Performance Art

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth-century practic...

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth-century practic...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in di...

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on...

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage ...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...