Performance Art

First published in 1971. This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultura...

First published in 1957. This edition re-issues the second edition of 1965. Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English Histor...

This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of ...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practi...

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveal...

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in C...

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium – the digital – that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identiti...

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...

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

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity. This book explores ...

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveal...

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O’Neill’s visio...

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success ...

This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson’s unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson’s notably collaborative rehears...

First published in 1961. Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies, John H...

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...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practi...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a stri...

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and ...

First published in 1971. This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures. Beginning from the dark comedies, ...

Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as ...

Written from various perspectives - international actors, directors, playwrights, academics, dancers, and artists - this book examines and celebrat...

Dynamic Cartography analyses the works of Rudolf Laban, Lawrence Halprin, Anne Bogart, Adolphe Appia, Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, and Hélio Oiti...

Features 150 artists notable for their sonic, visual, and live works, spanning early radio experiments of the 1880s up to the present. The volume i...

This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success ...

Being an audience participant can be a confusing and contradictory experience. When a performance requires us to do things, we are put in the situa...

BILINGUAL EDITION - EDICIÓN BILINGÜE ENGLISH Across a series of imagined swimming pools, arranged like the ascending levels of a retro video game...

As critic for the Soho Weekly News and the Village Voice during the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Banes enjoyed an incomparable perspective on the develop...

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage ...

The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how...

A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing arts in what is now t...

This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched ev...

New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, mak...

Originally published in 1984, this book recreates the unique atmosphere of the Restoration playhouses in order to demonstrate how theatrical condit...

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine “Iranian-ness” in the context of Iran...

A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing arts in what is now t...

This edited collection of essays and artist reflections presents perspectives from arts and humanities researchers exploring how individuals and co...

Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, ...

Praise for Dan Kwong:"Somehow, Kwong has held onto his sense of childlike wonder about the cosmos, and that awe informs his free-wheeling and uproa...

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

This account, analysis and critical evaluation of the work of Appia demonstrates how his far-sighted imagination also embraced the fundamental refo...

This edited collection of essays and artist reflections presents perspectives from arts and humanities researchers exploring how individuals and co...

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are c...

Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems...