Stylistic characteristics and philosophies of Contemporary performance

What this note covers

1. Contemporary performance is plural, hybrid and context-responsive
2. Devising turns research and ensemble offers into a performance score
3. Postdramatic organisation can privilege event over plot
4. Liveness and mediation can interrogate presence
5. Audience participation redistributes some control
6. Worked contemporary performance score about public memory
7. Worked devised event: a museum label that refuses one history
8. Worked performance score: bodies negotiate a biometric gate

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