Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice

1. Introduction: Risky Aesthetics, Critical Vulnerabilities, and Edgeplay: Tactical Performances of the Unknown
Alice O’Grady

Part I. The Ethics of Risky Aesthetics: Moral Codes, Being Decent, and Doing it Right

2. Theatre in the Age of Uncertainty: Memory, Technology, and Risk in Simon McBurney’s The Encounter and Robert Lepage’s 887

Lourdes Orozco

3. Putting Prejudices on the Spot and in the Spotlight: The Risks of Politically Motivated Public Space Performance Practices
Bree Hadley

4. The Drama Spiral: A Decision-Making Model for Safe, Ethical, and Flexible Practice when Incorporating Personal Stories in Applied Theatre and Performance
Clark Baim

Part II. Performing Intimacies: Flirting, Whispering, and Sharing Stories in the Dark

5. Dance with a Stranger: Torque Show’s Intimacy (2014) and the Experience of Vulnerability in Performance and Spectatorship
Matt Hargrave

6. Risking Intimacy: Strategies of Vulnerability in Vertical City’s All Good Things and Trace

Bruce Barton, Pil Hansen

7.
Collect Yourselves!: Risk, Intimacy, and Dissonance in Intermedial Performance
Jocelyn Spence, Stuart Andrews, David Frohlich

Part III. Risking the Self: Identities, Playing with Risk, and Encountering the Edge

8. At the Risk of Being Sincere: Participation and Delegation in South African Contemporary Live Art
Rat Western

9.
Upon Awakening: Addiction, Performance, and Aesthetics of Authenticity
Zoe Zontou

10. Risk in Theatrical Performances in the City: Creating Impact and Identities
André Carreira

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies