Performance Art

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth-century practic...

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth-century practic...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has lo...

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...

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on...

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

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

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

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is perfo...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementias represe...

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the fiel...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Pho...

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private   In the decades leading up to the dissolution...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

This book draws on over twenty years scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized you...

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on ...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic d...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic d...

The definitive illustrated overview of contemporary performance art. Performance Now charts the development of live art across six continents sinc...

'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow,Bloom and grow forever'Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammersteins The Sound of Musi...

Making Hip Hop Theatre is the essential, practical guide to making hip-hop theatre. It features detailed techniques and exercises that can guide cr...

David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader fie...

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators,...

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators,...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

A seven-decade retrospective on the Destruction Art pioneer, Museo del Barrio founder and theorist of Ethnoaesthetics This comprehensive survey is...

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer...