Performance Art

Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making asks how cultural and artistic practices constitute a central tool for the expression and ...

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is ...

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolvi...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of...

It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and street...

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing...

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she...

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.The b...

How are plays constructed? Taking this essential question and looking at a broad range of Western plays, from Greek tragedies through Ibsen, we can...

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she...

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of...

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.In contrast to th...

Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in this c...

For producers and directors planning a production, several questions inevitably arise: Which play is appropriate for the contemporary audience? Sho...

Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanis...

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation...

The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light dra...

This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading ...

Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these ess...

"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"Nobody can ignore th...

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas—from Can...

Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the cross-disciplinary studies o...