Performance Art

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...

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

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the ...

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the sam...

In this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners’ and academic resear...

These issues consist of the edited Proceedings of the Shepard conference, organized by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the ...

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

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a mult...

An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship. This is th...

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to...

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

Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel is a pioneering project in examining the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through dance. It propo...

In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-app...

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a pr...

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experimen...

A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of...

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to...

A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of...

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies....

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...

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a mult...

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as...

This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and th...

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around – and beyond – psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? M...

The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence an...