Performance art books

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This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.  Read More >>

'Dramaturgies of Interweaving' explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields...  Read More >>

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that...  Read More >>

IN LEAGUE WITH DEVILS documents Michael Petry's artworks from 2012-2023. It coincides with his one-man exhibition...  Read More >>

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don...  Read More >>

Inside The Performance Workshop is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and...  Read More >>

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage this book will enhance...  Read More >>

Through detailed and cleverly analysed case studies, Kate Holmes' book highlights female solo aerialists of the...  Read More >>

Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre—one of the most distinctive...  Read More >>

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation...  Read More >>

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was...  Read More >>

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.  Read More >>

Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.  Read More >>

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This book examines select Australian theatre productions by director, Barrie Kosky. This text contextualizes the...  Read More >>

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This volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary...  Read More >>

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Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global...  Read More >>

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions...  Read More >>

A detailed account of the cultural history of the performers and audiences who were involved in the performing cultures...  Read More >>

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of the Argentine tango social dancing among Muslim...  Read More >>