Performance art books

In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of the roots of Etienne Decroux’s...  Read More >>

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Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the...  Read More >>

On the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics,...  Read More >>

This Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based...  Read More >>

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private In the decades...  Read More >>

Compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, photography, scripts, performance instructions,...  Read More >>

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private In the decades...  Read More >>

An inquiry into probabilistic modes of sensing and making sense of reality developed by avant-garde artists  Read More >>

""The first book to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies, enabling original insights...  Read More >>

Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitioner For Breaking Protocol,...  Read More >>

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement,...  Read More >>

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring...  Read More >>

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on...  Read More >>

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance...  Read More >>

The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc.,...  Read More >>

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on...  Read More >>

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

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Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance...  Read More >>

This Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based...  Read More >>

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy & Casting the Witch for Stage & Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical...  Read More >>

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