Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative
interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of
animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in
human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many
communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been
key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance
including both living animals and/or representations of animals
provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human
subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the
inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to
investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human
animals. This book offers a historical and theoretical exploration
of animal presence in performance by looking at the concept of
animality and how it has developed in theatre and performance
practices from the eighteenth century to today. Furthermore, it
points to shifts in political, cultural, and ethical animal-human
relations emerging within the context of animality and performance.
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