Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research

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Chloé Déchery (Paris 8 University) Patrick Duggan

Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance

A Duet Without You and Practice as Research

Chloé Déchery (Paris 8 University), Patrick Duggan

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English

Intellect Books
24 February 2023

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Individual actors & performers; Plays & playscripts

Series: Playtext

This book investigates performance practice and practice-as-research methodology on the issues of authorship and collaborative labor in a world characterized by fragmentation, displacement, and virtual relationships. It addresses the following questions: What is a collaborative body? How can one sole performer enact and convey a collaborative practice? How can one body on stage carry out several voices at once? How can one maintain a sense of community while being alone in a room?

Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance presents the full-length definitive version of the performance score from Chloé Déchery’s original performance piece entitled A Duet Without You, created between 2013 and 2015 in collaboration with a range of high-profile artists including Karen Christopher, Michael Pinchbeck, Deborah Pearson, Simone Kenyon, and Pedro Ins. A collection of essays by preeminent writers, artists, and academics in the field complement the original performance scores, ranging from performative responses to in-depth theoretical essays. Bridging practical experiment and theoretical examination, this innovative interdisciplinary volume will appeal to anyone working in between artistic practices and scholarly research.

Edited by: Chloé Déchery (Paris 8 University)
Series edited by: Patrick Duggan
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781783209958
ISBN 10: 178320995X
Series: Playtext
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 24 February 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chloé Déchery is a performance-make, writer, pedagogue and Lecturer in theater and performance studies at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France. Her research interests include everyday corporeality and embodiment; authorship and creative labour; the atmospheric turn and eco-feminism in performance. She is the co-director of Performer Les Savoirs (Performing Knowledge) a research programme and curatorial platform. Recent publications include Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research (ed); Artist.es-Chercheur.es, Chercheur.es-Artistes, Performer Les Savoirs (eds. Marion Boudier, ArTeC/les presses du réel, 2022) and theatre journals Documents-Matériaux, in thaêtre [online], Chantier #7, (eds. Marion Boudier), 2022 and Staging Atmospheres: Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn, volumes 1 and 2 (eds. Marion Martin Welton), ambiances [online], issues 6 and 7, 2020 and 2021. Atmosphères en scène : le théâtre à l’ère du tournant atmosphérique. www.chloedechery.com

Reviews for Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research

'Framing the author's solo performance piece A Duet Without You (2013-2016), this fascinating academic artefact stages, conceptualises and comments on the cardinal principle of performance-making: collaboration. Both as an artist and academic, Chloe Dechery illuminates the space of absence belonging to invisible collaborators in performance-making and makes a powerful argument in favour of the fundamentally relational, intersubjective and composite nature of solo artworks. The significance of this recognition can never be greater than in the aftermath of a global lockdown! This book will be a reliable companion for students in any field of the creative arts and a source of inspiration for artists and scholars exploring modes of performance documentation.' -- Duska Radosavljevic, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama