Performance Art

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The compan...

Ellen Stewart (1919–2011) was the single most important figure in the history of American avant-garde theater and performance art. Founder of La Ma...

Long Suffering productively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performance...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange...

This collection focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read. The essays deal in their various ways with limits which are ...

First published in 1969. Critics have in the past described The Winter's Tale as a work of "haphazard structure". More recent criticism has defende...

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new perfo...

Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "Master Magician" and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this ...

The five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay...

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, emb...

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new perfo...

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that re...

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The compan...

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictat...

The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and coll...

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under ...

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanisla...

AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man–machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an e...

Politics as Public Art presents a keystone collection that pursues new frameworks for a critical understanding of the relationship between public a...

In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from it...

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.With a combination of essays and...

This book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.This book includes a description of the often-forgotten kinesthetic sense, body a...

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.With a combination of essays and...