On Dramatic Rhythm. 2. Theatres of powerlessness

(The second of two online lectures on dramaturgies of temporality for the pedagogic programme Movimento Ritmico, convened by Associazione Raffaello Sanzio, Cesena, Italy, 14th and 15th May 2020) I have three things to note as introduction to this second lecture on dramatic rhythm. The first is that the lecture is concerned mainly with experience and … Continue reading On Dramatic Rhythm. 2. Theatres of powerlessness

On Dramatic Rhythm. 1. Last night’s audience

(The first of two online lectures on dramaturgies of temporality for the pedagogic programme Movimento Ritmico, convened by Associazione Raffaello Sanzio, Cesena, Italy, 14th and 15th May 2020)   Over these two lectures I aim to consider ‘dramatic rhythm’ – the temporal form and structure of enacted or presented events – in relation to modes … Continue reading On Dramatic Rhythm. 1. Last night’s audience

The picture of someone’s back

  (Paper for the Documenting Performance Working Group, Wayward Temporalities, TaPRA conference, University of Exeter, September 2019) In what follows I shall be discussing a couple of moving image works, each in their way contemporary cinematic reconstructions of historical events, both working in an explicit performance documentation mode, both playing with the temporalities of acting … Continue reading The picture of someone’s back

A principled hesitancy

Rose English, Plato's Chair, Vancouver 1983. Photo: Eric Metcalfe (Presentation for Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating, TaPRA Documenting Performance, Tate Exchange, 13th May 2019) Description At the Richard Saltoun gallery in London, March-April 2019, there are three CDs with headphones mounted on a wall, at which a visitor can listen to audio recordings of different … Continue reading A principled hesitancy