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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curating Opera
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Storytelling Performance
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Storytelling Performance
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Claytonâs reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Home and Away
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dancing with Georges Perec
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dance Research Methodologies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance and the Culture of Nationalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Improvised Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Playing with Food
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dramaturgy of Form
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fire Under My Feet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Puppet and Spirit Ritual Religion and Performing Objects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mythic Imagination and the Actor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mythic Imagination and the Actor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humor in Advertising
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space Time and Ways of Seeing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Problems of Viewing Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Performative Theatre
Book SynopsisPerformative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early twenty-first century. Annamaria Cascetta does not propose a model or a historical overview, but rather strives to identify the salient features of a significant trend in the theatrical research and transformation of our time by analysing some crucial examples from outstanding works, of great international resonance. She draws on work by artists from different generations, all active between the late twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first, and in various European countries, performed in a number of European theatres in recent years. The aim is to apply a method of analysis in depth, bringing out the technical elements of contemporary performative theatre in the field, and above all to highlight the close links between it and the urgent and troubled issues and problems of history andTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 The human journey. Odyssey by Robert Wilson. CHAPTER 2 A journey into mind and brain. From Je suis un phénomène to The Valley of Astonishment by Peter Brook. CHAPTER 3 Upending tradition: Christ and Aeschylus irrelevant? Romeo Castellucci's Orestea and Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio. CHAPTER 4 Christ's legacy: Golgota Picnic by Rodrigo Garcia: starting again from man or drowning in nothingness? CHAPTER 5 Anna Castoldi and Francesco Marzano: How to live together? From militarism and authoritarianism to the weapon of joy in Gaudeamus by Lev Dodin. CHAPTER 6 A school of democracy for an ever-changing identity: The Blind Poet by Jan Lauwers and Ça ira by Joël Pommerat. CHAPTER 7 Migration, artificiality and the city on the axis of time: Bodenprobe Kazachstan and Remote X (Remote Milano) by Rimini Protokoll. CHAPTER 8 Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood: The prophecy of a pioneer artist. CHAPTER 9 The body's dignity regained: MDLSX by Enrico Casagrande, Daniela Nicolò and Silvia Calderoni (Motos) and Bestie di scena by Emma Dante. CHAPTER 10 The beautiful and the true: from Orchidee to Vangelo, the salvational itinerary of Pippo Delbono. PHOTOS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mummers Plays Revisited Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances
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Taylor & Francis Incapacity and Theatricality Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Arts in Transition Moving between Media Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Movements of Interweaving
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere Eventbased Art in Late Socialist Europe Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theatre and Dictatorship in the LusoHispanic World
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Taylor & Francis Acting Spectating and the Unconscious
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Food and Theatre on the World Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Male Dancer
Book SynopsisThis revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography. In this authoritative and lively study, Ramsay Burt presents close readings of dance works from key moments of social and political change in the norms around gender and sexuality. The book's argument that prejudices against male dancers are rooted in our ideas about the male body and behaviour has been extended to take into account recent interdisciplinary discussions about whiteness, intersectionality, disability studies, and female masculinities. As well as analysing works by canonical figures like Nijinsky, Graham, Cunningham, and Bausch, it also examines the work of lesser-known figures like Michio Ito and Eleo Pomare, as well as choreographers who have recently emerged internationally like Germaine Acogny and Trajal Harrell. Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition:‘The fascination of this book lies in the way in which the author is ableto locate the male dancer in the broader socio-historic context of thetimes . . . a vital contribution to the placing of dance and its literaturewithin contemporary cultural debate.’Dr Alexander Carter, Middlesex University‘A complex summary of the numerous biases and windows throughwhich we have viewed and continue to view male dancers . . . Burt’swork argues persuasively that theatrical dance is a vital and threateningsite for defining masculinity in relation to the culture at large.’David J. Popalisky, Dance Research JournalTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. THE TROUBLE WITH THE MALE DANCER...; CHAPTER TWO. PERFORMING MASCULINITIES; CHAPTER THREE. NIJINSKY; CHAPTER FOUR. AMERICAN MEN; CHAPTER FIVE. DANCING IN THE CITY; CHAPTER SIX. MASCULINITY AND LIBERATION; CHAPTER SEVEN. IDENTITY POLITICS; CHAPTER EIGHT. DANCING NEW RELATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Taylor & Francis Performing Cultures of Equality
Book SynopsisThis book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The performative manifestations discussed include theatre, installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies, sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social movements, visual studies, critiTable of Contents1 Performing Cultures of Equality: Embodiments, Visualities, Inscriptions -Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Carla Rodríguez-González, and Suzanne Clisby PART I Embodying (In)Equalities 2 Honey Pot Performance’s Black Feminist Praxis: Embodiments of Collaboration and Collectivity -Meida Teresa McNeal 3 The Performance of Black Young Masculinity in Bola Agbaje’s and Mojisola Adebayo’s Council-Estate Plays -Paola Prieto López 4 Art’s Political Potential and the Violence That the Art Does. On the Performative Operations of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Guests (2016) -Dorota Golańska and Aleksandra M. Różalska Part II Visualizing (In)Equalities 5 Tinted Visions: Performing Equalities Through Festive Decorations in LGBT-Themed Events in Hull (UK City of Culture 2017) -Barbara Grabher 6 Social Media Reverberations of Feminist Assemblies: Reflections After Non una di meno’s Verona transfemminista Rally -Tomasso Trillò 7 Gender-Based Violence and the Performance of Masculinity: A Comparative Analysis of the Documentary Films Ma l’amore c’entra? and Serás hombre -Orianna Calderón Sandoval and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa PART III Inscribing (In)Equalities 8 Strangers, Persisters, and Killjoys: Confronting Gender Inequality through Performance Poetry -Esther Álvarez López 9 Imperialism’s Performative Technologies: Race, Gender, and Wearable Devices in Aliette De Bodard’s ‘Immersion’ -Eleanor Drage 10 Figures of a Gender Now upon Us: The Transfeminine in Contemporary Queer Fiction from the Philippines -Jaya Jacobo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Embodied Nostalgia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd InBetween Worlds
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Taylor & Francis InBetween Worlds
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dramaturgy to Make Visible
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Piscatorbuhne Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Choreographing Dirt
Book SynopsisThis book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance.Trade Review"In Choregraphing Dirt, Angenette Spalink excavates and activates our intimate and interwoven dance with the material stuff of the earth – call it dirt, soil, detritus, mud, peat, humus, ash – it is the delicate and constant dance partner of our intractably embodied lives. In light of current myriad crises, Choregraphing Dirt analyzes how performance – dance, theatre and cultural enactment – can trace the impacts of extraction and trade, reveal displacement and destruction of human and more-than-human lives, unearth and lay bare racist and genocidal histories long buried in soil, or celebrate deeply rooted cultural reciprocities with the land around us. Choreographing Dirt is a lucid and compelling analysis of the essential work of the performing arts in the era of climate change: to illuminate and complicate human kinship with the more-than-human world. Spalink has made an elegant and incisive contribution to the intersectional fields of ecodramaturgy, performance studies, dance studies and environmental humanities."Theresa J. May, author of Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology, Environment and American Theatre"Spalink does the urgent work of bringing ecocriticism to dance studies, taking seriously how dirt is choreographed on the stage, as well as how dirt in turn choreographs the movement of others in and across biological, geographical, and cultural spaces. Her analyses of theater and dance pieces in which dirt takes center stage model how the movements of dirt itself offer new insights to intractable ecological problems."Rosemary Candelario, University of Texas at Austin"By attending to the ways in which the 'choreography of matter matters,' Choreographing Dirt represents a welcome and much-needed expansion of ecocriticism and ecodramaturgy into the fields of movement and dance. Focusing on well-chosen case studies, Spalink’s analysis astutely reveals how performance can illuminate connections between the displacement of resources and environmental injustices."Dr. Wendy Arons, Professor of Drama and Director of the Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon UniversityTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Biogeocultography1. Performative Taphonomy: Excavating and Exhuming the Past in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play2. Staging Extraction: Peat’s Vitality in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring3. A Dirty Pas De Deux: Dirt, Skin, and “Trans-corporeality” in Eveoke Dance Theatre’s Las Mariposas4. Mycelium in Motion: Choreographing Care in Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s Messengers DivinosConclusion: Moving with the TroubleIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kingship Madness and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kingship Madness and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Theatre of Les Waters
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