[Candrama] New Book! *Experiments in Immersive, One-to-one Performance*

[Natalia Esling]

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my book: *Experiments in
Immersive, One-to-One Performance: Understanding Audience Experience
through Sensory Engagement**.*

www.routledge.com/9780367631222


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This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory
engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

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.

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.

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Best,
Natalia

-- 
*Natalia Esling, PhD*
she / her / hers

*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.*
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