Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604735732 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Promoting the study of performance as an important and valuable vehicle for inter-disciplinary research and thought, it is a model of the kinds of research being developed in the emerging field of performance studies.. Based primarily upon original research, it makes a contribution that is as much toward a particular subject. This gratifying study of a phenomenon that has imprinted itself upon the folklore of big--city life, is a joyful book focusing upon the street performers in Washington Square
From the Inside FlapA scholarly spotlight focused on the performers who enliven the sidewalks of New York
A truly delightful and insightful book A Customer The very idea of this book fascinated me: analyzing street performers to gain insight into the nature of human performance in other venues. I'd long revered the work of street performers - watching the likes of Butterfly Man in San Francisco, for example - as they engaged their audiences in ways seldom seen on the indoor platform stage. But it took Harrison-Pepper's. Mark Nizer mark@nizer.com said I was there and she is right. I came to work Washington Square Park a year after this book was published and it was one of the greatest thrills of my life. This book captures the subtle nuances and politics of the "Carneige Hall" of street performing. The author really got to know the performers and was there long enough to learn what is really happening in this amazing space. I came to know man. The single best book written on street theatre. Joe Pine Harrison-Pepper's descriptions of the performances and players of Washington Square are top-rate, but it's with her analysis of street performance that she really shines. She explains "the street as stage", how the script of such performances is written between the performer and the audience, and how they turn "city space" into "theater place". I highly recommend it