Seenography: Essays on the Meaning of Visuality in Performance Events

Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Looking at Postmodern Performances of Canonical Plays /Bilha Blum -- Dancing Clowns and Desert Dunes: Challenging Traditional Flamenco Imagery through 'Fusion' /Idit Suslik -- Old Arts in New Media: Reconfiguring Meaning and Performance in Opera 'Live in HD' /Adele Anderson -- Visionary Voice / Silent Clown -- Little Cinderella, Big Cinderella: Scenography as Performance /Filipa Malva -- Spatial Relations Speak the Language of Social Hierarchy /David Franklin and Milan Kohout -- The Full and the Void in the Theatre of Robert Wilson /Marcelo de Andrade Pereira -- The Explanatory Frame /Myer Taub -- Performance Art as Intervention in Everyday Life: Participation, the Public Sphere and the Production of Meaning /Alexandra Antoniadou.