Experiencing Place: Dramaturgies of Site-Specific Performance

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dc.contributor.advisorHarding, James M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHolley, Kelley Tereseen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-23T05:30:58Z
dc.date.available2022-09-23T05:30:58Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the creative strategies that are employed in performance to construct, alter, and dramatize the audience’s experience of place. As such my dissertation asks, if site-specific performance, by definition, hinges on a legible and meaningful relationship between site and performance, how does the performance key the audience into this essential quality? Likewise, if “place” is a never-ending project, how is a place changed in the aftermath of a site-specific performance? Using dramaturgy as a methodology, along with audience and practitioner interviews, I direct my study to the reception of site-specific performance across mediums, including theatre, visual art, audio dramas, and dance. I critically analyze the roles that race, gender, and class play in shaping the material and experiential aspects of a place through site-specific performance. Using the theoretical lenses of cultural geography and audience studies, I interrogate the interplay between time and place in audio performances on the New York City subway, weigh the potential for an “authentic” experience of place through its supposedly “authentic” cuisine, and attend to the ethics of spectatorship beyond the theatrical frame. These case studies serve to stress-test the notion of “site,” a valuable but under-theorized concept. As I tease out the theoretical distance between “site” and “place,” I not only ask “how does an audience experience place in site-specific performance,” but also “what is a ‘site,’ anyway?”en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/fo1k-8awv
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29236
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAudience Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCultural Geographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDramaturgyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPlaceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSite-Specific Performanceen_US
dc.titleExperiencing Place: Dramaturgies of Site-Specific Performanceen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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