Description
This issue considers the role played by habit in performance practices and studies. In the rich connections between habits and performance in terms of repetition, enactment and embodiment, this volume contextualizes and balances the predominant view that habits are obstacles in restraining innovation and freedom in behaviour and imagination. Far from arresting creativity, the power of habit is in its stabilizing capacity that enables generative change in processes like training, composition (including devising and adaptation), directing, writing, rehearsing, performing and indeed living. The intimate links between habits and material environment are equally vital for the site-sensitive issues of staging, design and location.From the individual to the collective, from the source of certain actions to the implications of others, from aptitudes or skills to tendencies and inclinations, this issue delves into the nature of habits by engaging with a broader and more nuanced understanding of the processes, mechanisms and potentials involved.
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1 Editorial: On habit and performance
FRANK CAMILLERI AND JOHN-DAVID DEWSBURY
12 Creature of Habit(at) [Artist pages]
ELIZABETH STICH
14 Habit: Training and creativity
DICK MCCAW
23 Stanislavski versus the Peasant Woman: Acting habits beyond the neutral
ILINCA TODORUȚ
32 Practical Manifesto for a Theatre of Repetition: Redressing the reputation of habit in performance
FILIPPO ROMANELLO
39 Re-generative Habit: Dancing the mimetic faculty
PHOEBE ROBINSON
47 Resounding Relations: Habits of improvisation in Yolŋu song and contemporary Australian jazz
SAMUEL CURKPATRICK WITH ROBERT BURKE, ALICE GABY, PETER KNIGHT AND DANIEL WILFRED
57 Habits of Listening: Encounters with sound art in urban spaces [Artist pages]
ANGUS TARNAWSKY
59 The Problem of Commedia dell’Arte: Achieving habitual virtuosity
OLLY CRICK
64 Habit as Restored Behaviour in Purulia Chhau: A vignette
MAHESHWAR KUMAR, AMARJEET NAYAK AND PRANAYA KUMAR SWAIN
69 Materializing Habit to Make Visible: The Chinese Lady and the spectacle of cultural framing
EDDIE HANCHEN FENG
73 Habit, Artificial Intelligence and the Ontological Performance of Trust
ANDREW LAPWORTH AND TOM ROBERTS
82 Body-worn Technology, Heightened Awareness and Habit
[Artist pages]
KATHERINE REES
84 Habit and the Potential for Actor Training with Immersive and Virtual Production Technology
JOHN MATTHEWS
96 Choreographic Explorations in the Middle and the Excess: Turning habit into potential with Tools that Propel
SARAH LEVINSKY
105 Habits from Hyperconnected Solitude [Artist pages]
FRANCESCO BENTIVEGNA
107 Performing Relations: The role of corporeal habits in human–robot interactions
IRENE ALCUBILLA TROUGHTON
115 Habits of Belonging in and through Boxing
SARAH CREWS
124 Repertoire, Relation and Technique: Mapping magic’s habits
AILEEN K. ROBINSON
134 To Photograph Without Taking Any Pictures – Notes on the
act of photographing [Artist pages]
TOM RODGERS
136 Making and Breaking ‘Bad’ Habits in Drugs, Law and Human Rights Scrutiny
SEAN MULCAHY AND KATE SEEAR
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REVIEWS
146 Making a Habit of Healing: Black women performing the
groundwork for prison abolition
ASHLEY LUCAS
147 Populism in Flux
ANDY LAVENDER
148 New Connections: Telugu film cultures and the transnational Indian classical dancer
RANJINI NAIR
150 Inside Out: Praxis as autoethnographic research
TANYA CALAMONERI
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152 Notes on Contributors
