Balázs Kicsiny: Killing Time

4.1 Theatre, technology and time

By Steve Dixon (pp. 89-97)

 

  • Atemporal: a negatively configured “non-time” of contemporary experience
  • Highly stylized and ritualized “acting” performances, slow-motion movements and repetitions all contribute to a sense of time’s manipulation and disruption.
  • Henri Bergson: “what I call “my present” has one foot in my past, and another in the future”.

 

Pitches, J., and Popat, S. (ed.) (2011) Performance Perspectives: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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