Performance Art

This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully...

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluati...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

In this compilation, first published in 1999, Ian Ledsham compiles an extensive catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection, complete with diagrams re...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

The refusal on the part of academic critics to recognize the primacy of farce in Moliere's theatre is contradicted by wide spread theatrical pracit...

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that years Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant retu...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, danc...

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by cor...

Religious practitioners and theatregoers have much in common. So much, in fact, that we can say that religion is often a theatrical phenomenon, and...

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, co...

This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinar...

This book explores historical and modern uses of makeup for self-expression, with a focus on gender.The book begins by exploring the historical inf...

This book explores historical and modern uses of makeup for self-expression, with a focus on gender.The book begins by exploring the historical inf...

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disabili...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some ...