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This work investigates performance as an embodied§practice. It draws on theories of embodiment that§act as a catalyst for thinking about performance, and§thus provide an interdisciplinary framework for§conceptualising the body in performance. I explore a§discourse that situates performance itself within the§liminal, as an in-between condition, as something§that does not fit in. I reflect on performances,§ranging from music to cosmetic surgery, and I§highlight the in-between conditions and the§marginalised space that in my view posits performance§as multivalent, multifaceted and full of potential.§This line of enquiry is informed by my view of the§body as a site of change, discord and ambiguity; what§one can refer to as the threshold condition, or what§Victor Turner calls the state of betwixt and§between . I take the body as a starting point for§this discussion, as I consider the body as a vanguard§to providing a different view to the majority of§current music and performance writings. I subscribe§to the view that the multi-faceted and, at times,§highly controversial debate that has been applied to§the body, has not been equivalently explored in the§discussion of performance.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music reviews & criticism

• Full title: Re-situating Performance Within The Threshold
• Author: Franziska Schroeder
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9783639146677
• ISBN: 3639146670
• ID: 06823246
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2009

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