Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts

Midgelow, Vida L.

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“…. 24 The duration of the stillness and the relentless and repetitive quality of the slow filmic images in Disappearances, combined with Paul Prestipino's continuous soundtrack, produced similar feelings of almost torturous discomfort for this researcher while attending the performance. Williams and Taylor drew the audience into the affective world of the performance, inviting them to experience, in some part, the contrasting mobilities and tempos of the left-behind.…”

Section: Immobility/immobilization and Stillnessmentioning

confidence: 91%

Dramaturgies of the Left-Behind: Mobility and Stickiness inThe Disappearances Project

Little¹

2016

Theatre Research International

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In the verbatim theatre performance The Disappearances Project (2011–13), Australian company Version 1.0 explored the state of unresolved loss felt by those left behind by missing persons. Rather than relying on verbatim testimony to simply ‘tell’ the stories of the left-behind, directors Yana Taylor and David Williams sought to immerse the audience in an indeterminate world, characterized by pathologies of endless searching and waiting, and a sense of paralysing loss. In this article, I argue that the performance hinged on dramaturgical practices of stillness, slowed movement and friction to produce the disturbing sense of ‘sticky’ indeterminacy characteristic of the experience of the left-behind. To develop this interpretation, I turn to the post-disciplinary field of mobility studies, which highlights the movement (or otherwise) of people, objects, information and capital, as well as embodied experience and sensory and kinesthetic environments. This provides ways to identify and analyse mobility-as-dramaturgy as well as the co-production of affective atmospheres within Disappearances and the wider field of performance.

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Section: Immobility/immobilization and Stillnessmentioning

confidence: 91%

Dramaturgies of the Left-Behind: Mobility and Stickiness inThe Disappearances Project

Little¹

2016

Theatre Research International

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Reworking the ballet: stillness and queerness in Swan Lake, 4 Acts

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Dramaturgies of the Left-Behind: Mobility and Stickiness inThe Disappearances Project

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