Performance Art

The importance of play and fun to peoples lives cannot be stressed enough in todays cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition. ...

Career Paths of African American Directors is a collection of in-depth conversations with African American directors.These conversations provide an...

The third edition of Pamela Howards What is Scenography? expands on the authors holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, researc...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023**SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023*'I read the book in one go. I laughed and ...

This book should help conductors adjust expectations and methods to suit the condition and abilities of older singers. Maintaining one's vocal skil...

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, po...

A debut monograph that showcases Smith's bold experimentation, from her cutting-edge performance art to her earliest paintings, Xerox prints, drawi...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioners work involves knowing how inter...

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...

Konrad Wojnowski argues that the probabilistic revolution, while recognized and investigated by historians of science, has been largely overlooked ...

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 ...

Bodies of Sound began by enquiring into how sonic experience is intervening in realms such as gender, memory, disability justice, anti-colonial way...

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...

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...