Performance art

In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'.

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Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature.

Originally published in 1984.

Research-based theatre aims to present research in a way that is compelling and captivating, connecting with viewers on imaginative and intellectual levels at the same time.

This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance.

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.

Boxing and Performance is the first substantial piece of work to place the lived experience of female and male boxers in dialogue with one another.

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Americas.

Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior.

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning-Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems full of meaning yet there is little consensus among listeners on what exactly it is that this meaning communicates.

Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period.

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music.

Towards a Theory of Mime is a genuinely unique book about non-verbal communication and performance.

This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.

This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.

First published in 1960.

The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and collaborative labour in contemporary performance.

Performance art in Western Europe and North America developed in part as a response to the commercialisation of the art object, as artists endeavoured to create works of art that could not be bought or sold.

This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.

First published in 1952.

Affective Movements, Methods and Pedagogies invites readers to think with affect about performance, pedagogies and their inherent activist, embodied and collective natures.

This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment.

Digital art practitioners work under the constant threat of a medium - the digital - that objectifies the self and depersonalises artistic identities.

Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art.

This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century theatre, focusing on his least known last phase of work on ancient songs and the craft of the performer.

The political events of "e;annus mirabilis"e; 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique.

Experiential Spectatorship offers a lens for analyzing audience experience with(in) a variety of contemporary media.

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

You know sometimes when you re drinking, you feel a bit ill and you dread every swig, but you do it anyway because you want to get drunk?

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre.

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet.

Rereading Ishi's Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeber's 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards.

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War.

This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era's destabilization of shared notions of truth.

First Published in 1997.

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.

Humor has long been one of the most common approaches used in advertising.

Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s.

From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov.

This updated fourth edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted.

This book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.

Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise.

This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology, the arts and humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so obviously needed.