In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and
emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and
humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few
centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes -
glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves - are places of paradox. Solid and
weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable,
untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have
featured - indeed, starred - in conventional theatrical performances
since at least the eighteenth century. More recently, the performing
arts - site-specific or otherwise - have provoked a different set of
considerations of human interactions with these non-human objects,
particularly as concerns over anthropogenic warming have mounted. The
performances analysed in the book range from the theatrical to the
everyday, from the historical to the contemporary, from low-latitude
events in interior spaces to embodied encounters with the frozen
environment.