Performance art

First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.

Richard Pochinko (1946-89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European and indigenous Native American techniques.

'It's all real.

This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published.

The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student of the 'hidden master' of twentieth century theatre.

No study of modern theater is complete without a thorough understanding of the enormous influence of visionary genius Edward Gordon Craig.

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches, tools, and techniques for electronic music performance, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware, to live visuals, venue acoustics, and live show promotion.

Part two of a three texts compiled during the years of change in South Africa, charts the impact of Apartheid and the cultural boycott on performance, and examining the role of women in theatre.

A wide-ranging issue of the UK's leading socialist feminist journal including articles on motherhood, disabillity and women and modernism.

Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.

Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous connections of aesthetics with social, cultural and political experiences in contemporary societies.

Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance.

In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics.

Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, Beyond Mimesis contributes to the theory of mimesis and alterity in performance philosophy while serving to stimulate and inspire future inquiries where studies in media and art intersect with philosophy.

Focusing on the work of painter, choreographer and scenic designer Oskar Schlemmer, the "e;Master Magician"e; and leader of the Theatre Workshop, this book explains this "e;theatre of high modernism"e; and its historical role in design and performance studies; further, it connects the Bauhaus exploration of space with contemporary stages and contemporary ethics, aesthetics and society.

In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially.

Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the customary conceptual framework that artificially separates 'medieval' from 'early modern' drama to explore the role of drama and spectacle in England, France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the German-speaking areas that now constitute Austria and Germany.

This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first encompasses the major productions of directors such as Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Tovostonogov, Dodin, and Liubimov that drew from Russian and world literature.

This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience.

Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing.

Introduction to Puppetry Arts shares the history, cultures, and traditions surrounding the ancient performance art of puppetry, along with an overview of puppet construction and performance techniques used around the world.

A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.

Dinomania?

Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music pedagogy.

This book demonstrates Eugene O'Neill's use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses of selected works from that era, concluding with The Hairy Ape, completed in 1921, as an illustration of the mastery he had achieved in dramatizing key concepts of philosophy.

First Published in 1943, The New Soviet Theatre presents Joseph Macleod's take on the development and rapid changes in the Soviet Theatre since late 1930s.

Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance.

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

In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M.

Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation for the stage.

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors.

Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam, and the grassroots feminist political organization South Asian Sisters.

Anna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form.

First published in 1961.

Insightful, provocative and now in paperback, The Cultural Impact of RuPaul's Drag Race is a collection of original material that goes beyond simple analysis of the show and examines the profound effect that RuPaul's Drag Race has had on the cultures that surround it: audience cultures, economics, branding, queer politics and all points in between.

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day.

This book considers David Hanson's robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots.

Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances.

Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Western classics from the turn of the twentieth century to present-day China in the age of globalization.

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.

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

This book explores historical and modern uses of makeup for self-expression, with a focus on gender.

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays.

Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories!

Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists, students and teachers of performance at any stage of their practice.

Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock.