IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 305: Performance and Physical Memory
Monday 9 July 2007, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society |
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Organiser: | Jill Stevenson, Department of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, New York |
Moderator/Chair: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Paper 305-a | Vital Transcriptions: Performance and Memory in the Visual Presentation of the Music in Guillaume de Machaut's Remede de Fortune (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music, Performance Arts - General |
Paper 305-b | Medieval Performance Spectatorship as a Mode of Becoming (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Lay Piety, Performance Arts - Drama |
Paper 305-c | Looking Back: Performance and/of the Past in Medieval Metz (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Performance Arts - General |
Abstract | Although typically described as ephemeral, a performance leaves traces of itself in many different places—the bodies of actors and spectators; the cities, structures, and landscapes where it is staged; and, the physical evidence that remains as 'proof', or suggestion, of the event. This panel examines the physical memories of performance using three different approaches. The first paper considers the presentation of music in the physical manuscript. The second suggests that performance is an experience that remains embedded in the spectator's physical body. The last paper explores how performances, and the records of them, create local, institutional, and personal memories. |