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Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance

Understanding Audience Experience through Sensory Engagement

Natalia Esling author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Aug '24

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This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

It presents a distinct, practice-based research (PBR) framework – a performance research ‘laboratory’ – designed to evaluate the effects on diverse audience experiences of two ‘sense-specific manipulations’: eye masks and touch. Through a qualitative analysis of responses from seventy-four individual audience participants, this book offers insight into how these popular ‘immersing’ strategies might be experienced. What do these strategies achieve? How do audience participants make sense of them? Do audience responses align with artistic intentions? And how does the PBR framework designed to address these questions influence the outcomes? Through an analysis of three sets of one-to-one performance experiments generating comparative data about the experience of sense-specific manipulation, this book proposes the utility of merging methodologies in artistic research with empirical audience research in theatre and performance studies.

This study offers a new perspective on the value of sensory-focused, immersive, one-to-one experience as a means of resensitizing audience participants through performance.

ISBN: 9780367631222

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 480g

156 pages