Performance art

This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning disabled performer.

New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries.

Restless Infections is an innovative collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in post-colonial South Africa.

New Directions (1970) is a handbook for amateur dramatists packed with ideas and practical advice on production, choosing plays, improvisation, make-up, costumes, street drama, scenery and documentaries.

La Quila propone entender la historia del teatro como un trabajo de memoria artística, cuestionando visiones reduccionistas.

This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.

Este libro explora la historia del teatro argentino en Patagonia y el Noroeste, destacando la descentralizacion del canon.

Originally published in 1986, this volume illuminates the predominant theatrical styles of a particular period in dramatic history.

Originally published in 1974, this book examines in detail some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester.

How are plays constructed?

Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies.

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives.

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolving phenomenon of gender.

Stanislavsky and Gender explores the intimate and complicated relationship between the enduring influence of Konstantin Stanislavsky and the evolving phenomenon of gender.

Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies.

Este volumen, que reune textos de 17 autores, traza varias trayectorias en el estudio del performance, no solo en cuanto a practicas artisticas sino a los multiples ambitos en que se da: politica, deporte, religion, actos civicos, y en cuanto a la teoria que se elabora a su alrededor.

This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives.

This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy.

Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author's theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique.

Dos gemelos, Sebastián y su hermana Viola, naufragan en las costas de Iliria.

Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023"e;I am Jugoslovenka"e; argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation.

First Published in 1989, Churchill: The Playwright is an illuminating and comprehensive guide to Caryl Churchill's stage, television, and radio plays.

This book is the first definitive publication to consider the intersections of applied theatre and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - a series of goals which have shaped development and social justice initiatives from 2015 to 2030.

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.

Is the mind like a theatrical performance?

What is theatre?

This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning.

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games.

First Published in 1989, Churchill: The Playwright is an illuminating and comprehensive guide to Caryl Churchill's stage, television, and radio plays.

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 light on the political implications of aesthetic representation.

Bringing together the latest research and perspectives in the fields of analytic philosophy and theater studies, this collection of essays provides a reflection of how these two fields have emerged and intersected in the twenty-first century.

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance.

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times provides insight into the impact the artform has had across the creative sector and argues for its defence in higher education today.

The Dancer's Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities.

What is a live performance?

Originally published in 1984, this book recreates the unique atmosphere of the Restoration playhouses in order to demonstrate how theatrical conditions spurred authors into creating new forms of tragedy, comedy and opera, the techniques of which anticipated the ideas of 'gestus' and 'alienation' first articulated by Bertold Brecht in the 20th century.

Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media - theatre, film and television - and to show how the art of acting, which never stops evolving had entered into a new phase of growth in the sixties.

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 light on the political implications of aesthetic representation.

From scrutinizing what exactly the Alexander Technique is to offering guidance on more advanced elements, such as core postural support and psycho-physical unity, this book offers a holistic insight to the Alexander Technique for practitioners and artists.