Performed Ethnography And Communication

This book is about the relationships between ethnography, communication, and performance studies. It discusses how these three fields impact each other and how they can be used to create better performances. The book is divided into two main sections: embodied technique and practice and oral history and personal narrative performance. The first section discusses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work, while the second section discusses personal stories and histories and how they can be used in performance. This book is a valuable resource for students of performance studies, communication studies, and cultural studies.

Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections: Embodied technique and practice, which addresses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work to consider what makes bodies move, sound, behave, mean, or appear differently, and the effects of these differences on performance; Oral history and personal narrative performance, which is concerned with the ways personal stories and histories might be transformed into public events, looking at questions of perspective, ownership, and reception. Including specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnography, and devised and digital performance, Performed Ethnography and Communication represents an invaluable resource for today's student of performance studies, communication studies or cultural studies.