Adaptation and Resilience in the Performing Arts

The Pandemic and Beyond

Pascale Aebischer, Rachael Nicholas

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Manchester University Press
01 June 2024

Theatre Studies; Cultural studies; Social impact of disasters; Tourism industry; Hospitality industry

This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the UK to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides evidence of values-led policies and practices that have improved the wellbeing of the creative workforce and have increased access to live performance. Through sections that address digital innovations, workforce resilience and programming live performances outdoors and in community settings, this book provides practical insights into the challenges live performance faced during the pandemic. It shows how, in order to survive, individuals and companies within the sector drew on the creativity and resourcefulness of its workforce, and on new and existing networks. In these accounts, the pandemic functioned as catalyst for technological innovations, stock-taking regarding exploitative industry structures, and a re-valuing of the role of live performance for community-building.

Edited by: Pascale Aebischer, Rachael Nicholas
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526172402
ISBN 10: 1526172402
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts - Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas 1 The present and future of digital theatre - Richard Misek 2 Dancing into the metaverse: Creating a framework for ethical and ecological telematic dance practice and performance - Daniel Strutt 3 Breaking the fifth wall: Creating theatre on a telepresence stage - Steve Dixon and Paul Sermon 4 Weariness, adaptability, and challenging ‘viability’: Creative freelancers and pandemic resilience in South Yorkshire - Sarah M. Price, Stephanie E. Pitts and Renee Timmers 5 Reboot. Upskill. Rethink: a case study of digital adaptation in the creative workforce - Pascale Aebischer 6 Once upon a Pandemic: Tales from the 2020s - Paul Heritage Jnr 7 Reconfiguring dramaturgies of place: local authority event management during the COVID-19 pandemic - Giselle Garcia 8 Re-inventing live events, re-inventing communities - Sarah Pogoda and Lindsey Colbourne Index -- .

Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. Rachael Nicholas is Membership and Engagement Manager at Vitae. -- .

Reviews for Adaptation and Resilience in the Performing Arts: The Pandemic and Beyond

This is one of the first books to directly address the impact of Covid and its possible long-term effects on a range of cultural forms. It covers a very wide range of practices from digital arts and dance to live events to participatory arts and more. By taking into account the possible future effects of Covid, as well as reflecting on its immediate impact, the editors have given the book a strong sense of relevance beyond the immediate post-Covid years. Any scholars interested in thinking about Covid, its impact on a wide range of art forms and its possible long-term effects will find much of value in this book. Dr Alison Jeffers, Senior Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance, University of Manchester -- .