Performance art books

Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume looks at the 'anarchive', positioning the past in...  Read More >>

This book is a compendium of essays by an international array of theater specialists.  Read More >>

English summary: Contemporary art can programmatically offer many individuals their own possibilities of experience...  Read More >>

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an...  Read More >>

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an...  Read More >>

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of...  Read More >>

Critical reflections on the present and future of opera as an art form.  Read More >>

A new and revised edition of the quick-reference guide to stage lighting, covering a wealth of detail on equipment,...  Read More >>

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Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of...  Read More >>

How performance art in 1960s Japan formed a legacy of resistance against institutionalization  Read More >>

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""Using black feminist methodology, this book rethinks disability in African diasporic performance by insisting...  Read More >>

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Now for its third edition, more than a quarter-century later, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard...  Read More >>

Dances of José Limón and Erick Hawkins examines staging’s of masculinity, whiteness, and Latinidad in the work of...  Read More >>

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This is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting Method...  Read More >>

""Using black feminist methodology, this book rethinks disability in African diasporic performance by insisting...  Read More >>

Anthology and compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, lyrics, scripts, essays, fiction,...  Read More >>

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The first book to chart Scott Burton’s performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939­–89) created...  Read More >>

In the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and performance styles, as they move from stage to screen...  Read More >>

A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.  Read More >>