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Fandom and Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More: Audience Ethnography of Immersive Dance
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 61, Number 4, Winter 2017 (T236)
- pp. 59-77
- Article
- Additional Information
Fan blogs devoted to Punchdrunk’s long-running immersive production of Sleep No More reveal the impact of dance and immersion on spectatorship. Positioned as participant observers within the SNM world — with its own rules, codes of behavior, values, social dynamics, and environments — fans channel their postperformance perceptions into visual ethnographies that include poetry, digital painting, illustration, collage, sculpture, and other forms of fan art.