A Strange Proximity: Stage Presence, Failure, and the Ethics by Jon Foley Sherman

By Jon Foley Sherman

What occurs within the courting among viewers and performer? What


choices are made within the house of functionality approximately how we attend to


others?


A unusual Proximity examines degree presence as key to pondering about


performance and ethics. it's the first phenomenological account of ethics


generated from, instead of utilized to, modern theatrical productions.


The moral chances of the level, argues Jon Foley Sherman, leisure not


so a lot in its objects—the performers and the express itself—as within the “how”


of getting to others. A unusual Proximity is a different standpoint on the


implications of cognizance in performance.

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