Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance

Introduction: Towards a New History of Collective Creation; Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva 1. From Margin to Center: Collective Creation and Devising at the Turn of the Millennium (A View from the United States); Scott Proudfit and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva 2. The Playwright and the Collective: Drama and Politics in British Devised Theatre; Roger Bechtel 3. Collective Creation and the 'Creative Industries': the British Context; Alex Mermikides 4. Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret: A Collective Ethos; Ian Watson 5. An Actor Proposes: Poetics of the Encounter at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards; Kris Salata 6. Lecoq's Pedagogy: Gathering Up Post-war Europe, Theatrical Tradition, and Student Uprising; Maiya Murphy with Jon Foley Sherman 7. Created by the Ensemble: Histories and Pedagogies of Collective Creation at the Dell'Arte School; Claire Canavan 8. Framework for Change: Collective Creation in Los Angeles After the SITI Company; Scott Proudfit 9. The Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Staging the Chaos of Collective Practice; Rachel Anderson-Rabern 10. In Search of the Idea: Scenography, Collective Composition, and Subjectivity in the Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov; Bryan Brown 11. The Case of Spain: Collective Creation as Political Reaction; Nuria Aragonès 12. Collective (Re)Creation as Site of Reclamation, Reaffirmation, and Redefinition; Thomas Riccio