Performance Art

This book explores the relationship between contemporary theatre, particularly contemporary theatre directors, and the dramatic canon of plays.Thro...

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professi...

Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which it is embedde...

Sonic Engagement examines the relationship between community engaged participatory arts and the cultural turn towards audio, sound, and listening t...

This book analyses Rabindranath Tagores contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindrana...

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of t...

This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of moveme...

Historically Informed Performance, or HIP, has become an influential and exciting development for scholars, musicians, and audiences alike. Yet it ...

How have sound and listening figured in the evolution of womens lives? What can sonic disciplines contribute to feminism?Featuring over thirty cont...

While drag subcultures have gained mainstream media attention in recent years, the main focus has been on female impersonators. Equally lively, how...

Claudio Monteverdis Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the...

Roy Harts revolutionary work on the human voice through extended vocal technique and the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition has influenced several generations...

Theatre Institutions in Crisisexamines how theatre in Europe is beset by a crisis on an institutional level and the pressing need for robust resear...

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musicals ar...

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musicals ar...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...

This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.Using performance as both an object and a lens, this vo...

In contemporary Latin America, an emerging crosscurrent of pioneering female writers and artists with an interest in transgressing traditional boun...

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the ...

Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key ...