
- Analyses a wide range of performances from the canonical to the contemporary
- Presents a significant and timely opportunity for leading performance and polar studies scholars to consider the implications of performance in, around, under and through icescapes
Part of the book series: Performing Landscapes (PELA)
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In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes – glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves – are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable, untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have featured – indeed, starred – in conventional theatrical performances since at least the eighteenth century. More recently, the performing arts – site-specific or otherwise – have provoked a different set of considerations of human interactions with these non-human objects, particularly as concerns over anthropogenic warming have mounted. The performances analysed in the book range from the theatrical to the everyday, from the historical to the contemporary, from low-latitude events in interior spaces to embodied encounters with the frozen environment.
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Reviews
“Performing Ice skillfully curates a compelling series of conversations that offer rich insights into manifold relationships between ice and performance across time, space, and disciplines. … Performing Ice makes original and valuable contributions to humanities-related polar research and to global theatre and performance studies, presenting fresh arguments and an inspiring array of entry points for future study.” (Diana Looser, Theatre Journal, Vol. 74 (2), June, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carolyn Philpott is Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Associate Head – Research at the University of Tasmania’s School of Creative Arts and Media, Australia, as well as Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia. She has published widely on music and place in journals and books in the fields of musicology and Antarctic studies.
Elizabeth Leane is Professor of English (School of Humanities) and Associate Dean – Research (College of Arts, Law, and Education) at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her books include Antarctica in Fiction (2012), South Pole: Nature and Culture (2016), and the co-edited collection Anthropocene Antarctica (2019).
Matt Delbridge is Professor of Performance Studies and Head of School, Communication and Creative Arts, at Deakin University, Australia, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong.He is the author of Motion Capture in Performance (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Ice
Editors: Carolyn Philpott, Elizabeth Leane, Matt Delbridge
Series Title: Performing Landscapes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47387-7Published: 27 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47390-7Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47388-4Published: 26 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-5562
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5570
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre Direction and Production, Contemporary Theatre