Performance art books

This book was born from a year of exchanges of movement ideas generated in cross-practice conversations and workshops...  Read More >>

Judy Welden's starkly honest memoir will grip your emotions as she relates a story of struggle, challenges, and...  Read More >>

This book showcases six prominent ritual festivals of Ile-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria: namely Ọ̀rànfè᷂̣, Ìtàpá, Òrìṣàlásẹ̀, Ọbaresé,...  Read More >>

An intimate look at the artificial paradises of Austrian performance company Liquid Loft The photographs compiled...  Read More >>

What can theatre do ecologically? This book seeks to answer that question by asking leading researchers and practitioners...  Read More >>

Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers’ plays, which have long been regarded as a form of ‘folk’ or ‘traditional’...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection...  Read More >>

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European...  Read More >>

Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators...  Read More >>

In this wide-ranging study, pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back, examining the strengths and...  Read More >>

This volume is a collection of five Sinhala plays, translated in English, which were written and performed during...  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 volume is a collection of five Sinhala plays, translated in English, which were written and performed during...  Read More >>

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

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Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities...  Read More >>

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This choreographed book is dedicated to the phenomenon of the bare body in contemporary performance. This work of...  Read More >>

Based on a 3-year, post-doc, the author explores her embodied research into intermateriality, asking: how do movement...  Read More >>

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This book is an investigation of church music through the lens of performance theory.  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque...  Read More >>

Simultaneously speculative and inspired by everyday experiences, this volume develops an aesthetics of metabolism...  Read More >>