Performing Animation, Animating PerformanceBodies, Voices and Spaces Between Screen and Stage

Engages with the intersection between studies of performance and animation, examining how animation has been made to creatively and conceptually ‘perform’ and how performances have been historically, culturally, and technologically ‘animated’

• Provides a critical framework for understanding the multiplicity and variance of animated media through an interdisciplinary, expanded, and expansive exploration of animation and performance
• Offers a variety of perspectives, with chapters written by academics, animators, creative practitioners, and artists that explore animation and performance as complementary ideas across several scholarly and critical frameworks
• Covers wide range of case studies, from nineteenth-century Japanese theatre performance to contemporary digital deepfakes

Performing Animation, Animating Performance: Bodies, Voices and Spaces Between Screen and Stage offers a wide-ranging account of the increasing multimedia performativity of animation, exploring what it means for animation to creatively and conceptually ‘perform’ but also how different types of screen and stage performances have been historically, culturally and technologically ‘animated’. It features a series of interdisciplinary case studies written by international scholars and leading voices from the fields of animation, performance and screen studies, as well as animators, creative practitioners, artists and performers, who map the variance of animated media through an interdisciplinary and expanded exploration of its forms, styles, and practices. Chapters cover a diverse range of examples that stake a claim for the vitality of performing animation and animated performances across multiple sites, spaces and industries, from nineteenth-century Japanese theatre and Hollywood stop-motion puppetry to contemporary digital deepfakes and the mediatised spectacle of VFX-driven live musical concerts.