Performance art

This study of the Piscatorbuhne season of 1927-1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices.

'A magnificently readable tour of theatrical history conducted by our best-informed living critic.

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'.

There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers.

Politics as Public Art presents a keystone collection that pursues new frameworks for a critical understanding of the relationship between public art and protest movements through the utilization of socially engaged and choreopolitical approaches.

Emphasizing the resilience of theatre arts in the midst of significant political change, Theatre After Empire spotlights the emergence of new performance styles in the wake of collapsed political systems.

This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe.

Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance.

First Published in 1997.

What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being simultaneously exhibited on the stage?

For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his entries on North Americans, including Canadians, Mexicans, and resident immigrants.

AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man-machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes out on top.

This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality.

The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick.

Art forms tend to mirror themselves in each other.

Psychology on the Web: A Student Guide is directed at those who want to be able to access psychology Internet resources quickly and efficiently without needing to become IT experts.

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.

Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity.

Active Analysis combines two of Maria Knebel's most important books, On Active Analysis of the Play and the Role and The Word in the Actor's Creative Work, in a single edition conceived and edited by one of Knebel's most famous students, the renowned theatre and film director, Anatoli Vassiliev.

Theatrical characters' dual existence on stage and in text presents a unique, challenging case for the analytical philosopher.

This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an invaluable companion to the understanding of complex issues such as inequality and social and economic decline that are apparent in America today.

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production.

This anthology of Gomez-Pena's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn.

Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings.

Exploring the culture and media of the Americas, this handbook places particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences and focuses on the transnational or hemispheric dimensions of cultural flows and geocultural imaginaries that shape the literature, arts, media and other cultural expressions in the Americas.

Originally published in 1991.

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time.

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.

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh.

'Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time.

This book establishes an analytical model for the description of existing translations in their historical context within a framework suggested by systemic concepts of literature.

This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities thrive.

'At last, the past has arrived!

This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre.

The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners.

All the girls love a bastard.

This volume, the second of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30 May 1993, by the Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association and the Free University of Brussels.

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way.

There has been a significant growth in initiatives involving theatre, drama and performance within a science communication context.

This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s.

Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal.

Drawing together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, The Live Art Almanac is both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China.

Originally published in 1982.

Performance, dramaturgy and scenography are often explored in isolation, but in Theatrical Reality, Campbell Edinborough describes their connectedness in order to investigate how the experience of reality is constructed and understood during performance.

This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline.

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics.