Abstract
This article considers two examples of life story performance: the first autobiographical work about the author’s recovery from stroke, and the second the life-story production Re-Live Theatre’s Memoria about dementia. It explores how performing life stories facilitates connection between performers with transformed cognitive capacities and their audiences, and posits that life-story performance offers a unique way to affect relations between performers and their audiences through an experience of ‘felt resonance’. The article argues that felt resonance in performance matters: it leads to possibilities of transformative connections within and between bodies, as well as the systems that they are part of.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 378-389 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Research in Drama Education |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 6 Aug 2020 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 6 Aug 2020 |
Keywords
- performance
- life story
- felt resonance
- autobiographical