Experience Byron (2014), Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer [Book Review]

Abstract

Review of Experience Byron (2014), Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer. London and New York: Routledge. How do performers prepare for inter-disciplinary performances? What might be relevant and effective ways to activate the different modes of agency that contemporary forms of performance demand? Is it possible to cultivate vocal and kinaesthetic skills in tandem with each other? And, how does current performance scholarship address the growing demands on performers to be capable all-rounders who can sing, dance and act? These questions are central to Experience Bryon’s Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer. Addressing the complex demands made on 21st century performing artists Byron, herself an academic and inter-disciplinary practitioner working across acting, singing, dance and opera, provides a comprehensive guide and theoretical underpinning for a transdisciplinary approach to training in the creative and performing arts.