Browsing by Author "Clarke, Alissa"
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“Am I Providing a Good Show for You?” Female Performance, Labor and Collaborative Agency in Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead's Daddy (1973)
Clarke, Alissa (Article)French artist, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and British counter-culture filmmaker, Peter Whitehead’s underground film collaboration, Daddy (1973), is a sexually explicit surrealist pop art Freudian rape revenge fantasy. It stems ... -
Drama and Performance
Clarke, Alissa; Ploeger, Daniel (Book chapter)This chapter focusses on work in Drama and Performance Studies published between late 2010 and early 2012 and is divided into two sections: 1. Technology, Culture and Species by Daniël Ploeger looks at performance practices ... -
In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training and Central Scenic Space
Clarke, Alissa (Book chapter)Whether suggestively reclining on a Leda-inspired golden swan bed in her self-penned hit film, She Done Him Wrong (1933) or carried aloft on a decadent chaise longue by loin cloth clad muscle men in her Las Vegas shows ... -
Laughter and Love: Creative Counter-Discourses within Performer Training
Clarke, Alissa (Article)The importance of being serious and treating the practice seriously is emphasised across many different psychophysical performer trainings, with practitioners following Grotowski’s lead and emphasising the need to ‘Leave ... -
A Night at the Cinema in the 1960s
Using the findings and data of the AHRC-funded 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s' project, this immersive theatre performance recreated the experience of visiting a cinema during that decade. Bringing ... -
Orgasms and Oppositions: Dani Ploeger’s ELECTRODE
Clarke, Alissa (Article)In his performance installation, ELECTRODE (2011), Dani Ploeger repeatedly “fakes” orgasms. Using medical devices, digital sound synthesis, and graphs, Ploeger rigorously and specifically labors to replicate the sphincter ... -
The Peter Whitehead Residency - Summer of Love: Revisited Season at the Royal Albert Hall
Chibnall, S.; Clarke, Alissa; Chilcott, Robert (Other)This HEIF-funded impact project was based on the recent acquisition of the archive of Peter Whitehead, a prominent film-maker, writer and image-maker, whose work is particularly relevant to media celebrations and re-imaginings ... -
The Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Performer Trainings
Clarke, Alissa (Book chapter)The Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Performer Trainings Previous studies investigating the written documentation of embodied performer trainings have predominantly ... -
“Points of View”: Exploring and Reflecting Embodied Gazes in the Performer Training Space
Clarke, Alissa (Conference)In dance, ‘apperception is grounded not just in the eye but in the entire body’, thus necessitating reconsideration of the static, filmic concept of the objectifying male gaze (Daly 2002: 307). This paper proposes that ... -
Q+A with Jenny Spires as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the screening of Peter Whitehead's Tonite Let's All Make Love in London' (1967) at the Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, 3rd March
Clarke, Alissa (Other)Following a fiftieth-anniversary screening of Peter Whitehead’s seminal documentary, 'Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London' (1967) at the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester as part of its advertised public programme, Alissa ...