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Procedurally Authored Performances of Mindful Practice

Theatre-for-One, Audience Labor, and Self-Optimization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Dani Snyder-Young
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Abstract

Relaxation, when produced by participating in a theatre-for-one piece, requires work. From March to May 2020, with much of the world under a stay-at-home advisory to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, three performances carved out restorative spaces. These theatre-for-one pieces give participants rules to follow to ostensibly resist the neoliberal drive to productivity; yet those same rules structure acts of rest as productive under neoliberalism.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 147 - 157
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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