Mountains are places of \u2018great cultural importance\u2019, geographer Martin Price has observed. They are constantly being shaped by human hands, sometimes benignly and sometimes with permanent malignance. Culture plays an integral part in this process and has done for centuries, producing an extraordinarily varied gallery of mountain performances.\u00a0On Mountainsdocuments some of this history. It explores how performance practice is making sense of mountains, celebrating the range of approaches being mobilized to do this thinking: from practice-research and phenomenological enquiry, to historiography, gender studies and performance analysis, and, in the case of a clutch of articles, wild speculation and thought experimentation. In artist pages, discursive writing and richly illustrated photo essays, this issue centres on performance makers\u2019 and scholars\u2019 capacity to reflect on, intervene in and translate the complexity of mountain environments, drawing on vivid examples from India, China, the UK, the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n
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Introduction\u2009: On Mountains<\/strong> Found Constraints and Followed Contours\u2009: The Barkley Marathons<\/strong> A Mountain as Multiverse\u2009: Circumnavigating the realities and meta-realities of a Kailas pilgrim<\/strong> Searching for the Perfect Welsh Mountain\u2009: A performance of tactical absurdity<\/strong> Into the Mountain [artist\u2019s pages]<\/strong> Black Rock\u2009: Routes through scenographic translation, from mountain climbing to performance<\/strong> Peaceful Waters [artists\u2019 pages]<\/strong> Naming (and Claiming) Vertical Territories<\/strong> word-mntn<\/strong> Performing Mountains<\/strong> Performing Socialism at Altitude\u2009: Chinese expeditions to Mount Everest, 1958\u20131968<\/strong> Healing the Mountain\u2019s Wounds\u2009: Reflections on two Chinese site-specific mountain performances<\/strong> Articulating Mountains Through Mofussil Aesthetics\u2009: A study of operatic theatre tradition in India<\/strong> Landslide from Ben Bulben\u2009: Mountain activism and the Irish abortion referendum<\/strong> #NeverLeaveTheDogBehind\u2009: How climbers\u2019 dogs perform mountain landscapes<\/strong> Looking at Malla \/ Steaming Earth<\/strong> Picturesque Lost\u2009: Martin Conway\u2019s experimental travels into geography<\/strong> Dorothy Wordsworth and her Female Contemporaries\u2019 Legacy : A feminine \u2018material\u2019 sublime approach to the creation of walking-performance in mountainous landscapes<\/strong> Figure with Landscape\u2009: A scenographer walks<\/strong>
\nJonathan Pitches<\/p>\n
\nCurt Cloninger<\/p>\n
\nSimon Piasecki<\/p>\n
\nDave Ball<\/p>\n
\nSimon Kenyon<\/p>\n
\nDavid Shearing<\/p>\n
\nDeborah Norris, Jeremy Ward<\/p>\n
\nKate Lawrence<\/p>\n
\nAlec Finlay<\/p>\n
\nHarriet Fraser, Rob Fraser<\/p>\n
\nMaggie Greene<\/p>\n
\nShi Ke<\/p>\n
\nPrateek<\/p>\n
\nEvelyn O’Malley<\/p>\n
\nHelen Mort<\/p>\n
\nAnnette Arlander<\/p>\n
\nWilliam Bainbridge<\/p>\n
\nLouise Ann Wilson<\/p>\n
\nSusannah Henry<\/p>\n\n\n