Performance art

Voice as Art considers how artists have used human voices since they became reproducible and entered art discourse in the twentieth century.

This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops with dancers, musicians, architects and engineers.

An edited collection of essays exploring the work and legacy of the academic and theatre-maker Clive Barker.

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries.

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "e;scenes of speech.

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life examples drawn from a diversity of forms and settings.

This edited collection of essays and artist reflections presents perspectives from arts and humanities researchers exploring how individuals and collectives engage with, relate to and experience environments.

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility.

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way.

This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment.

Originally published in 1986.

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.

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions.

Als populäres Sujet innerhalb der Künste markiert Blindheit keinen Gegensatz, sondern eine spezifische Ausprägung visueller Wahrnehmung.

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space.

In this book, Chloe Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.

The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business.

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting.

Acting the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the actor.

'The Woods are just Trees.

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.

Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset.

This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century.

Style: An Approach to Appreciating Theatre offers brief, readable chapters about the basics of theatre as a starting point for discussion, and provides new adaptations of classic plays that are both accessible to students learning about theatre and fit for production.

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia.

This book considers dancer, teacher, and choreographer Mary Wigman, a leading innovator in Expressionist dance whose radical explorations of movement and dance theory are credited with expanding the scope of dance as a theatrical art.

The Wedding is a Polish classic, continually in production in Poland since Stanislaw Wyspianski wrote it nearly a hundred years ago.

A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked.

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions.

Actor Training in Anglophone Countries offers a firsthand account of the most significant acting programs in English-speaking countries throughout the world.

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories.

This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today.

Milestones in Musical Theatre tracks ten of the most significant moments in musical theatre history, from some of its earliest incarnations, especially those crafted by Black creators, to its rise as a global phenomenon.

Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives.

Tracing the flows of people, material items, and digitalcontent between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana,and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cubancommunities in a transnational setting.

The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance is a one-stop resource for both improv teachers and students, covering improv history, theory, maxims, exercises, games, and structures.

First, pick up a copy of Rachel Rosenthal's inspiring The DbD Experience; Part manual, part manifesto, part memoir, then head for Los Angeles.

Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism).

World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre.

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

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

"Este libro de Fernanda Carvajal posee un decisivo valor inaugural al ser elprimer estudio dedicado al legendario trabajo de las Yeguas del Apocalipsiscuyo corpus estético-político y cultural aparece aquí enteramente recreado y,como tal, es un libro que merece ser destacado por su aporte disciplinar alcampo de especialización crítica de las escrituras sobre arte en Chile.

Conférencier, enseignant, acteur, vendeur, politicien ou chanteur, chacun peut apprendre à atteindre son interlocuteur ou son public en imposant sa voix comme élément d'intérêt premier.

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej KlimowskiTwo of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for dith Piaf.

I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff.

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis.

Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it.