<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce the publication of my book: <b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>Experiments in Immersive, One-to-One Performance:
<span>Understanding Audience Experience through Sensory Engagement</span></i></font></span></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span>.</span></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span><br></span></i></font></span></div><div><a href="http://www.routledge.com/9780367631222" target="_blank">www.routledge.com/9780367631222</a></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span><br></span></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><i><span>***<br></span></i></font></span></div><div><p>This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance. </p>
<p>It presents a distinct, practice-based research (PBR) framework – a
performance research ‘laboratory’ – designed to evaluate the effects on
diverse audience experiences of two ‘sense-specific manipulations’: eye
masks and touch. Through a qualitative analysis of responses
from seventy-four individual audience participants, this book offers
insight into how these popular ‘immersing’ strategies might be
experienced. What do these strategies achieve? How do audience
participants make sense of them? Do audience responses align with
artistic intentions? And how does the PBR framework designed to address
these questions influence the outcomes? Through an analysis of three
sets of one-to-one performance experiments generating comparative data
about the experience of sense-specific manipulation, this book proposes
the utility of merging methodologies in artistic research with empirical
audience research in theatre and performance studies. </p>
<p>This study offers a new perspective on the value of sensory-focused,
immersive, one-to-one experience as a means of resensitizing audience
participants through performance. </p><p>***<br></p></div><div>Best,</div><div>Natalia</div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Natalia Esling, PhD</b></div><div>she / her / hers</div><div><br><i>I respectfully acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam) peoples, on whose lands and waterways I am privileged to live and work.</i><br><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>