Performance art

This comprehensive international bibliography is the first to attempt documentation of this diverse field, covering the history of Artist's Performance.

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history.

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day.

Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals' bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography.

Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture.

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice.

Live Digital Theatre explores the experiences of Interdisciplinary Performing Arts practitioners working on digital performance and in particular live digital theatre.

Curriculum Issues in Arts Education, Volume 3: The Development of Aesthetic Experience focuses on the processes, methodologies, and approaches involved in the development of aesthetic experience, including art education, developmental theories, and aesthetic assessment.

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated.

This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by the experimental theatre company Lightwork and one playtext from Lightwork's precursor company Academy Productions, presented between 1997 and 2011.

Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists.

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it?

In this ground-breaking study, Hongwei Bao analyses queer theatre and performance in contemporary China.

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "e;performance"e; is all about.

This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which leading dancers have responded to modernity.

Documentary, Performance and Risk explores how some of the most significant recent American feature documentaries use performance to dramatically animate major categories of risk.

An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century.

This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual "e;origins"e; of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.

The American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form.

Blonde Poison is based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War II who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews.

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

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

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century.

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre.

"e;This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power.

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience.

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement-when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements.

This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from within the perspective of theatre as a complex set of disciplines.

This book presents a wide range of new audience studies research in the performing arts to provide a diversity of perspectives from scholarship, policy, management and practice.

Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today.

Originally published in 1988.

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments.

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

The Third Space serves a crucial need for contemporary performers by providing an interdisciplinary and physiovocal approach to training.

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.

Evocative Qualitative Inquiry explores academic research that evokes vitality and life.

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

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky.

For producers and directors planning a production, several questions inevitably arise: Which play is appropriate for the contemporary audience?

Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures from computation?

Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens.

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants.

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident.

Performance creates a unique space for audience experience and influences how traditions, like the Gospels, are received and interpreted.

Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century.