Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance is now available!
Edited by Chloé Déchery
Series edited by Patrick Duggan
The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and collaborative labour in contemporary performance. This investigation is set in the context of a world more and more characterized by fragmentation, displacement and virtual communication and relationships. It addresses and playfully engages with the following questions: what is a collaborative body? Can a sole performer carry out a collaborative practice ? Can we stand in for others? What forms of “coming-together” might take place when distance remains between those who perform and those who spectate?
The book contains the full-length version of the score from A Duet Without You, an original performance piece created in 2015 by Chloé Déchery in collaboration with a range of artistic collaborators working inter- and cross-disciplinary, including Karen Christopher, Pedro Iñes, Simone Kenyon, Marty Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Deborah Pearson.
Alongside the playtext, the book entails a collection of essays written by independent writers, artists and academics and which are dedicated to the politics of collaboration; ranging from performative responses and co-authored articles to in-depth theoretical essays.
Part of Intellect's Playtext series.
Check out the Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance UK book launch details here
www.intellectbooks.com/performing-collaboration-in-solo-performance
