Performing mountains / Jonathan Pitches.
Launching the landmark Performing Landscapes series, Performing Mountains brings together for the first time Mountain Studies and Performance Studies in order to examine an international selection of dramatic responses to mountain landscapes. Moving between different registers of writing, the book o...
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Handrail 1 Beginnings: Pavey Ark and Harrison Stickle (W1 and 2/214)
- References
- Part 1: Mountain Studies Meets Performance
- General Introduction: Understanding the Critical Landscape of Performing Mountains
- Introduction
- Mountain Studies and Performance
- A Short Detour to Yosemite
- Cultural Overlay or Interplay
- References
- Part 2: Mountains in Ritual, Drama and Site-Related Performance
- Handrail 2 Little Rituals: Bowfell (W9/214)
- References
- Part 2.1 Mountain Rituals
- Introduction
- What Is a Mountain Ritual?
- Approach
- Four Examples of Mountain Rituals
- Cairn Building
- Remembrance Day on Great Gable
- Inca Capacocha Sacrifices
- Shugendo
- Conclusion
- References
- Handrail 3 Narrative Paths: The Fairfield Horseshoe (W18-25/214)
- References
- Part 2.2 Mountain Drama
- Introduction
- Approaching Mountain Dramaturgy
- Journey from the West: Mountain Dramas on Five Lines of Longitude
- Peru (78° West4): Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Elinor Cook's Pilgrims
- Scotland and England (6°-3° East13): 7:84's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973) and Norman Nicholson's Old Man of the Mountains (1945)
- Norway (8°-17° East23): Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken (1899) and Curious Directive's Your Last Breath (2012)
- Pakistan and Tibet (76°-81° East): Patrick Meyers' K2 (1983) and Kutiyattam Performance Text, Lifting Mount Kailash/Kailasodharanam (Second Century B.C.)
- Japan and Australia (131°-152° East43): Kyogen Performance Text, Owls (Late Edo Period44), Noh Text Taniko (Fourteenth Century) and Patrick White's Night on Bald Mountain (1964)
- Conclusion
- References
- Handrail 4 Site, Light and a Dark Memory Put to Rest: Barrow and Outerside (W41-42/214)
- References
- Part 2.3 Mountain Site-Related Performance
- Introduction
- Rationale
- Wales and Mountain Site-Related Performance
- TDR and the Persepolis Arts Festival
- Site-Related Performance from Wales: Three Case Studies from Snowdonia
- The Gathering/Yr Helfa
- Moving Rocks
- Black Rock
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 3: Performing Mountains
- Handrail 5 Stepping Up, Training and a New Urgency: Skiddaw and Its Neighbours (W135-140/214)
- References
- Part 3.1 Mountains in Microcosm: The Artistry of Training in the Studio and on the Wall
- Introduction
- Mountains in Performer Training
- Training in Mountain Contexts (P'ansori and the Mountain Project)
- Training with Mountain Forms (Jingju Training)
- Training with Mountain Forms (Jacques Lecoq)
- The Artistry of the Training Wall
- Landscape Translation
- Movement Design
- Embodied Knowledge Transmission.