The theatre of the virtual

how to stage potentialities with Merleau-Ponty

Emmanuel Alloa

Universität St Gallen

pp. 147-170

in: Laura Cull, Alice Lagaay (eds), Encounters in performance philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

Richard Schechner, the founder of the 1960s New York avant-garde Performance Group, considered that the performer need only bear one thing in mind if he wanted to overcome the theatrical (i.e. instrumental, representational) mode in which performance had been entangled for so long. This sole thing was: "Your body is not your "instrument," your body is you."¹

Cited authors

Merleau-Ponty Maurice