Performance art books

Conventional histories of comedy address the verbal comedy presented on stage or screen, or in broadcast media....  Read More >>

Throughout Burlesque: The True Art of Seduction, author Michel Grondin paints a vibrant and extensive portrait of...  Read More >>

The evocative performances of Peggy Shaw, cross-dressed and class-conscious performance artist  Read More >>

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The notion of writing for interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of the plays featured in Theatre in Pieces:...  Read More >>

Traces expanded and multi-screen cinema from its origins in early abstract cinema and the Bauhaus era to post-war...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing...  Read More >>

An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz, poetry and gender  Read More >>

John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy....  Read More >>

Orson Welles' 1938 radio production of The War of the Worlds is now remembered as one of the most sublime, if accidental....  Read More >>

Andrea Bianconi (b 1974) is an internationally renowned Italian installation and performance artist. A fundamental...  Read More >>

Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on...  Read More >>

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Training for Performance: a Meta-disciplinary Account is an innovative contribution to the field of work on contemporary...  Read More >>

The perfect visual guide to discover this Catalan tradition of human towers, declared Intangible Cultural Heritage...  Read More >>

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Step down a little closer; you don't want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange...  Read More >>

The first decade of the new millennium brought to you by America's pre-eminent and most notorious performance artist....  Read More >>

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Franko B was born in Milan, Italy, in 1960. He lives and works in London. He has been creating work across video,...  Read More >>

Performing Remains is a collection of essays from one of Performance Studies' leading scholars, exploring the role...  Read More >>

Performing Remains is a collection of essays from one of Performance Studies' leading scholars, exploring the role...  Read More >>