Performance art books

""Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression is an examination of the aesthetic assertions that inhere in gestures...  Read More >>

这是一部中国传统戏曲美学理论的拓荒之作。 基于将音乐剧回归到王国维""以歌舞演故事""的歌舞剧思路，本书以丰富扎实的史料，独特的视角，清晰地勾勒出中国音乐歌舞剧发展史上以虚拟、程式叙事为戏剧美学特征的戏曲歌舞剧和以白话、写实叙事为戏剧美学导向的歌舞小戏、歌舞剧二元线索与双重叠合的趋势，为......  Read More >>

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge...  Read More >>

This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology and human geography with...  Read More >>

In Staging and Re-cycling, John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and re-appraise a selection of their work to...  Read More >>

Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. This...  Read More >>

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them.This book...  Read More >>

This book argues that Shakespeare and various cultures of celebrity have enjoyed a ceaselessly adaptive, symbiotic...  Read More >>

This book offers a firsthand account of the most significant acting programs in English-speaking countries throughout...  Read More >>

Commedia dell'arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts...  Read More >>

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures,...  Read More >>

""Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression is an examination of the aesthetic assertions that inhere in gestures...  Read More >>

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship...  Read More >>

If you ever wanted to know the real story of how Kathak originated and its evolution prior to the medieval age then...  Read More >>

Este libro quiere ayudar a entender la melodía musical y el contrapunto, para también poder aprender a componer,...  Read More >>

Coining the term ""Jugoslovenka"" to designate the unique history of Yugoslav women's resistance to patriarchy during...  Read More >>

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet’s Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure...  Read More >>

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Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training...  Read More >>

Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all...  Read More >>

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 – 1925 brings to light an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored...  Read More >>

Using performance as both an object and a lens, this volume explores the politics and aesthetics of migration control,...  Read More >>

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of ""entangled histories""...  Read More >>

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, ‘Emilia’....  Read More >>

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