Adaptation and Resilience in the Performing Arts: The Pandemic and Beyond (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526172402)

This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the UK to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides evidence of values-led policies and practices that have improved the wellbeing of the creative workforce and have increased access to live performance. Through sections that address digital innovations, workforce resilience and programming live performances outdoors and in community settings, this book provides practical insights into the challenges live performance faced during the pandemic. It shows how, in order to survive, individuals and companies within the sector drew on the creativity and resourcefulness of its workforce, and on new and existing networks. In these accounts, the pandemic functioned as catalyst for technological innovations, stock-taking regarding exploitative industry structures, and a re-valuing of the role of live performance for community-building.

Author: Pascale Aebischer
ISBN-10: 1526172402
ISBN-13: 9781526172402
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2024
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d