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
