Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice

Preface; Alice O'Grady.- 1. Introduction: Risky Aesthetics, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Edgeplay: Tactical Performances of the Unknown; Alice O'Grady.- 2. Theatre in the Age of Uncertainty: Memory, Technology, and Risk in Simon McBurney's The Encounter and Robert Lepage's 887; Lourdes Orozco.- 3. Putting Prejudices on the Spot and in the Spotlight: The Risks of Politically Motivated Public Space Performance Practices; Bree Hadley.- 4. The Drama Spiral: A Decision-Making Model for Safe, Ethical, and Flexible Practice when Incorporating Personal Stories in Applied Theatre and Performance; Clark Baim.- 5. Dance with a Stranger: Torque Show's Intimacy (2014) and the Experience of Vulnerability in Performance and Spectatorship; Matt Hargrave.- 6. Risking Intimacy: Strategies of Vulnerability in Vertical City's All Good Things and Trace; Bruce Barton with Pil Hansen.- 7. Collect Yourselves!: Risk, Intimacy, and Dissonance in Intermedial Performance; Jocelyn Spence, Stuart Andrews, and David Frohlich.- 8. At the Risk of Being Sincere: Participation and Delegation in South African Contemporary Live Art; Rat Western.- 9. Upon Awakening: Addiction, Performance, and Aesthetics of Authenticity; Zoe Zontou.- 10. Risk in Theatrical Performances in the City: Creating Impact and Identities; André Carreira.- Index.

Alice O'Grady is Professor in Applied Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. With a background in drama education, her research is focused on examining the ways in which performance, participation and play activate social agency and engagement across a diverse range of contexts.