Performance Research Volume 18 Issue 4

On Falling

Issue editors: Ric Allsopp and Emilyn Claid

ISSN: 1352-8165 (2013) 18:4

Falling is pervasive and so much part of our day-to-day existence as to be almost unconsciously experienced. While Western culture, for the most part, continues to resist falling, striving towards a morally underpinned verticality and uprightness. On Falling offers imaginative and wide-ranging encounters with the theme in performance practices and trans disciplinary contexts. The writings expose the act and art of falling, highlighting three interweaving threads: physical risk, cultural metaphor and promise of renewal. On Falling’s narrative is paradoxical - falling can be a dangerous nihilistic or injurious experience and falling offers a resource for creative change, a pathway to curiosity.

Editorial : On Falling

Emilyn Claid, Ric Allsopp

pp. 1 - 3

On Falling

David Woods

pp. 4 - 6

Act of Repair

Nikki Heywood

pp. 7 - 13

Ecologies of Falling in Yosemite National Park

Sally Ann Ness

pp. 14 - 21

Falling Faint : On syncopated spectatorship and The Author

Wendy Hubbard

pp. 22 - 29

On Not Falling : Philippe Petit and his walk between the Twin Towers

Chloe Johnston

pp. 30 - 35

Falling

Ann Cooper Albright

pp. 36 - 41

Re-examining the Inevitable Rise

Blakely White-McGuire

pp. 42 - 47

An Anatomy of Falling

Amy Sharrocks

pp. 48 - 55

Three Falls and the Event : Yves Klein, Bas Jan Ader and Tehching Hsieh

Pia Brezavšček

pp. 56 - 62

An Avant-garde Falling

Charlie Fox

pp. 63 - 68

Theology After Bas Jan Ader

Francisco Sousa Lobo

pp. 69 - 72

Can I Let You Fall

Emilyn Claid

pp. 73 - 82

Promises Promises : Falling and the best intentions and falling in the work of three live artists

Mark Harvey

pp. 83 - 90

Vertigo: Redeeming the fall

Catherine James

pp. 91 - 97

A Fall

Patrice Pavis

pp. 98 - 106

On Falling Ill

Arseli Dokumacı

pp. 107 - 115

Ex-ESMA : Memory as open source

Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

pp. 116 - 123

Dreaming Muscular Prowess through Falling : Censorship, puppets and mimicry

Peilin Liang

pp. 124 - 132

A Performative Falling into the Cityscape : The weathering of the National Theatre's exterior

Hari Marini

pp. 133 - 142

Clumsy Creatures : Walter Benjamin in the bestiary of Edwina Ashton

Swen Steinhäuser

pp. 143 - 150

Falling into the River with Albert, Madeleine and James

Kevin Mount

pp. 151 - 159

On the Theatrical Life of Pauses : Richard Maxwell's Neutral Hero (review)

Natalie Alvarez

pp. 160 - 164

Notes on Contributors

pp. 165 - 166