Performance art Books
Intellect Leigh Bowery
Book SynopsisA deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Explores how his performative costuming and live art have influenced visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies; a contribution until now largely obscured by Bowery's cult status and importance to fashion. 50 illus.
£23.70
Tangent Books Bath Arts Workshop: Counterculture In The 1970s
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£21.25
The 87 Press Autobiography Of A Performance
£14.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Art of Resonance
Book SynopsisWhat is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one''s life and one''s art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The word ''resonance'' comes from the Latin meaning to ''re-sound'' or ''sound together''. From music to physics, resonance is a common thread that evokes a response and, in general, is understood as a quality that makes something personally meaningful and valuable.For Bogart, curiosity is a key personal quality to be nurtured throughout life and that very same curiosity, as an artist, thinker and human being. Creating pathways between performance theory, art history, neuroscience, music, architecture and the visual arts, and consistently forging new thought-paths, the writing draws upon Anne Bogart''s own life and artistic journeys to illuminate potent philosophical ideas. Woven with personal anecdotes, stories and reflections,Trade ReviewThis optimistic and brilliantly erudite book is essential reading for any serious theatre maker emerging from the pandemic in search of a new road map for theatre practice. Beautiful, fierce and inspiring - a love letter to the future. * Katie Mitchell, director *
£18.99
Princeton University Press Ulises Carrión
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£35.70
Taylor & Francis Choreomusicology
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance is a distinguished collection of essays by leading scholars presenting research that redefines and rethinks the question of what dance and music are, together and apart, and which promotes new ideas and voices in the discipline.Focusing on matters historical, critical, and conceptual, and defining dance-music interactions from the era of aristocratic court dance to the present, the book covers a wide range of topics, including dance and music performance practice, queer studies, colonialism and exoticism, disability studies, the âœreparativeâ humanities, and film. The volume is organized into two sections: Part 1 examines theoretical and conceptual issues, including theories of embodiment, musicality, and dance aesthetics, with examples including contemporary ballet, the role of the conductor, and even fountains in Las Vegas. In Part 2, contributors consider choreomusicology as a historical disci
£37.99
The University of Chicago Press Queer Behavior
Book SynopsisThe first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (193989) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues that Burton looked to body language and queer behavior in public spacemost importantly, street cruisingas foundations for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first book on the artist examines Burton's underacknowledged contributions to performance art and how he made queer life central in them. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual signaling, and power dynamics throughout the decade, Burton also came to create functional sculptures that covertly signaled queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used. With research drawing from multiple archives and numerous interviews, Getsy charts Burton's deep engagements with postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychTrade Review"Queer Behavior . . . seek[s] to inject art objects, sculptures, and performances that we might not necessarily consider as heavy with queer politics, with a queer aesthetic that moves beyond the surfaces of identity and identity politics." * Art History *“Building on unprecedented research, Queer Behavior is the first substantial study of Scott Burton’s anti-hierarchical, eclectic, desire-oriented art of the 1970s. Getsy has written a masterful work—rigorous, encyclopedic, sympathetic, and inspired—toward a loving recuperation of an artist whose work has at times been eclipsed in histories of art and performance. Argument-driven and lushly narrated, Getsy’s writing hybridizes close analysis, critical biography, cultural history, and art historiography. The resulting book is unyieldingly good, at times breathtakingly so.” -- Dominic Johnson, author of Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s“Getsy’s long-awaited, meticulously researched volume reads like a novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it as scholarship, history, ‘deep gossip,’ and prose. He has marshaled craft and discipline to produce an accessible, nuanced, and compelling account of Burton’s unconventional and uniquely queer development. It’s a tremendously important, insightful, and lucid contribution to the field. This book is necessary reading for performance art scholars and anybody—everybody—who needs a road map to navigate the constant challenges that lonely creatives face against the pressures of prejudice and conformity.” -- Gregg Bordowitz, author of General Idea: Imagevirus, Glenn Ligon: Untitled I Am a Man, and Some Styles of Masculinity“Getsy offers a rigorously researched and beautifully rendered account of Burton’s performance practice, focusing on the lesser-known arc of Burton’s work from the 1970’s and, in the process, establishing its importance for both the art historical record and for histories of queer life. This is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of performance art, queer performance, and the performance scene of 1970’s New York.” -- Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color LifeArt historian and curator David Getsy has been observing how abstraction lends itself to often less obvious—though no less potent—ways of communicating aspects of queer experience and embodiment... Getsy asks the public and its institutions to grasp new alternatives that embrace multiplicity. “I’m interested in understanding that gender is as transformable as it is multiple, not limited to static options, and this implicates everything and everyone in a different way.” * ArtNet *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Scott Burton’s Queer Postminimalism Street and Stage: Early Experiments 1. Imitate Ordinary Life: Self-Works, Literalist Theater, and Being Otherwise in Public, 1969–70 2. Languages of the Body: Theatrical, Feminist, and Scientific Foundations, 1970–71 Performance and Its Uses 3. The Emotional Nature of the Number of Inches between Them: Behavior Tableaux, 1972–80 4. Acting Out: Queer Reactions and Reveals, 1973–76 5. Pragmatic Structures: Sculpture and the Performance of Furniture, 1972–79 Conclusion: Homocentric and Demotic Appendix: List of Performances and Additional Artworks by Scott Burton, 1969–80 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Risk Work
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Risk Work is a masterful rethinking of US contemporary art since the 1960s, revealing how ‘guerrilla tactics’ constituted an interface between conceptual and performance-based art and the state’s intensified expansion of racialized policing. Gleisser offers a complex and theoretically rigorous model for historical research wherein state documents speak of the arts, just as the history of state-sanctioned violence can be found in artists’ archival papers.” -- Chon Noriega, editor, A Ver: Revisioning Art History book series“An accomplished work with surprising interdisciplinary insights. Gleisser has provided us with a much-needed study of the proliferative use of ‘guerrilla tactics’ in contemporary American art and performance. Drawing art history and performance studies into conversation with critical legal studies of race, this necessary text brilliantly illuminates the complex networks that flow between contemporary tactics in art and performance and the power effects of a state and legal structure that has increasingly invested in and expanded the racialized dynamics of police and carceral power.” -- Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of "After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life"“A seminal account of carceral governance’s effects in the art world. Situating guerrilla art’s rise within transnational movements against state violence, Risk Work shines new light on the nexus between artistic practice, political knowledge production, and resistance.” -- Brian Jordan Jefferson, author of "Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age"“Risk Work promises to be an important, eye-opening, and potentially field-transforming contribution to the ongoing historicization of progressive, activist art in the US. Gleisser reorganizes the most basic templates for understanding conceptual and performance art, while presenting an insistent appeal to acknowledge and call out whiteness. I am nearly in awe of the text. Its radically original approach demonstrates its hermeneutic value immediately and incontrovertibly.” -- Matthew Jesse Jackson, author of "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes""With Risk Work, Gleisser cleverly frames a compelling discourse around artists' actions in public space as they relate to the politics of the racialized and gendered body, punitive literacy, and risk-taking. By assessing key legislation, political events, city development policies, policing, and media portrayals alongside art historical feedback and reception, Gleisser provides a comprehensive consideration of the privileges and risks inherent in performance art, and their legibility, both within public space and the art world." -- Allison Glenn, curator and writerTable of ContentsIntroduction. Punitive Literacy and Risk Work 1 Hit-and-Run Aesthetics: Asco, Chris Burden, and Relational Geographies of Risk, 1971–1976 2 Deputized Discernment: Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, and the Politics of Antiloitering Laws, 1974–1978 3 Rethinking Endurance: Pope.L, Tehching Hsieh, and Surviving Safety, 1978–1983 4 “¿Why Won’t You See Us?”: The Guerrilla Girls, PESTS, and the Limits of Anonymity, 1985–1987 Epilogue. At the Edges of Guerrilla Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Architecture and Choreography
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsâunique interdisciplinary encounters and performed events generated through collaborations between architects and choreographers.Forty case studies spanning four decades give evidence of the range of motivations for embarking on these creative endeavors and diverse conceptual underpinnings, generative methods, objects of inquiry, and outcomes. Architecture and Choreography builds histories and theories through which to examine these works, the contexts within, and processes through which the works emerged, and the critical questions they raise about ways to work together, sites and citations, ethics and equity, control and agency. Three themes frame pairs of chapters. The first addresses disciplinarity through works that critically reflect upon their disciplineâs tools, techniques, and conventions juxtaposed against projects that cite or use other art forms and cultural phenomena as source material. The second interrogates space and the role of spatial dispositifs, institutions, and sites, and their hidden and not-so-hidden conditions, as conceptual drivers and structures to subvert, trouble, unsettle, remember. The third asks who and what dances, finding a spectrum from mobilized architectural bodies to more-than-human cybarcorps. Modes of collaboration and the temporalities and life cycles of projects inform bookending chapters.Architecture and Choreography offers vital lessons not only for architects and choreographers but also for students and practitioners across design and performance fields.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Anthology of Womens Theatre Theory
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Anthology of Women''s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women's writing within, and also reframes the field's male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women's consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artTable of Contents1. FIVE MEDIEVAL WOMEN: St. Perpetua (c. 185–203), Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Hadewijch (c. 1200–1250), Katherine Sutton (d. 1376), Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438)Andrew Galloway2. HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM (c. 935–1002)Andrew Galloway3. MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH (c.1623–1673)Sujata Iyengar and Mikaela Warner4. APHRA BEHN (1640–1689)Joseph Roach5. ANNE FINCH (1661–1720)Christina Black6. SUSANNA CENTLIVRE (c. 1669–1723)Gillian Skinner7. CHARLOTTE LENNOX (1729–1804)Elizabeth Kraft8. CHARLOTTE CHARKE (1713–1760)Molly Marotta9. FRANCES BURNEY (1752–1840)Serena Baiesi10. HANNAH COWLEY (1743–1809)Melinda C. Finberg and Angela Escott11. LADY EGLANTINE WALLACE (c. 1754–1803)Lilla Maria Crisafulli12. SALLY SIDDONS (1775–1803)Laura Engel13. ELIZABETH INCHBALD (1753–1821)Lisa A. Freeman14. JOANNA BAILLIE (1762–1851)Thomas C. Crochunis15. FELICIA HEMANS (1793–1835)Diego Saglia16. ADELAIDE O’KEEFFE (1776–1865)Donelle Ruwe17. SARAH SIDDONS (1755–1831)Daniel O’Quinn18. “ANONYMOUS”Marjean D. Purinton19. MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787–1855)Serena Baiesi20. AMELIA CHESSON (1833–1902)Tracy C. Davis21. FRANCES A. KEMBLE (1809–1893)Catherine Burroughs22. OLIVE LOGAN (1839–1909)Merritt Denman Popp23. MICHAEL FIELD [KATHARINE HARRIS BRADLEY (1846–1914) AND EDITH EMMA COOPER (1861–1913)]Jill R. Ehnenn24. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935)Andrew Tolle25. PHYLLIS ROBBINS (1883–1972)Kim Marra26. LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY (1852–1932)Marjorie Howes27. EDITH CRAIG (1869–1947)Katharine Cockin28. CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN (1871–1960)Lesley Ferris29. BINODINI DASI (1862–1941)Aparna Dharwadker30. FLORENCE KIPER (1886–1976)Sharon Friedman31. MAY ISABEL FISK (1872–1955)Jennifer Schmidt32. DJUNA BARNES (1892–1982)Nick Salvato33. SOPHIE TREADWELL (1885–1970)Jerry Dickey34. VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)Shilo McGiff 35. ELIZABETH ROBINS (1862–1952)Joanne Gates36. LENA ASHWELL (1872–1957)Maggie Gale37. CONSTANCE ROURKE (1885–1941)Charlotte M. Canning38. CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER (1899–1979)Jennifer Schmidt39. GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946)Scott W. Klein 40. SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948)J. Ellen Gainor and Elizabeth A. Osborne41. HALLIE FLANAGAN (1889–1969)Elizabeth A. Osborne42. JOAN LITTLEWOOD (1914–2002)Fatine Bahar Karlidağ 43. ALICE CHILDRESS (1916–1994)Meenakashi Ponnuswami44. ANN JELLICOE (1927–2017)Kate Pierson45. BARBARA ANN TEER (1937–2008)La Donna L. Forsgren46. JUDITH MALINA (1926–2015)Kate Bredeson47. ROSE YUEN OW (1895–?)Krystyn Moon48. MARGUERITE DURAS (1914–1996)Shelley Orr49. MEGAN TERRY (1932–2023)Maya Roth50. DOROTHY HEWETT (1923–2002)Aoise Stratford51. MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS (1930–2018)Linda Ben-Zvi52. JANE CHAMBERS (1937–1983)Sara Warner53. ELFRIEDE JELINEK (b.1946)Anke Charton54. SUE-ELLEN CASE (b.1942)Penny Farfan55. ADRIENNE KENNEDY (b.1931)Maya E. Roth56. LIZ LOCHHEAD (b.1947)Aoise Stratford57. CONSTANCE CONGDON (b.1944)Ryan Platt58. ELIZABETH MACLENNAN (1938–2015)Gioia Angeletti59. MONSTROUS REGIMENT (1975–1993)Elaine Aston60. JILL DOLAN (b.1957)Jessica Del Vecchio61. THE DIVINA PROJECT (1989–1998)Juliet Guzzetta62. NEHAD SELAIHA (1945–2017)Marvin Carlson 63. PEGGY PHELAN (b.1959)Daniel Sack64. SUZAN-LORI PARKS (b.1963)Kristen Wright65. KATE BORNSTEIN (b.1948)Kara Raphaeli66. ELIN DIAMOND (b. 1948)Jen-Scott Mobley67. HÉLÈNE CIXOUS (b.1937)Rachel Morris Watson68. MĨCERE GĨTHAE MŨGO (1942–2023)Kellen Hoxworth69. DIANE GLANCY (b.1941)Birgit Däwes70. LOIS WEAVER (b.1949)Benjamin Gillespie71. JUDITH THOMPSON (b.1954)Erica Stevens Abbitt72. CHERRÍE MORAGA (b.1952)Lindsay Cummings73. AMAL ALLANA (b.1947)Aparna Dharwadker74. NAOMI WALLACE (b.1960)Lindsay B. Cummings75. MOJISOLA ADEBAYO (b.1971)Kellen Hoxworth76. LAUREN GUNDERSON (b.1982)Noelia Hernando-Real77. SARAH RUHL (b.1974)Amy Muse78. ELAINE ASTON (b.1958)Geraldine Harris79. DAME HARRIET WALTER (b.1950)Rosemary Malague80. CATHERINE KODICEK (b.1972)Katherine Gurnos-Davies81. SPIDERWOMAN THEATER (1976–) AND MURIEL MIGUEL (b.1937)Lilian Mengesha82. EMMA RICE (b.1967)Siouxsie Easter83. PAULA VOGEL (b.1951)Meghan Brodie84. ELAINE ROMEROJimmy A. Noriega85. VELINA HASU HOUSTON (b.1957)Eunha Na86. QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES (b.1977) and GABRIELA SERENA SANCHEZJ. Ellen Gainor87. WINSOME PINNOCK (b.1961)Gabriele Griffin88. TAKEMOTO KOSHIKÔ (b.1953)Maki Isaka89. ÉMILIE MONNET (b.1979)Lindsay LaChance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Stage Musicals
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater discourse in the English-speaking world.Each entry summarises a show, including a full synopsis, discussion of the creators'' process, show''s critical reception, and its impact on the landscape of musical theater.This is the ideal primer for students of musical theater its performance, history, and place in the modern theatrical world as well as fans and lovers of musicals.Table of Contents1. The Black Crook by Sebastian Trainor2. HMS Pinafore by Richard and Rupert Holmes3. The Merry Widow by Andrew Child4. Shuffle Along by Jerrell L. Henderson5. Show Boat by Benjamin Nissen 6. Of Thee I Sing by Laura Frankos 7. Anything Goes by Scott Miller8. Porgy and Bess by Isaiah Wooden9. The Cradle Will Rock by Johanna Pinzler10. Pal Joey by Laurence Maslon11. Oklahoma by Kevin David Thomas12. Guys and Dolls by Thomas S. Hischak13. The Threepenny Opera by Lauren Mack14. My Fair Lady by Peter Filichia15. West Side Story by Jennifer Delac16. Gypsy by Robert W. Schneider17. The Fantasticks by David Arthur18. Hello Dolly by Phillip Fazio19. Fiddler on the Roof by Beth Burrier20. Cabaret by Bruce Kimmel 21. Hair by Wes Drummond22. Promises, Promises by David Spencer23. Company by Rick Pender24. No No Nanette (1971) by Robert W. Schneider25. The Wiz by David Ward 26. A Chorus Line by Ron Fassler27. Annie by Charles Kirsch28. Sweeney Todd by Alison Morooney29. Ain’t Misbehavin by Richard Dueñez Morrison30. Dreamgirls by Bill Russell31. Cats by Stephen Mo Hanan 32. La Cage Aux Folles by Robert W. Schneider33. Les Miserables by Robert Meffe34. The Phantom of the Opera by Susan Russell35. Miss Saigon by Jeanmarie Higgins36. The Secret Garden by Elizabeth Bonjean37. Falsettos by Jack Lechner38. Beauty and the Beast by Eden Hildebrand 39. Grease (1994) by Mark Madama40. Rent by Jordan Dragutsky41. Seussical by Nathan Brewer42. The Producers by Kasey RT Graham43. Mamma Mia by Malcolm Womack44. Wicked by Lauren Haughton Gillis45. Jersey Boys by Jamie Buxton46. In The Heights by Devon Hunt47. Next to Normal by Joe Dziemianowicz48. Fun Home by Courtney Laine Self49. Hamilton by W. Jerome Stevenson50. Dear Evan Hansen by Frederick D. Miller
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The American Musical
Book SynopsisThe American Musical is a comprehensive history of an American art form. It delivers a detailed and definitive portrait of the American musical's artistic evolution over the course of seven distinct, newly defined eras, with a unique perspective gleaned from research at more than twenty different archives across the United States.Individual in both its approach and coverage, The American Musical traces the form's creative journey from its 19th century beginnings, through its 20th century maturation, and to the turn of the 21st century, shedding new light on a myriad of authors, directors, and craftspeople who worked on Broadway and beyond. This book actively addresses the form's often overlooked female and African-American artists, provides an in-depth accounting of such outside influences as minstrelsy, vaudeville, nightclubs, and burlesque, and explores the dynamic relationship between the form and the consciousness of its country.The American
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Jukebox Musical
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners. Providing a concise exploration of the three main categories of the jukebox musicalbiographical, genre-specific, and artist catalogthis text is perfect for those wishing to learn more about this relatively recent and unique genre of theater. It identifies the dramaturgical needs that arise in these productions and explains how certain works become critical darlings or fan favorites. How much information needs to be conveyed through song and how much can be left up to interpretation by the audience? What kinds of changes occur when a repertoire of songs is reimagined for the stage? In addition to these insightful explorations, it also reveals how creative teams tackle the unique challenge of weaving together plot and song in order to convey meaning, emotion, Table of ContentsPart 1: Historical and Dramaturgical 1. Five, Six, Seven, Eight!: An Introduction 2. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Jukebox Musical 3. Preludes and Predecessors: Vaudeville, Rock Musicals, and Megamusicals 4. Mamma Mia! and the Establishment of a Form Part 2: Types of Jukebox Musicals 5. Exploring a Discography: Artist Catalog Jukebox Musicals 6. A Life in Lyrics: Biographical Jukebox Musicals 7. Reminiscing about the Classics: Era- and Genre-Specific Musicals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 20 Seasons Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century
Book Synopsis20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season.This book is the first to comprehensively examine the musicals that premiered on Broadway during this important historical period, which was bookended by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on one end and the Coronavirus pandemic on the other. It begins by exploring the historical context for the first 20 years of the 21st century and how this impacted American culture and theatre. Rather than chronologically, the musicals are then organized into categories based on their source material and whether they were original musicals or revivals, painting a detailed picture of the Broadway musical in first 20 years of the 21st century. Jukebox musicals, screen-to-stage musicals, revivals, and other original musicals are all covered, and each chapter ends with reading guides and discussion promptTable of ContentsI. Foreword by Diep Tran II. Introduction: 20 Seasons by the Numbers 1. 20 Years/20 Seasons 2. An Introduction to Original Musicals 3. Jukebox Musicals and Revues 4. Screen to Stage Musicals 5. Other Original Musicals 6. Revivals and Remounts 7. Beyond 20 Seasons Appendix A. Shows by Opening Date Appendix B. Shows by Number of Performances
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dance Research Methodologies
Book SynopsisDance Research Methodologies: Ethics, Orientations, and Practices captures the breadth of methodological approaches to research in dance in the fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences by bringing together researchers from around the world writing about a variety of dance forms and practices.This book makes explicit the implicit skills and experiences at work in the research processes by detailing the ethics, orientations, and practices fundamental to being a researcher across the disciplines of dance. Collating together approaches from key subdisciplines, this book brings together perspectives on dance practice, dance studies, dance education, dance science, as well as dance research in cross-, multi-, and interdisciplinary fields. Practice-based chapters cover methodological approaches that provide rich examples of how research design and implementation are navigated by practicing scholars. Dance Research Methodologies also includes a practical workbook that helps readers to decide upon, refine, and enact their research, as well as develop ways in which to communicate their process and outcomes.This vital textbook is a valuable resource for research faculty interested in interdisciplinary conversation and practice, emerging scholars honing their methodological approaches, graduate students engaged in research-based coursework and projects, and advanced undergraduates.Trade Review"Candelario and Henley offer an array of reading possibilities that could be used across courses to introduce and explore research in its multitude of approaches seen in dance, simultaneously challenging thinking about research and practice... This text will surely become a vital addition to academics and students of dance." Monica J. Cameron Frichtel, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, USA"Both inspiring and instructive, Dance Research Methods captures the diversity of today’s dance scholarship and offers an array of methodological possibilities that will surely lead to research trajectories yet to be discovered. Reminding us that dance theory and dancemaking practices are always intersecting and shaping the myriad ways that we create and present new knowledge, experienced and aspiring researchers using this text will enter into an ever-widening conversation about praxis inquiry, artful research practices, the importance of ethical decision-making, and the joys of pursuing research as a creative and artistic enterprise." Penelope Hanstein, MFA, PhD, Cornaro Professor of Dance Emerita, Texas Woman’s University, USA"While some of the meticulous and rigorously curated essays contain pre-requisite standard approaches that are nourishing, there are many where scholarship itself is critiqued and stretched to include an invaluable selection of voices, grammars, registers, provocations, and contexts, making this a standout book for scholars in the pursuit of inclusive (as yet elusive) dance research methodologies. Imbuing this impressive assembly of work with a sustained call for pervasive ethics is a compelling masterstroke for our times." Jay Pather, Director, Institute for Creative Arts, Professor, Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa"Dance Research Methodologies includes comprehensive and detailed step-by-step methods, conversations, and personal reflections on ‘how to’ do dance research across myriad themes. Providing a wealth of different approaches in an accessible format, it is an invaluable resource for dance researchers, from undergraduate to post-doctoral." Sarah Whatley, Director, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK"The book functions like a set of hyperlinks that organize leaping off points to follow up in references and ideas across the diverse field of dance research. This wide-ranging collection highlights differences between 'research' versus 'creating work' or 'rehearsing,' and introduces archival research for where no archive exists, prompts for writing as dancing, ethics as research method, and other gems." Jonathan W. Marshall, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1. Dance Research in/as Communities of PracticeRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley2. Research Ethics, Orientations, and PracticesRosemary Candelario and Matthew HenleyPart 2: Dance Practice3. Introduction to Research in Dance Practice: Practice-as-ResearchVida Midgelow4. Choreographies of Presence: Improvisation as Feminist PracticeJo Pollitt5. Community Dance and Collection Creation: Art, Health, and Social Development Across the HemisphereAurelia Chillemi and Victoria Fortuna6. FutureBlackSpace: Weaving Art, Healing, and ActivismJohn-Paul Zaccarini7. Practice (or) Research: A Conversation with Eiko OtakeRosemary Candelario and Eiko OtakePart 3: Dance Studies8. Introduction to Research in Dance Studies: Dance as a HumanityThomas DeFrantz9. Choreographic Analysis as Dance Studies Methodology: Cases, Expansions, and CritiquesHarmony Bench, Rosemary Candelario, J. Lorenzo Perillo, and Cristina Fernandes Rosa10. Global South Archives: Listening and Acknowledging AuthorshipAna Paula Höfling11. Cyphering with Oral HistoryMiRi Park12. To the Motion Itself: Towards a Phenomenological Methodology of Dance ResearchNigel StewartPart 4: Dance Education13. Introduction to Research in Dance Education: New Pathways to DiscoveryLynnette Young Overby14. Towards a Decolonial Dance Research Paradigm: Ubuntu as Qualitative Hermeneutic PhenomenologyAlfdaniels Mabingo15. Ethnography for Research in Dance Education: Global, Decolonial, and Somatic AspirationsOjeya Cruz Banks16. Conducting an Experiment: How Quantifying Answers to a Question can Promote the Value of Dance Education.Lynnette Young Overby and Matthew Henley17. Classroom as Laboratory: Teacher Self-Study and Dance Education Ilana Morgan18. Mixing Methods and Approaches in Dance Education ResearchMatthew HenleyPart 5: Dance Science19. Introduction to Research in Dance Science: The Science of Movement and Choreography of Research – Evolving Methodologies in Dance ScienceMargaret Wilson20. Mentoring Dance Science Research: Circling the Square– Edel Quin in Conversation with Margaret WilsonEdel Quin and Margaret Wilson21. Thinking Statistically for Dance ResearchGregory Youdan Jr.22. A Dance/Movement Therapy Approach to Interview AnalysisTomoyo Kawano23. Carving an Innovative Space for Dialogic Intersections: Dance, Disability, and DesignMerry Lynn MorrisPart 6: Dance Research Beyond Disciplines24. Introduction to Dance Research Beyond Disciplines: Extending Dance-based Ways of KnowingRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley25. Strange Bedfellows: Dance Studies, Academic Disciplines, and Truth in CrisisJanet O’Shea26. Keeping Movement at the Center as we Dance into Interdisciplinary ResearchAdesola AkinleyePart 727. A Creative Workbook for Rehearsing Ethics, Orientations, and PracticesRosemary Candelario and Matthew Henley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Improvised Theatre
Book SynopsisCreating Improvised Theatre: Tools, Techniques, and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation is a complete guide to improvised theatre for performers and instructors.This book provides a modern view of improvised theatre based on the rapid evolution of this art form, shedding new light on classic theories as well as developing lesser known and emerging techniques, such as the Trance Mask. Instead of simply referencing classic theories, the book revisits them and places them in the context of contemporary improvisation techniques. Designed as a practical support, this guide contains over 130 exercises that allow its theories to come alive in workshops, rehearsals, and performance. The book is divided into four sections: Nuts and bolts: The fundamental tools of improvisation to explore how to be spontaneously creative, build with your partner, and learn from masks to discover your scene instant by instant. Short Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Nuts and Bolts 2. The basics 3. Spontaneous creativity 4. Creating with others 5. Masks and the art of being in the present Part 2: Short Form 6. Introducing short form 7. What’s the story? 8. Playing the platform and detecting tilts 9. Riding the rollercoaster to the end 10. The three change tools and Status 11. Physical change 12. Emotional change 13. Mischief and provoking change Part 3: Narrative Improvisation 14. What is narrative improvisation? 15. Narrative theories 16. The Initial world – locations and relations 17. The Initial world – calls and protagonists 18. Making choices to Get in trouble 19. The Crisis – ordeal and understanding 20. The Climax and the End world 21. Transitions 22. Narrative archetypes 23. Final tips for narrative improvisation Part 4: The Bits Box 24. Useful "bits" 25. Warm-ups 26. Over to you
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Taylor & Francis Fifty Key Performance Artists
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Taylor & Francis Devising Theatre A Practical and Theoretical
Book SynopsisA practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.Trade Review'This book should certainly act as an intellectual and practical stimulus to persons involved in experimental theatre or to teaches of drama in general.' - Reference Reviews'Devising Theatre provides an excellent insight into a particular way of making theatre and will be of interest both to those who wish to devise theatre and those who simply want to find out how some of the most exciting theatre in Britain over the past twenty years has been created.' - Theatre ScotlandTable of ContentsList of illustrations. Preface. 1. An Introduction to Devised Theatre 2. Beginnings: How and where to start 3. Process: Ways and means of making theatre 4. From Process to Product: Relationship and practice 5. From Process to Product: The participatory theatre-in-education programme 6 .Space: Site-specific theatre 7. Theory and Practice 8. Learning to Devise: Practical ideas and suggestions Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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Taylor & Francis My New Gender Workbook
Book SynopsisThis updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, offering an accessible foundation for examining gender in the reader's life and in the broader culture while arguing for the dismantling of all forms of oppression. For fans of the original, Bornstein's new material merits a fresh read...--Publishers Weekly, starred review Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to ETrade Review"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, offering an accessible foundation for examining gender in the reader's life and in the broader culture while arguing for the dismantling of all forms of oppression. For fans of the original, Bornstein's new material merits a fresh read..."--Publishers Weekly, starred review Table of Contents1. Welcome to Your New Gender Workbook 2. Finding Gender. Arrrr, There Be Pirates! 3. Let X=X 4. Let Why Equal Why 5. There's Only One Gender: Yours 6. SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! 7. Get Ready to Do Your Gender 8. Do Your Gender Mindfully 9. The Missing Piece Is Nothing, and We're Going to Find It Nowhere 10. OK, Now What?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Archaeologies of Presence
Book SynopsisArchaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions: What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence? How is presence achieved through theatrical performance? What makes a memory come alive and live again? How is presence connected with identity? Is presence synonymous with ''being in the moment''? What is the nature of the co-presence' of audience and performer? Where does performance practice end and its documentation begin? Co-edited by performance specialists Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye, and archaeologist Michael ShTrade Review‘Comprised of contributions from theorists and practitioners, external case-study analyses and internal reflections, and utilizing theoretical and performative modes of writing, alongside interviews, Archaeologies of Presence is a stimulating, enjoyable, varied and accessible publication… it is a delightfully produced publication to be found on the bookshelves of students, researchers, practitioners, theorists and enthusiasts alike.’– Studies in Theatre and Performance, Hannah CummingsTable of Contents1 Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks Introduction: Archaeologies of Presence Being Here: place and time 2 Josette Féral, How to Define Presence Effects: the Work of Janet Cardiff 3 Gabriella Giannachi Environmental Presence 4 Rebecca Schneider Performance Remains Again 5 Jon Erickson Tension/Release and the Production of Time in Performance Being Before: stage and gaze 6 Erika Fischer-Lichte Appearing As Embodied Mind – Defining a weak, a strong and a radical concept of presence 7 Phillip Zarrilli ‘…presence…’ as a question and emergent possibility: a case study from the performer’s perspective 8 Simon Jones Out-Standing Standing-Within: being alone together in the work of Bodies in Flight 9 Nicholas Ridout Mis-spectatorship, or, ‘redistributing the sensible’ 10 Tim Etchells, Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye Looking Back: a conversation about presence, 2006 Traces: after presence 11 Amelia Jones Temporal Anxiety/’Presence’ in absentia: experiencing performance as documentation 12 Lynn Hershman Leeson and Michael Shanks Here and Now 13 Nick Kaye Photographic presence: time and the image 14 Mike Pearson Neither Here nor There….
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Performance Art
Book SynopsisRoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator specializing in modern and contemporary performance art. Goldberg has curated the work of many prominent artists from Philip Glass to Cindy Sherman, and in 2004 founded Performa, a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to the research, development, and presentation of twenty-first-century visual art performance.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Bertolt Brecht
Book SynopsisBertolt Brechtâs methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a signiïcant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brechtâs life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a ïrst step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.Trade Review'This is a very useful volume which goes far beyond its ambit as a mere introduction. It offers novel, perceptive, and enlivening insights into the very practical concerns a student may have about Brecht without dismissing the theories as irrelevant appendages to the plays.' - Modern Language Review 'What makes Meg Mumford's new text, Bertolt Brecht, a 'must have' - especially for secondary educators and theatre students - is that here, all these angles are concisely drawn together with an accessible tone and structure, and with pithy key points of analysis... This book exhibits depth as well as clarity... This is a thorough, informative read for theatre educators and students, and a great read in terms of an illustrated twentieth-century life story.' - M/C Reviews'Mumford offers brilliant explanations of difficult Brechtian theoretical concepts' - Choice'Meg Mumford covers ample ground with a sure footedness that has left this reviewer smiling with delight. A wish to demystify Brecht, to prise him out of the political or literary clutches of the jargonists, has motivated my teaching for more than thirty years, but I never managed it as effectively as this.' - Studies in Theatre Production'... Brecht’s changing and contradictory writings on Gestus and Verfremdung are successfully explored within the context of her fascinating case study of the 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle ...'- New Theatre Quarterly, Tom Cantrell'The book can be highly recommended to students new to Brecht, and also to teachers: I found the practical workshop worked brilliantly with a group of first year undergraduates in what was for many their first practical exploration of Brecht’s work.'- New Theatre Quarterly, Tom Cantrell‘Mumford achieves a rare clarity and specificity in her discussions of Gestus and Verfremdung ...’ - The Brecht Yearbook, Julie JacksonTable of Contents1. A LIFE OF FLUX Which Brecht? On the make: from Bavaria to Berlin (1898–1924) Changing the world: Weimar politics (1924–33) On the run: exile in Europe and America (1933–47) Building a collective: Brecht in the GDR (1947–56) Brecht today? 2. BRECHT’S KEY THEORIES Brecht in dialogue Brecht’s key concerns Getting the gist of Gestus Verfremdung and V-effects Historicization: questioning the present through the past The modern theatre is the epic theatre Dialectics in the theatre Brecht’s socialist realism: imitation meets experimentation Conclusion 3. THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE: A MODEL PRODUCTION Prologue: a model A historicizing epic A Berliner Ensemble show Epilogue: ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating’ 4. PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND WORKSHOP Preparing for spectActorship Section One: remembering exercises from the past Section Two: a workshop for Brechtians Conclusion
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City Lights Books COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope
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Cambridge University Press Playwriting Dramaturgy and Space
Book SynopsisThis Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based theatre, both its scripts and productions, now creates and expects a spatialized imaginary and demonstrates the potentials of text-based theatre in an increasingly visual and spatial field of cultural production.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Scene: Plays and Playwrights; 1. Playwriting and Space; 2. Caryl Churchill: Shapeshifting and Superimposition; 3. Naomi Iizuka: Simultaneity and Permeability; 4. Sarah Ruhl: Layering and Flight; 5. Form and Tradition; References.
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Cambridge University Press Empire Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022
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Cambridge University Press Adaptations in the Life and Work of Director Tian Qinxin
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Taylor & Francis Dancing in the World
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Taylor & Francis Race Gender and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civic Performance
Book SynopsisCivic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London.This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor's Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, aTable of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Civic to Global 1. ‘To the Honour of our Nation abroad’: The Merchant as Adventurer in Civic Pageantry 2. Locating the Rhinoceros and Indian: Strangers, Trade, and East India Company in Thomas Heywood’s Porta Pietatis 3. "Cleopatra in Her Barge": Anne Boleyn’s Coronation Pageants and the Production of English Cultural Capital 4. The Unspoken Language of Aliens, or the Spectacular Conversation between Visiting English and Dutch that Transcended Time and Space Part II: Material Encounters 5.The Social and Political Dynamics of the Lord Mayor’s Show, c. 1550-1700 6. Arion’s Harp, Apollo’s Lute: The Instrumental Sounds of London’s Lord Mayors’ Shows 7. Financial Encounter Customs: Tradition and Form in London’s Civic Pageantry Part III: Methodologies for Re-viewing Performance 8. The Duke of Lennox and Civic Entertainments 9. Stephen Harrison’s The Arches of Triumph (1604) and James I’s Royal Entry in the London Literary Marketplace 10. Musical Transformations of the City Soundscape: King James I’s Entry into London in 1604 11. Building a Digital Geospatial Anthology of the Mayoral Shows Index
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Taylor & Francis Milestones in Queer US Theatre
Book SynopsisThis introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped this ever-changing field across the past two centuries, through ten key moments and movements.Designed for weekly use in queer and LGBTQ+ theatre courses, the ten chosen milestones move chronologically from nineteenth century shifts in the understanding of homosexuality through the queer postmodernist avant-garde to the rise of intersectionality and recognition of trans identities. This clear, dynamic framework uses âqueerâ as a flexible and intersectional term, addressing sexualities and sexual identities, the people and groups who claim them, and the practices that challenge heteronormative structures.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Improv Dictionary
Book SynopsisThe Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity.This accessible resource reveals and interrogates the inherited wisdoms contained in the very words we use to describe modern improv. Each detailed definition goes beyond the obvious clichés and seeks a nuanced and inclusive understanding of how art of the moment can be much more than easy laughs and cheap gags (even when it is being delightfully irreverent and wildly funny). This encyclopedic work pulls from a wide array of practitioners and practices, finding tensions and commonalities from styles as diverse as Theatresports, Comedysportz, the Harold, narrative long-form, Playback Theatre, and Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Entries include nuanced definitions, helpful examples, detailed explorations of the concepts in practice,
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Taylor & Francis Philosophy Analytic Aesthetics and Theater
Book SynopsisBringing together the latest research and perspectives in the fields of analytic philosophy and theater studies, this collection of essays provides a reflection of how these two fields have emerged and intersected in the twenty-first century.With contributions from leading scholars in the field and emerging voices, Philosophy, Analytic Aesthetics, and Theater provides new insights into the field of philosophy and theater. Structured in three parts, Part I, Epistemology, explores perspectives on theater as a knowledge-making system, the conventions of theater, and reflects on current practice that engages with aesthetics. Part II, Politics and Ethics, draws on an evaluation of the ways in which theater and democracy interact, as well as the current conversations around ethical issues within the performance space. And finally, Part III, Theater and Other Arts, takes a look at the ways in which philosophy has interacted with the art of dance, musical theater, and film, lo
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Taylor & Francis Jatinder Verma
Book SynopsisJatinder Verma has been a pioneering figure in the development of British South Asian theatre, and a prominent spokesperson for the importance of increased diversity amongst playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and producers on the mainstream British stage. As co-founder and former Artistic Director of Tara Arts, he developed a new aesthetic style known as 'Binglish' which creates a hybrid dramaturgy of languages, training and performance forms, and styles of acting, and design, that operates to establish a negotiation between cultures which reflects contemporary Britain. Verma is acknowledged as being a leading practitioner and director, as well as writer about theatre and culture, who has transformed the face of theatre in Britain and internationally.This book combines:â a detailed biography giving the social and artistic context of Vermaâs work and his work with Tara Arts;â an exploration of Vermaâs own writings on âBinglishâ, including his use of a ran
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing the Nonhuman
Book SynopsisThis book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its representation, the human figure, is identical with its conventional object, the human narrative, broadly considered. In order to respond ethically to the climate crisis, it must expand its range to include performing as/in response to the nonhuman. Conrad Alexandrowicz concisely explores theoretical approaches to the other-than-human, found in the work of, among others, Jane Bennett, Timothy Morton, Rosi Braidotti, and Cary Wolfe. The implications of this move are far-reaching and commence with displacing realism from its traditional position of dominance. The practices of 20th century physical theatre visionaries such as Tadeusz Kantor, Jacques Lecoq, and Jerzy Grotowski are revisited and reconsidered for their applicability to for
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Taylor & Francis Researching Popular Entertainment
Book SynopsisResearching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field. The often-dismissed status of popular entertainment, coupled with its reliance on physicality and improvisation over scripted performances, has meant archival and textual sources tend to be more limited than in related theatre and performance disciplines. This scarcity requires historians to find alternative pathways through the available materials to recuperate seemingly insignificant figures and performance forms from our cultural past. This book provides a candid look into the research processes of its authors, highlighting some of the approaches they have adopted to overcome these challenges. It emphasises that reading performance as entertainment is a deliberate methodological choice. Regardless of whether a w
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Taylor & Francis Art Movement and Disability
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Taylor & Francis Performing Womanhood in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisPerforming Womanhood in Eastern Europe explores a distinctive form of womanhood that emerged in post-World War II Eastern Europe, offering an alternative to Western typologies.This work interweaves theatre history with personal narratives while addressing contemporary issues that continue to resonate. In Eastern Europe's patriarchal landscape, the stage has become a vital space for authentic critical analysis and introspection, with women's previously silenced voices now taking center stage. The book examines performances and dramatic works by creators from Romania, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova, and former Yugoslavia, revealing how they represent female experiences within Eastern Europe's complex geopolitical environment. It questions whether theatrical expression can bridge the feminist divide between East and West, and if performance spaces might serve as forums where marginalized narratives and multidirectional memories can be renegotiated. Ultimately, it explores how the personal can reclaim its political dimension, allowing womanhood in all its manifestations to be performed authentically, either shielded from or actively challenging the male gaze.This book will particularly appeal to scholars of Eastern European studies, feminist theatre historians, and performance artists interested in gendered cultural expression across post-communist spaces.
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Taylor & Francis The Adaptable Degree
Book SynopsisThis book utilized a mixed-methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction.With a population of over 1,000 participants, this study examined where graduates were working, how their careers had changed over time, which skills acquired with their theatre degree were being used in current employment, and whether they believed their course of study was worth the financial investment, given their current circumstances. Evidence from this study revealed that a theatre degree provided many of the skills the employment market is currently seeking and that theatre graduates were gainfully employed in multiple sectors of the economy.This important data-based, field-specific information will aid chairs, deans, provosts, politicians, students and parents in deicision-making at a time when arts and humanities departments across the country are under the threat of elimination
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Taylor & Francis The Physically Disabled Dancer and the
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while at the same time challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphasis on the learning-disabled performer.This is the first book ever written by a physically disabled dancer on the subject of physically disabled dancers. Inherent in this examination is the model of examining disability that is most closely associated with the disability arts movement which is the âaffirmative model of disabilityâ. This model is defined as an approach to disability in which the disabled person is neither an object of medical care nor a victim of social indifference but a self-respecting, autonomous individual in which their disability is a positive and affirming aspect of their self-identity. The book, based on interviews with physically disabled dancers, choreographers, academics and arts producers all in a UK cont
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Taylor & Francis Staging Monstrous Bodies
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Taylor & Francis Australian Musical Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Zombies Werewolves Robots and Extraterrestrials
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Cambridge University Press Real Theatre
Book SynopsisTheatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Theatre, Paul Rae takes a joined-up approach to the realities of theatre to explain why performances take the forms they do, and what effects they have. Drawing on examples ranging from Phantom of the Opera and Danny Boyle''s Frankenstein, to the performances of the Wooster Group and arthouse director Tsai Ming-liang, he shows how apparently discrete theatrical events emerge from dynamic and often unpredictable social, technical and institutional assemblages. These events then enter a process of cultural circulation that, as Rae explains, takes many forms: fleeting conversations, the mercurial careers of theatrical characters and the composite personae of actors, and high-profile products like the Hollywood movie Birdman. The result is a real theatre that speaks of, and to, the idiosyncratic and cumulative experience of every theatre participant.Trade Review'Real Theatre is an elegant and entertaining read that makes a major contribution to debates around the realities of making - and watching - theatre. This is a book characterized by its willingness to engage seriously with the mass cultural forms of theatre that are so often overlooked by scholars, offering an analysis of the sophisticated ways in which audiences consume performance. A genuinely original and energetic approach to how we might conceptualise the theatre event, this book is a humane and richly insightful account of the peculiar realities that comprise theatrical performance.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London'It is the great strength and joy of Real Theatre that it recognizes that, whenever it comes to the matter of theatre, and sometimes most illuminatingly when it doesn't, that thing is forever and everywhere decidedly 'only theatre' and, as such, absolutely essential.' Alan Read, Modern DramaTable of ContentsIntroduction: the reality of theatre; Part I: 1. Realtheatrick: material theatres and ordinary magic; 2. That's entertainment: theatre and experience; Part II: 3. Theatre talk: the poetics of theatre at a distance; 4. Peak performance and the construction of theatrical truths; 5. Infratheatre: what theatre is when it's not quite theatre; 6. The theatre assembled: technical theatre in performance; 7. Theatre people: the actor and the unaccommodated man; Conclusion: real theatre studies?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music as a Chariot
Book SynopsisMusic as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music. Understanding how music enables the theatre experience helps to shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Beginning with a discussion on the origin and nature of time, the author takes us on an evolutionary journey to discover how music, language and mimesis co-evolved, eventually coming together to produce the complex way we experience theatre. The book integrates the evolutionary neuroscience of the human brain into this journey, offering practical implications and applications for the auditory expression of this conceptnamely the fundamental techniques artists use to create sound scores for theatre. With contributions from directors, playwrights, actors and designers, Music as a Chariot explores the use of music to carry ideas into the human soula concept that extends beyond the theatrical Table of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Why this Book?Introduction: An Ear Opening ExperienceOld School AestheticsWhen Sound Gets Divorced from MusicWho Should Read this BookOverview of the BookBibliographyTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesPart I: The Nature of TimeChapter 2: Let There Be a Big BangIntroduction: If a Tree Falls in the Universe…The Nature of Light and SoundThe Evolution of Hearing and SpeakingThe Evolution of the Brain Leads to the Ability to Express EmotionsEyes and Ears, Space and TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 3: The Great Mystery of Time Introduction: Babbling in BabelsbergThe Mammalian InvasionWe Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made of…The Relativity of TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyPart II: Music = Time ManipulatedChapter 4: What Is Music?Introduction: What’s in a Name?Music Is Organized SoundNarrowing Our Definition of MusicMusic Is Visual as Well as AudibleThe Elements of DesignEnergy CharacteristicsTemporal CharacteristicsSpatial CharacteristicsComplex Elements that Combine Energy in Time and SpaceThe Importance of These Elements of MusicA Proposed Definition of MusicTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 5: Primate NumbersIntroduction: Who’s on First?Music, Language and Mimesis: The Really Early YearsBipedal PrimatesTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyPart III: Song = Music + IdeaChapter 6: Campfire Songs (Rhythm and Entrainment)Introduction: Welcome HomoOne Giant Leap for MankindEarly HomoHomo ErectusRunning, Tempo, Pulse, Tactus and EntrainmentTempo, Pacing, Tactus, Entrainment and Theatre CompositionWhen Music Meets MimesisConclusionTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 7: Music and LanguageIntroduction: "All Theatre Starts with a Script"Brain GainsFantastic VoyageConclusion: Song = Music + IdeaTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 8: Consonance and Dissonance (The Evolution of Line)Introduction: The Roots of Who We BecomeThe Evolution of LineConsonance and DissonanceWhat is Consonance and Dissonance?Subcortical Consonance and Dissonance PerceptionCortical Consonance and Dissonance PerceptionConsonance and Dissonance in TheatreLine/MelodyHarmonyConclusion: Consonance and Dissonance and TimeTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyPart IV: Theatre = Song + MimesisChapter 9: Ritual, Arousal, Reward, EcstasyIntroduction: From High Mass to EcstasyThe Development of Ritual, Shamanism, and (Altered States of Consciousness)The Neuroscience of Arousal and Reward in the Altered States of Consciousness of Shamanism and TheatreIntroduction: Dreams, Altered States of Consciousness and TheatreThe Basic Neuroscience of ArousalThe Effect of Music on Physiological SystemsThe Effect of Music on Psychological SystemsCognitive Models for Music in TheatreRobert Thayer’s Model of Psychological MoodsBerlyne’s Theory of Arousal in Aesthetics and PsychobiologyConclusion: Experiments in EcstasyTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 10: Music, Mimesis, MemoryIntroduction: Traveling Backwards in TimeThe New Stone AgeMemoryIntroductionSensory MemoryLong Auditory Store/Short Term Memory/Working MemoryLong-Term MemoryCreating and Retrieving Long-Term MemoriesImplicit MemoryExplicit Episodic MemoryInvoluntary Explicit Episodic MemoryAutobiographical MemoryConclusion: The Origins of Theatre and the Problems of the Oral TraditionTen QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 11: The Bronze Age and the Invention of WritingIntroduction: Theatre Becomes DramaThe Bronze AgeThe Emergence of Written LanguageThe Transition from Oral Tradition to Recorded HistoryConclusion: Lost in Translation?Ten QuestionsThings to ShareNotesBibliographyChapter 12: Conclusion: Evolution and Greek TheatreIntroduction: A Case StudyThe Origins of Greek Music: Music = Time ManipulatedThe Development of Greek Song: Song = Music + IdeaMusic as Math Made Audible: The Greeks Revisit Consonance and DissonanceThe First Autocratic Theatre: Theatre = Song + MimesisPlato and His WorldAristotle’s TheatreConclusion of the ConclusionEleven Questions, Part I Eleven Questions, Part II Things to ShareNotesBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nonrepresentational Theory
Book SynopsisNon-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory refers to a key body of work that has emerged in geography over the past two and a half decades that emphasizes the importance of practice, embodiment, materiality, and process to the ongoing formation of social life. This title offers the first sole-authored, accessible introduction to this work and its impact on geography.Without being prescriptive the text provides a general explanation of what Non-representational Theory is. This includes discussion of the disciplinary context it emerged from, the key ideas and themes that characterise work associated with Non-representational Theory, and the theoretical points of reference that inspires it. The book then explores a series of conjunctions of Non-representational TheorTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Non-representational Theories and Geography 2. Non-representational Theories and Practice 3. Non-representational Theories and Affect 4. Non-representational Theories and Materiality 5. Non-representational Theories and Landscape 6. Non-representational Theories and Performance 7. Non-representational Theories and Method Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conceptual Performance
Book SynopsisConceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Conceptual Performance sets out the history, theoretical basis, and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance, as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so, this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score, document, embodiment, documentation, relic, remains, and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art's critiques ofTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Languages 3. Documents 4. Things 5. Infiltrations 6. Theatricalities 7. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance
Book SynopsisSpencer Hazel is Reader in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Newcastle University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theory for Theatre Studies Bodies
Book SynopsisHow does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to these questions by examining how theatre participates in and informs theories of the body in performance, race, queer, disability, trans, gender, and new media studies. Throughout the 20th century, theories of the body have shifted from understanding the body as irrefutable material evidence of race, sex, and gender, to a social construction constituted in language. In the same period, theatre has struggled with representing ideas through live bodies while calling into question assumptions about the body. This volume demonstrates how theatre contributes to understanding the historical, contemporary and burgeoning theories of the body. It explores how theories of the body inform debates about labor conditions and spatial configurations. Theatre allows performers to shift an audience'sTrade ReviewTheory for Theatre Studies: Bodies offers a rich survey of the body in performance through a broad and diverse range of examples that refer to wider socio-cultural movements and concerns yet are firmly placed in theatre practice. Soyica Diggs Colbert draws arguments fluently, shifting from illustration to illustration, theory to theory, with ease and in a way that remains focused for the reader. -- Josephine Machon, Middlesex University, UKSoyica Diggs Colbert’s extraordinary new book Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies is a comprehensive and complex consideration of the discontinuities of material and discursive theatrical histories from Medieval Drama to the contemporary period, which challenges scholars and artists to reconsider how embodied meaning is created by and through performance on stage. This game-changing text deftly argues that bodies carry meaning into every theatrical text and event and thus directly impact how shifting understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality and ability become inseparable facets through which modalities of power, economics and privilege are realized on and off stage. Colbert connects both theatrical and critical theoretical discourses of the acting body in Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies as she translates new possibilities of imagining, seeing and reading the body. This book unhinges notions of classical texts and is poised to become a 'must read' book for any artist, scholar and/or theater enthusiast who believes that equitable and inclusive theater is not only obtainable in the 21st century, but necessary for manifesting anti-racist futures. * Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas, USA *Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Bodies: An Introduction Section One: Historical Approaches to Theatre Theory Section Two: Extended Case Studies Section Three: Porous Bodies: New Interpretations References Further Reading Index
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