Performance Art

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...

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunn...

This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practi...

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

Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunn...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiri...

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

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive pros...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiri...

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno’s character...

First published in 1937. This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entitie...

This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United Sta...

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and b...

The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has bee...

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself mean...

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director of the Old Vic from 1949 to...

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring abou...

First published in 1979. How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when he wrote...

This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primari...

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI con...

How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring abou...

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director of the Old Vic from 1949 to...

First published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical...

First published in 1971. The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven...

In this study, Josefine Wikström challenges a concept of performance that makes no difference between art and non-art and argues for a new concept....