Performance Art

Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research is the follow-up to Ben Spatz's 2015 book What a Body Can Do, charting a course through more than t...

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of ...

‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential ...

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor’s Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky.This volume is the ...

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role ...

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping ...

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death shines a spotlight on what theater, and especially tragedy, tells us about our ontologic...

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embod...

"Shards" as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography. The author shares the i...

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping ...

"Shards" as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography. The author shares the i...

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance...

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embod...

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure in the play. It shows how traditio...

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 demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, co...

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seenthrough the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the larg...

This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of comm...

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative an...

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.You may think of it not as a book, but as a library, an elevator, an amateur performance in a near...

A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of...

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and ...

`one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of...