Performance art books

"Platforms of Reality examines the oeuvre of a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work,...  Read More >>

An acclaimed sociologist's exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics  Read More >>

A collection of essays by dance and theater artists about performance in visual arts contexts, BEING WORK captures...  Read More >>

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This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse cultural forms, turning to the insights...  Read More >>

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

This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist and TV host Christoph Schlingensief...  Read More >>

This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000....  Read More >>

Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to...  Read More >>

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Drama in Education is a comprehensive reference guide to this unique performance discipline,...  Read More >>

This volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals...  Read More >>

This book offers a broad overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution....  Read More >>

The book develops the concept of hauntological dramaturgy by engaging with a series of performances that commemorate,...  Read More >>

ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international...  Read More >>

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

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Jean-Gaspard Deburau analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre...  Read More >>

This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance condition.This...  Read More >>

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. This book will be of great...  Read More >>

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism....  Read More >>

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Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be...  Read More >>

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