Performance Art

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early...

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdezs exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovato...

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth cent...

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actors art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-re...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of queer and gender performance or performativity over the past several decades, providing an ambitio...

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal mo...

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illu...

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed inte...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happ...

Who can turn skies back and begin again?-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential op...

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in di...

New documentation of Joseph Beuys controversial performance piece May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Beuys infamous piece of performanc...

Showcasing the Optimal, Maximal, Incremental and Threshold (O.M.I.T.) and Accelerate the Curve (A.T.C.) models, this book offers a solid understand...

Showcasing the Optimal, Maximal, Incremental and Threshold (O.M.I.T.) and Accelerate the Curve (A.T.C.) models, this book offers a solid understand...

Surveying the films, installations and performances of the superstar Icelandic artist Widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significan...

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmake...

Experiential Spectatorship offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with(in) a variety of contemporary media. Using a broad-based perspectiv...

Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmake...

By exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, we offer...

This book is a conversation about acting with noted actor, director and educator Cynthia Henderson. Cynthia takes the reader on a journey to the he...