Performance art

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.

This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners.

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

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts.

This book reveals the most popular instrument in the world as it was in the age of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation.

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

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century.

This insightful book is the first edited book volume in the literature to concern itself, primarily, with the question of life's meaning from the, largely under-explored, African perspective.

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 this volume, Soe Marlar Lwin proposes a contextualized multimodal framework that brings together storytelling practitioners' and academic researchers' conceptions of storytelling.

This book answers one of the most puzzling questions in contemporary art: how did performance artists of the '60s and '70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the '80s, '90s and today?

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging.

What did Bakhtin think about the theatre?

Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective.

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

The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.

For courses in Environmental studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental geography and Development studies; Women's studies and Women's issues options on a wide variety of degree courses.

In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1,000 performances, examining what made each so popular in its time-and then, in many cases, fall into obscurity.

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training.

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama.

"e;We lay there without moving.

If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to - and of - it?

First published in 1979.

What is theatre?

Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies.

Heart of Practice is a unique and invaluable insight into the workings of one of theatre's true pioneers, presented by his closest collaborator.

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.

This innovative collection spotlights the role of media crossovers in humour translation and how the latter is conveyed through new means of communication.

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre.

In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare.

This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.

The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity.

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.

American adaptations of Aristophanes' enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century.

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond.

The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years.

First Published in 1998.

This collection focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of Matsemela Manaka's plays, namely, Egoli, Pula, Children of Asazi, Toro, and Goree and discusses three of his essays: 'Theatre of the dispossessed', 'The Babalaz people', and 'Theatre as a physical word'.

In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies, the disciplines of Theatre and Performance, with their strong anthropocentric heritage, have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change, species extinction, or pollution and toxicity etc.

This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; Through the Roof, a Faustian trip through the social history of natural disaster in New Orleans; and Celestial Flesh, a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement.

Information and Communication Technology is part of everyday life, including education.

A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, dance documentation, film, and architecture from the 1920s to today.

Voice Studies brings together leading international scholars and practitioners, to re-examine what voice is, what voice does, and what we mean by "e;voice studies"e; in the process and experience of performance.

The current anti-cancer synthetic medicines are deemed inefficient and unsafe, state the editors of this new book.

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge.

Computers are more and more becoming creative tools in music as well as in the visual arts and design.