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Look right through: intention and accident in performer/audience training

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/19443927.2012.755468

1944-3919

Joanne Whalley, Lee Miller,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

This article considers the interplay between bodies – the bodies of performers and the bodies of their audiences. Drawing upon the authors' training in acupuncture and Ashtanga yoga, the article explores the role that the physical understanding of a performance action might have upon engaging with work. Using the fiction of the 'ur-body', an original (and impossible) physicality from which questions about training in relation to the role of witness might be developed, this article asks an attendant question about the intersubjective terrain that lies between bodies. By questioning an embodied receiving and reading of the work of body-based performance artists, the article seeks to open up a conversation about the role training might play for an audience.