Performance art Books
Rutgers University Press Dont Act Just Dance The Metapolitics of Cold War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a tour de force, a grand jeté, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture." -- Virginia Jackson * University of California-Irvine *"Don’t Act, Just Dance is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's brilliant meta-political analyses of works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick, and Marianne Moore. I cannot recommend this book too highly." -- Harilaos Stecopoulos * author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 *"An important manifesto for dance as a subject of serious scholarly attention in academic disciplines beyond dance history and dance studies … the book's final case studies are brilliant comparative meditations on the complex, multilayered relationship between Cold War art and politics." * Dance Chronicle *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I Rethinking Cold War Culture1 Combat Cultural2 History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)3 Theory: Adorno and Rancière (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)4 Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”Part II Rereading Cold War Culture5 Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”6 Spartacus7 From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of Nixon in ChinaNotesBibliographyIndex
£105.40
John Wiley & Sons Sovereign Acts Performing Race Space and
Book SynopsisSovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Trade Review"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty." -- Camilla Stevens * author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama *"Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£37.03
John Wiley & Sons Sovereign Acts Performing Race Space and
Book SynopsisSovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Trade Review"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty." -- Camilla Stevens * author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama *"Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£117.80
Rutgers University Press Black Movements Performance and Cultural Politics
Book SynopsisAnalyses how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies.Trade Review"Colbert engages with cultural narratives that cross disciplinary boundaries; Black Movements will influence the field because it offers a unique way to think about processes and products of black artistic thought." -- Anita Gonzalez * University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and co-author of Black Performance Theory *"With rigor and creativity, Soyica Diggs Colbert weaves together debates in performance studies, black studies, and American studies. Black Movements offers a new way to think about race, time, history, and performance in the contemporary moment and will have a lasting influence." -- Shane Vogel * author of The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance *"It is a significant book, one that should be read alongside the scholarship of Saidiya Hartman, Daphne Brooks, Amber Jamilla Musser and other black feminist thinkers. Like Beyoncé reflecting back on Josephine Baker, Black Movements’s looks to the legacies of black performance in order to imagine and build black futures." * Journal of American Drama and Theatre *"Colbert’s 2017 book is especially exigent because it challenges the fixity of black death in a contemporary moment where black life is continuously expected to end abruptly. Whether this anticipation comes from video circulations of encounters with police or the Sate’s neglect of a predominantly black city’s contaminated water system, Colbert challenges this anticipated permanence to black death in Black Movements via analyses of literature, popular culture, and history. In doing so, she presents freedom as a multimodal phenomenon – through performance, film, literature, music, and prophecy." * Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Webs of Affiliation1 Flying Africans in Spaceships2 Entrapping and Ensnaring Entanglements3 Prophesying in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series4 MarchingEpilogue: “Why do you look for the living among the dead?”: Locating the Future of Black Studies NotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
Taylor & Francis Anna Halprin
Book SynopsisAnna Halprin traces the life's work of this radical dance-maker, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Now revised and reissued, this book: sketches the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, exploring Halprin's connections with the avant-garde theatre, music, visual art and architecture of the 1950s and 60s offers a detailed analysis of Halprinâs work from this period provides an important historical guide to a time when dance was first explored beyond the confines of the theatre and considered as a healing art for individuals and communities. As a first step towards critical understanding, and an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for todayâs student.Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgements1 LIFE AND WORK2 THEORY AND PRACTICE3 THE MOUNTAIN PERFORMANCES, CIRCLE THE EARTH AND THE PLANETARY DANCE4 PRACTICAL EXPLORATIONSBibliographyContactsIndex
£35.14
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Pina Bausch
Book SynopsisThis newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bauschâs work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work offers new and exciting insight into the theatrical approach of a singular performance practitioner.This is an essential introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant choreographers/directors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for todayâs student.Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsAn Artistic and Contextual HistoryWhat Is SaidKontakthof in ContextPractical ExercisesBibliographyIndex
£35.14
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
£35.14
Duke University Press Correspondence Course
Book SynopsisAn epistolary history of the international avant-garde of happenings, Fluxus, and performance and conceptual art emerges from decades of correspondence between Carolee Schneemann and other artists and intellectuals.Trade Review“Correspondence Course is a book at once combative and communal, aesthetic and feminist. Schneeman chronicles a life dedicated to uncompromised artistic exploration of her own assumptions, as well as those of others, all in the name of conceptual progress.” - Trinie Dalton, Bookforum“One realizes in reading this hefty collection just how stealthily [Stiles] has made her way through the culture of her times, how she has maintained a brilliant dwelling for her creative process and psychic space, and steered a course based entirely on her own unique direction. Correspondence Course offers an ingenious view into a cultural life that does not fit neatly into the history books, if it’s there at all.” - Stephen Motika, Bomb“[A]n amazing look into the heart, soul, and psyche of a trend setting artist.” - Gypsey Elaine Teague, ARLIS/NA Reviews“A thick book of exuberant and extensive correspondence is a wonderful rarity in this era of tweets, emoticons, and Facebook updates. . . . [T]his selection provides an engaging historical document of a major segment of the American avant-garde in the last half of the 20th century. . . . Throughout her correspondence, Schneemann has the remarkable quality of being both unfailingly giving and fiercely honest.” - Kim Levin, ARTNews“Correspondence Course is many things: it is a book that encompasses an impressive amount of historical data that is of immense use to anyresearcher of late 20th-century art. It is also an archive of an extraordinary life during a time of tremendous changes in society and technology. Finally, it is a gripping story, at times difficult to put down—not your typical art historicalbook—and a tremendous achievement on the part of the editor, the artist and the publisher.” - Kathy Battista, Art Monthly“An accidental record of the way friends, enemies, the art world and ideas all crowd into an artist’s work can be found in Correspondence Course. . . . What a fascinating cacophony it is. . . . It is unusual to be given access to this kind of archive during the central figure’s lifetime. . . .” - Barry Schwabsky, The Nation“Kristine Stiles’s subtitle, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle, suggests that like the correspondence of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, these letters will afford a privileged insight into the cultural milieu in which they were written. The first section in the book, focused on 1956–1968, may have the most historical éclat, but Schneemann’s letters are great throughout the forty-three years the book covers, and Stiles performed a careful and attentive scholarly treatment of them. This book is another brick in the edifice of modern art.”—Thomas McEvilley, author of The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism“Not only a revelatory stroll in Carolee Schneemann’s teeming archive, Correspondence Course demonstrates that letters, no less than canvases or installations, are works of art. An exquisitely dense meditation on address, Schneemann’s revelatory letters and Kristine Stiles’s deft critical framing perform a radical reconception of art history itself. At once deeply personal and profoundly philosophical, Correspondence Course illuminates and complicates pretty much every notion I have had about the past fifty years of avant-garde art. A brilliant, breathtaking, stunning book.”—Peggy Phelan, Stanford University“Correspondence Course is a book at once combative and communal, aesthetic and feminist. Schneeman chronicles a life dedicated to uncompromised artistic exploration of her own assumptions, as well as those of others, all in the name of conceptual progress.” -- Trinie Dalton * Bookforum *“Correspondence Course is many things: it is a book that encompasses an impressive amount of historical data that is of immense use to any researcher of late 20th-century art. It is also an archive of an extraordinary life during a time of tremendous changes in society and technology. Finally, it is a gripping story, at times difficult to put down—not your typical art historical book—and a tremendous achievement on the part of the editor, the artist and the publisher.” -- Kathy Battista * Art Monthly *“[A]n amazing look into the heart, soul, and psyche of a trend setting artist.” -- Gypsey Elaine Teague * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“A thick book of exuberant and extensive correspondence is a wonderful rarity in this era of tweets, emoticons, and Facebook updates. . . . [T]his selection provides an engaging historical document of a major segment of the American avant-garde in the last half of the 20th century. . . . Throughout her correspondence, Schneemann has the remarkable quality of being both unfailingly giving and fiercely honest.” -- Kim Levin * ARTNews *“An accidental record of the way friends, enemies, the art world and ideas all crowd into an artist’s work can be found in Correspondence Course. . . . What a fascinating cacophony it is. . . . It is unusual to be given access to this kind of archive during the central figure’s lifetime. . . .” -- Barry Schwabsky * The Nation *“One realizes in reading this hefty collection just how stealthily [Stiles] has made her way through the culture of her times, how she has maintained a brilliant dwelling for her creative process and psychic space, and steered a course based entirely on her own unique direction. Correspondence Course offers an ingenious view into a cultural life that does not fit neatly into the history books, if it’s there at all.” -- Stephen Motika * Bomb *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi Introduction xxv The Letters 1956–1968 3 1969–1975 142 1976–1986 269 1987–1999 382 Index 491
£31.50
Duke University Press Performance
Book SynopsisIn this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed.Trade Review"Performance offers scenarios... for active pedagogy, inviting students and others to explore and perhaps undo the links between images and writing, texts and performances, so as to conduct their own performatic appropriations." -- Loren Kruger * Critical Inquiry *"Taylor's fascinating, multicultural analysis of performance explores not only what performance is but also what it does—what it allows one to see, to experience, and to theorize—and 'its complex relation to systems of power.' . . . Recommended." -- M. S. LoMonaco * Choice *"The book is performative and multivocal, combining images of performances in the Americas, Taylor’s narrative essays, and important excerpts from key texts on performance by academics, activists, and artists....The result is a work that gives ample space to artists/artivists as the creators of tactics rather than to performance studies scholars who analyze nonperformance phenomena as performance." -- Patricia Ybarra * TDR: The Drama Review *"Introduction, reflection, and provocation coalesce most successfully in Taylor’s passionate insistence on the necessity of performance and its academic study. Performance, Taylor argues, has real effects, but the nature of those effects is not pre-determined. The wielder determines the worth of the weapon. These passages alone would suffice to make the book a trusted companion of students and senior scholars alike." -- David Calder * New Theatre Quarterly *"This book is a valuable introduction to performance art and performance studies. It is deftly argued and elegantly composed. Taylor concludes by saying that performance is ‘world-making’ and that we need to understand it (208). This book helps us to do just that." -- Adrian Curtin * Studies in Theatre and Performance *“Incredibly important. Performance is a proffer of a new way of looking and thinking about performance.” -- Robert Summers * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Framing [Performance] 2. Performance Histories 3. Spect-Actors 4. The New Uses of Performance 5. Performative and Performativity 6. Knowing through Performance: Scenarios and Simulation 7. Artivists (Artist-Activists), or What's to Be Done? 8. The Future(s) of Performance 9. Performance Studies Notes
£72.25
Duke University Press Collective Situations
Book SynopsisThis volume's essays, interviews, and artist statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—present a range of socially engaged art practices in Latin America between 1995 and 2010 that rethink the boundaries between art and activism.Trade Review“Enormously compelling and useful. Collective Situations reveals the inadequacy of art criticism and art history as they are now conceived and will compel us to ask what role writers and scholars can play in assuring that fleeting images, oral accounts, and ephemeral acts be written into history.” -- Harper Montgomery * CAA Reviews *"Each section is laden with artists, activists, and collectives that cannot live—or live well—in the constraints not only of settler colonial continuity, but also of Western art history. Instead, they catalyze, experiment, and pre-figure collectivity in the interstices of the situated—as a mode of critique and aesthetic method—to create lives worth sharing." -- Sarah Richter * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Grant Kester and Bill Kelley Jr. 1 Part I. (Un)Civil Disobedience 19 1. Lava la bandera: The Colectivo Sociedad Civil and the Cultural Overthrow of the Fujimori-Montesinos Dictatorship / Gustavo Buntinx 21 2. Interview with Caleb Duarte of EDELO Residencia / Raquel de Anda 43 3. Grupo Etcétera: Project Description / Rodrigo Martí 58 An Interview with Etcétera / Etcétera 62 4. Artistas en Resistencia: Project Description / Kency Cornejo 79 An Interview with Artistas en Resistencia / Kency Cornejo 83 5. A Long Way: Argentine Artistic Activism of the Last Decades / Ana Longoni 98 Part II. Urbanism 113 6. Galatea/bulbo Collective: Project Description / Mariola V. Alvarez 117 "Participación" (2008) and Tijueneados Anóminos (2008-2009) / Bulbo 120 7. Interview with Tranvía Cero / María Fernanda Cartagena 130 8. Art Collectives and the Prestes Maia Occupation in São Paulo / Gavin Adams 149 9. Frente 3 de FevereiroProject Description / Rodrigo Martí 165 The Becoming World of Brazil / Fremte 3 de Fevereiro 169 10. Interview with Mauricio Brandão of BijaRi, October 9, 2011 / Mariola V. Alvarez 186 Part III. Memory 199 11. Skins of Memory: Art, Civic Pedagogy, and Social Reconstruction / Pilar Riaño Alcalá and Suzanne Lacy 203 12. Some Frameworking Concepts for Art and Social Practices in Colombia / David Gutiérrez Castañeda 220 13. Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Project Description / Marina Reyes Franco 241 An Interview with Chemi Rosado-Seijo / Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Marina Reyes Franco, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 245 Part IV. Indigeneity 255 14. Ala Plastica: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido 259 Otros-Nosotros: An Interview with Ala Plastica / Grant Kester 261 15. Interviwe with Pablo Sanaguano / Maria Fernanda Cartagena 279 16. The Empowerment Process of Community Communication in Ecuador / Alberto Muenala 297 Part V. Migrations 305 17. Of Co-Investigations and Aesthetic Sustenance: A Conversation / Colectivo Situaciones and Electronic Disturbance Theater / B.A.N.G. Lab 309 18. How Three Artists Led the Queens Museum into Corona and Beyond / Prerana Reddy 321 Part VI. Institutional Critique 339 19. Lurawi, Doing: An Anarchist Experience—Ch'ixi / LXS Colectiverxs 343 20. Con la Salud si se Juega: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido 367 The Tournament: Nodes of a Network Made of Undisciplined Knowledge / Juan Carlos Rodríguez 369 21. La Lleca Colectiva: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego 388 Exodus to La Lleca: Exiting from "Art" and "Politics" in Mexico / La Lleca 391 22. La Línea: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego 403 The Morras Project / Interdisciplinario la Línea/La Línea Interdisciplinary Group: Abril Castro, Esmeralda Ceballos, Kara Lynch, Lorena Mancilla, and Sayak Valencia-Miriam García 406 Contributors 413 Index 423
£94.05
Duke University Press Collective Situations
Book SynopsisThis volume's essays, interviews, and artist statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—present a range of socially engaged art practices in Latin America between 1995 and 2010 that rethink the boundaries between art and activism.Trade Review“Enormously compelling and useful. Collective Situations reveals the inadequacy of art criticism and art history as they are now conceived and will compel us to ask what role writers and scholars can play in assuring that fleeting images, oral accounts, and ephemeral acts be written into history.” -- Harper Montgomery * CAA Reviews *"Each section is laden with artists, activists, and collectives that cannot live—or live well—in the constraints not only of settler colonial continuity, but also of Western art history. Instead, they catalyze, experiment, and pre-figure collectivity in the interstices of the situated—as a mode of critique and aesthetic method—to create lives worth sharing." -- Sarah Richter * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Grant Kester and Bill Kelley Jr. 1 Part I. (Un)Civil Disobedience 19 1. Lava la bandera: The Colectivo Sociedad Civil and the Cultural Overthrow of the Fujimori-Montesinos Dictatorship / Gustavo Buntinx 21 2. Interview with Caleb Duarte of EDELO Residencia / Raquel de Anda 43 3. Grupo Etcétera: Project Description / Rodrigo Martí 58 An Interview with Etcétera / Etcétera 62 4. Artistas en Resistencia: Project Description / Kency Cornejo 79 An Interview with Artistas en Resistencia / Kency Cornejo 83 5. A Long Way: Argentine Artistic Activism of the Last Decades / Ana Longoni 98 Part II. Urbanism 113 6. Galatea/bulbo Collective: Project Description / Mariola V. Alvarez 117 "Participación" (2008) and Tijueneados Anóminos (2008-2009) / Bulbo 120 7. Interview with Tranvía Cero / María Fernanda Cartagena 130 8. Art Collectives and the Prestes Maia Occupation in São Paulo / Gavin Adams 149 9. Frente 3 de FevereiroProject Description / Rodrigo Martí 165 The Becoming World of Brazil / Fremte 3 de Fevereiro 169 10. Interview with Mauricio Brandão of BijaRi, October 9, 2011 / Mariola V. Alvarez 186 Part III. Memory 199 11. Skins of Memory: Art, Civic Pedagogy, and Social Reconstruction / Pilar Riaño Alcalá and Suzanne Lacy 203 12. Some Frameworking Concepts for Art and Social Practices in Colombia / David Gutiérrez Castañeda 220 13. Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Project Description / Marina Reyes Franco 241 An Interview with Chemi Rosado-Seijo / Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Marina Reyes Franco, and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz 245 Part IV. Indigeneity 255 14. Ala Plastica: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido 259 Otros-Nosotros: An Interview with Ala Plastica / Grant Kester 261 15. Interviwe with Pablo Sanaguano / Maria Fernanda Cartagena 279 16. The Empowerment Process of Community Communication in Ecuador / Alberto Muenala 297 Part V. Migrations 305 17. Of Co-Investigations and Aesthetic Sustenance: A Conversation / Colectivo Situaciones and Electronic Disturbance Theater / B.A.N.G. Lab 309 18. How Three Artists Led the Queens Museum into Corona and Beyond / Prerana Reddy 321 Part VI. Institutional Critique 339 19. Lurawi, Doing: An Anarchist Experience—Ch'ixi / LXS Colectiverxs 343 20. Con la Salud si se Juega: Project Description / Fabian Cerejido 367 The Tournament: Nodes of a Network Made of Undisciplined Knowledge / Juan Carlos Rodríguez 369 21. La Lleca Colectiva: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego 388 Exodus to La Lleca: Exiting from "Art" and "Politics" in Mexico / La Lleca 391 22. La Línea: Project Description / Elize Mazadiego 403 The Morras Project / Interdisciplinario la Línea/La Línea Interdisciplinary Group: Abril Castro, Esmeralda Ceballos, Kara Lynch, Lorena Mancilla, and Sayak Valencia-Miriam García 406 Contributors 413 Index 423
£23.74
Rizzoli International Publications Studio 54 The Real Story by Ian Schrager
Book SynopsisIn the first official book on the legendary club Studio 54, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories from the greatest party of all time.Trade Review"Ian Schrager, the former co-owner of Studio 54, collects photographs and stories from the nightclub's heyday in the late 1970s and '80s in this glitzy, celebrity-filled coffee-table book that will fill any giftee with awe and nostalgia."—The New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide"... spectacular volume containing a treasure trove of the era’s glam."—Society Diaries"On the timeline of New York nightlife, the heyday of Studio 54 barely registers as a blip. Just three years separate the club’s celeb-mobbed 1977 opening and the raucous “going-away party” that proprietors Ian Schrager and the late Steve Rubell hosted before being carted off to jail for tax evasion. But in the four decades since that famous coke-snorting crescent moon first rose over the dance floor, no other nightclub has made quite as indelible an impression on the city’s social scene. From 10 p.m. until sunrise, A-list movie stars mingled with drag queens on roller skates, Park Avenue swans had (pre-AIDS-crisis) bathroom sex with downtown artists, and some of the 20th-century’s greatest literary lights watched it all from the infamous banquettes. Now, thanks to a new book, those who never made it past the velvet ropes—or are too young to have even tried—have a window into that wild-and-crazy magic. Studio 54 (Rizzoli), edited by Schrager, now impresario of a slew of hotels including the new Public Hotel, is equal parts oral history, personal scrapbook, and photo album, bringing together the reminiscences of regulars with star-studded snapshots and reams of gossip columns. Schrager, it seems, saved everything."—W Magazine.com"Ian Schrager looks back at the legendary club that he and Steve Rubell started in 1977, with vintage photos of the stars and personalities who walked through its doors."—WSJ. Magazine"Schrager is releasing Studio 54, featuring hundreds of photos from the club's heyday, many of them from his personal albums: Michael Jackson and David Bowie, presidential families and news anchors, the SNL crew, Diana Ross, Tennessee Williams, Halston, Roy Cohn, Richard Pryor, Vladimir Horowitz—a fairly broad representation of American achievement, and not a handler or cell-phone camera in sight. "—Esquire"To say that Studio 54 was the place to be, may in fact be the understatement of the last four decades. To celebrate the nightclub’s 40th anniversary this year, co-founder Ian Schrager looks back to the Studio’s history with a new coffee table book, out now, and an upcoming documentary to be released at the end of the year."—Refinery29.com"Legendary luxury hotelier Ian Schraeger, co-owner of Studio 54, has put together the ultimate illustrated memoir in the long-awaited magnum opus Studio 54 (Rizzoli New York). The book is the perfect mélange of photographs and press clips, memories of New York when nightlife was at its peak. But it’s more than a who’s who of the jet set—it is the ultimate guide to vintage style, from Valentino to Steven Tyler of Aerosmith."—Crave Online"In Ian Schrager’s new book, Studio 54, the club owner pulls back the velvet rope to capture the power, pleasure, and people at the greatest nightclub of all time."—Vanity Fair"The iconic disco club that defined an era comes alive again in this sizable memory-capsule by and on the legendary co-founder, Ian Schrager through spectacular photographs (some never before seen) featuring the likes of Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Diana Ross and Andy Warhol. The More than just nostalgia, this is unfettered access past the velvet rope and into a unique world where celebrities and regulars partied together, epitomizing decadence and most importantly, having fun."—IndulgeMagazine.com
£48.75
City Lights Books DocUndoc DocumentadoUndocumented Ars Shamnica
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be documented or undocumented? How do these terms work across borders and boundaries, languages and nations? These are the questions fueling the experimental artwork-in-a-box, Documentado/Undocumented, a book art piece that explores the intersection of printmaking, typography, performance, video, sound art, and installation. In its traveling exhibition, a finely crafted aluminum traveling case is on display, opening into a tri-partite mirrored vanity containing a playful kit of objects, inviting the participant into an intimate space of engagement and transformation. Illuminated buttons trigger layers of audio, and a set of instructions invites the viewer to Reimagine yourself / tell a new story / collaborate with others. Also on display is an exquisite, vividly illustrated codex created by book artist Felicia Rice, with texts drawing upon Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña''s experiences and observations of the politic
£21.24
City Lights Books COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope
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£12.34
University of Regina Press Performing Turtle Island
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£20.90
Aperture Illuminating Video Essential Guide to Video Art
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Independent Curators Inc.,U.S. EN MAS
Book SynopsisEN MAS'' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic practice. A hybrid exhibition catalogue and academic reader with a lively carnivalesque feel, it presents nine newly commissioned artist projects by John Beadle, Charles Campbell, Christophe Chassol, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Marlon Griffith, Hew Locke, Ebony G. Patterson, Lorraine O''Grady and Cauleen Smith. The book also includes a timeline of diasporic pan-Caribbean carnivals, tracing the influence of Caribbean carnivals and festivals on the theater, dance, and Broadway stages in New York and London, in contemporary art galleries and biennials from São Paulo to Havana to Gwangju, at the Olympics as well as in protest and other movements.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Absolute Turkey Absolute Classics
Book SynopsisGeorges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993.Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue - Sunday TimesTrade Review"Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue" - Sunday Times
£14.76
Currency House Inc Platform Papers 11 A Regional State of Mind
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Contra Mundum Press Plays with Films
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Errant Bodies Dirty Ear Report 2
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Primary Information Fia Backstrom Coop
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Primary Information Title Tk An Anthology
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Primary Information Modern Love
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Print Matters Productions, Inc BAM Next Wave Festival
Book SynopsisBrooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, founded in 1983 by impresario Harvey Lichtenstein, gathered performances in which genres mixed and traditions were upended. Events held in downtown lofts were given larger venues at BAM. Choreographers, directors, artists and musicians now had access to bigger audiences. The first festivals included New York artists Trisha Brown, Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucinda Childs and Robert Wilson. International companies were folded into the Next Wave, introducing New York viewers to Pina Bausch, Robert Lepage, Sankai Juku and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. During intermissions, art-world luminaries mixed with dance and theater makers. In 1999, Joseph V. Melillo took over the artistic reins of the festival. By 2012, the Fishman Space openeda venue for smaller-scale performancesjoining the Howard Gilman Opera House and the BAM Harvey Theater. This book surveys the festival's performances by genre, with photo
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Nonesmanneslond Winterdanse
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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.
£20.58
Cambridge University Press Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. It frames the Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performances today.
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Cambridge University Press Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres
Book SynopsisThis Element discusses how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. It shows how grief must seep into the public sphere to fight to save health and social care services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre.
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Cambridge University Press Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy
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Taylor & Francis Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family
Book SynopsisThis is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting Method and 1997 recipient of the Living Legend Award from the National Black Theatre Festival, whose inclusive contributions to acting and actor training have largely remained on the fringes of scholarship and practice.Trade Review"In Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy Cizmar excavates the practices of Black Arts Movement activist and acting teacher Ernie McClintock’s ground breaking acting techniques which de-centered Stanislavski based approaches to actor training to combine African and African American experiential aesthetics with voice work centered in jazz music, yoga, karate, and African movement. Cizmar deftly explores McClintock’s "common sense" or "jazz acting" methods to illuminate his powerful social justice agenda used in many regional black theatres across the country during the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Cizmar’s beautiful book makes McClintock’s archive feel urgent and resonant in the 21st century as Black theater artists around the world ask for accountability and legibility within the mainstream theater landscape. Cizmar’s descriptive prose and archival research are coupled in a fascinating account of 20th century Black acting methods that challenged the American actor training repertoire. Cizmar’s thoughtful analysis leaves the reader asking how McClintock’s work could be erased from the history of American actor training. The book is a must read for any artist, scholar, or theater enthusiast interested in the early practices of anti-racist theater and the struggles for equity and representation of Black artists in the American theater."Nicole Hodges Persley, Associate Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies, University of Kansas"Ernie McClintock may not be well-known to the masses of people, but he was both a larger-than-life pioneer and a living legend of the American and African American theater scene. With Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family, Dr. Elizabeth Cizmar has given us an awe-inspiring exploration not only of his life and work, but of the community Mr. McClintock built, bricks in bare hands, across generations, which would include a young Tupac Shakur. This hugely engaging book is a necessary addition to our understanding not just of theater and the arts, but of America itself during the course of Ernie McClintock’s life."Kevin Powell, author of Grocery Shopping with My Mother: PoemsTable of Contents1. Afrocentric Roots in Chicago’s Blackbelt (1937-1964) 2. Shaking Up Harlem (1965-1972) 3. Canonizing the Contemporary Black Classics (1973-1981) 4. Quaring the Black Theatre Movement (1981-1986) 5. Rebel in Richmond (1987-1993) 6. The Persistence of a Living Legend (1994-1997) 7. To See Another Day (1998-2003)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Object Performance in the Black Atlantic
Book SynopsisGiven that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry? This study approaches the question by looking at the whole performance complex surrounding African performing objects and examines the material culture of object performance.Object Performance in the Black Atlantic argues that since human beings can attribute private, personal meanings to objects obtained for personal use such as dolls, vessels, and quilts, the lines of material culture continuity between African and African American object performance run through objects that performed in ritual rather than theatrical capacity. Split into three parts, this book starts by outlining the spaces where the African American object performance complex persisted through the period of slavery. Part Two traces how African Americans began to reclaiTable of ContentsPart 1: The African American Object Performance Complex 1. Introduction to the African American Object Performance Complex 2. Minkisi: Ritual Objects as Lines of Resistance 3. Mechanical Negroes 4. African American Story Cycles 5. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Object Performance in African American Dance 6. Music is Our Mother Tongue: Object Performance in African American Music Part 2: African American Object Performance Overcoming Jim Crow 7. From Minstrelsy to Vaudeville: John W. Cooper Crafts an Entrée 8. Shadows Uplifted: African American Object Performance under Jim Crow 9. Creating Communities 10. Throwing Voice: African American Ventriloquists 11. In the Image of God: Puppet Ministry and Object Performance in the Black Church 12. Political Activism and African American Object Performance Part 3: Object Performance in African American Dramatic Presentations 13. African American Puppet Modernism: Alice Swann and the Wonderland Puppet Theatre 14. Staging Stories: African American Folktales and Puppet Theater 15. Object Performance in African American Visual Art 16. African Americans and Object Performance in American Theater 17. African American Puppet Film 18. African American Puppetry in Social Media 19. The Substance of Things Hoped for: Contemporary African American Puppet Theater
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance Art
Book SynopsisPerformance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance.The book begins by introducing the terminology related to performance art and its early history. The basic elements of performance, including the body, objects, space, the public, and the public sphere are approached through thematic and conceptual correlations such as objects as autobiography, body as an expression of gendered identity, performance and the everyday, the augmented body, the archive of performance, and public space as space for intervention. Case studies analysed in each chapter are accompanied by reflective questions and discussion topics. The book proposes a wide range of exercises and comprehensive practice prompts that aim to enhance performance skills, promote experimentation, and encourage an experiential understanding of the theory, history, and concepts relating to performance art.Performance Art: Education and Practice is addressed to students of Fine Arts and Performance Studies from beginner to intermediate level, performance and visual artists who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and creative range, and artist-teachers who are interested in developing their own curriculum and workshop content.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Introduction to performance 2. Materials in performance: objects 3. Body, gender, identity 4. Performing the self 5. The augmented body 6. Body and space 7. Performance and the everyday 8. Performing in public space 9. Performing radical interventions 10. Nature, bodies, environment 11. Beyond the live event
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clowns
Book SynopsisClowns: In Conversation is a groundbreaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. These artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, as they explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown's trademark. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded, bringing in Lila Monti, Cristina Marti, Leo Bassi, Danise Payne, Bernice Collins, Ketch,Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Clowns 1. Leo Bassi 2. René Bazinet 3. Shannan Calcutt 4. Angela de Castro 5. Bernice Collins 6. Nina Conti 7. Dimitri 8. Robert Dunn 9. Jango Edwards 10. Avner Eisenberg 11. Aziz Gual 12. Hélène Gustin and Tanja Simma 13. Geoff Hoyle 14. Gardi Hutter 15. Bill Irwin and David Shiner 16. Ketch 17. David Larible 18. Cristina Marti 19. Michelle Matlock 20. Lila Monti 21. Bello Nock 22. Danise Payne 23. Larry and Lorenzo Pisoni 24. Slava Polunin 25. Oleg Popov 26. Nola Rae 27. Peter Shub 28. Misha Usov Reflections 29. Ezra and David in Conversation with Phil Burgers; Appendix of Terms
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Taylor & Francis Applied Theatre and the Permacrisis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the
Book SynopsisThis dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression.Featuring a diverse array of voices (many of them as yet unheard in the academic world), the book hosts dialogues on the following questions, among others: Why and how did Theatre of the Oppressed develop? What are the differences between the 1970s (when Theatre of the Oppressed began) and today? How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by local and global shifts of the last 40-plus years? Why has Theatre of the Oppressed spread or multiplied across so many geographic, naTable of ContentsEditor and Contributor Biographies Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations --- Introduction: Theatre of the Oppressed and its Time(s) PART I: ROOTS Genealogies Critical Frames Oppression From Roots to Branches PART II: GROUND SHIFTS Changing Landscapes in Late Capitalism Critical Reflections on the Early Multiplication of Theatre of the Oppressed PART III: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE Spaces Practices in Context EPILOGUE APPENDIX INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage
Book SynopsisDance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and Americaâs indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be oTable of Contents1. 1492–1776: The Earliest Beginnings 2. 1776–1866: John Durang and the Dawn of American Theatrical Dance 3. 1866–1914: Building a Musical Theatre Dance Vocabulary 4. 1914–1929: The Dance Director: Front and Center 5. 1929–1943: Depression Ferments New Visions: Ballet and Modern Dance 6. 1943–1957: Integration: Dance Narrates 7. 1957–1968: Triple Threats Grow as Director-Choreographers Rise 8. 1968–1975: The Concept Musical Makes Room for Dance 9. 1975–1996: The Age of the Director-Choreographer Wanes 10. 1996–2020: Choreography and the Musical Break Open
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Juan Mayorga
Book SynopsisJuan Mayorga: Six Plays is the first collection of Spanish dramatist Juan Mayorga's plays in English, offering a compelling insight into the extraordinary range and quality of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most distinctive voices.The six plays are presented in translations that are both readable and eminently performable. Each is accompanied by a translator's note that discusses the strategies and decisions used in making the play performable in English as well as the play's key themes. The book also features an introduction to Mayorga's life and work, emphasising his commitment to plays whose range of forms and innovative theatre-making practice re-imagines the nature of theatre and performance each time anew. The plays themselves are brilliant treatises on our times, inspiring conversation about and critical examination of our troubled world.These scripts will be of interest to professional practitioners but are no less suited to both university and am
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure.This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversati
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Does Disability Performance Travel
Book SynopsisThis edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world.Disability arts festivals are growing in different parts of the world; theatre and dance companies with disabled artists are increasingly touring and collaborating with international partners. At the same time, theatre spaces are often not accessible, and the necessity of mobility excludes some disabled artists from being part of an international disability arts community. How does disability performance travel, who does not travel and why? What is the role of funding and producing structures, disability arts festivals, and networks around the world? How do the logics of international (co-)producing govern the way in which disability art is represented internationally? Who is excluded from being part of a touring theatre or dance company, and how can festivals, conferences, and other agents of a growing disability culture create other forms of participation, whicTable of ContentsContributor BiographiesNeil Marcus: Storm Reading TourINTRODUCED BY PETRA KUPPERS AND RAQUEL ESCOBARIntroduction: How Does Disability Performance Travel?CHRISTIANE CZYMOCH, KATE MAGUIRE-ROSIER, AND YVONNE SCHMIDTPART 1The Politics of Touring and Travelling1 Putting Myself into People’s Spaces: A Performer’s Journey Through World StagesNADIA ADAME2 The Journey of Maui and Different Light: Fellow Travelling and Learning-Disabled TheatreTONY McCAFFREY3 Travel PoeticsFELIPE HENRIQUE MONTEIRO OLIVEIRATRANSLATED BY MARIA CAROLINA MONTEIRO OLIVEIRA4 How Disability Performance Travels in Australia: The Reality Under the RhetoricBREE HADLEY WITH EDDIE PATERSON, MADELEINE LITTLE, AND KATH DUNCANPART 2International Flows and Cultural Settings5 The Travels of The ApartmentALEKSANDRA DUNAEVATRANSLATED BY YULIA SAVIKOVSKAYA6 Teatro Patologico Abroad: A Medea for International AudiencesJOSEPH PAUL HILL7 How Disability Performances Travel within Taiwan: Sustaining Confrontations and Letting Differences Coexist in I am a Normal Person No.1 and No.2 I-LIEN HOPART 3Embodying Spaces, Mobilizing Environments8 Unsettling Sitting Modes of Living: The Disability of Sitting as Creative Environmental MobilityCIANE FERNANDESENGLISH REVISION BY MELINA SCIALOM9 Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability PerformanceMEGAN JOHNSON10 Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital MobilityJESSICA WATKIN11 The Animacy of Ekphrasis: Documenting Performance as Acts of Unfurling ReciprocityBRONWYN PREECEPART 4Local, Site-Specific Work, Microcosms, and the Periphery12 HAPPY ISLAND and the Islands within the IslandHENRIQUE AMOEDO, DIOGO GONCALVES, ELISABETE MONTEIRO, AND PAULA LEBRE13 The Travels of a Municipal Theatre Group for People with Learning Disabilities: Attempts at Subverting the Axes of InjusticeVIBEKE GLORSTAD14 Optimistic Becomings: Learning Disability Performance Outward BoundMARGARET AMESIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 360 Circus
Book SynopsisThis collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDownCircus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Welcome to the Wonderland of Contemporary CircusFranziska TrappPart I: Circus MeaningChapter 1. Circus Does Not ExistJean-Michel GuyChapter 2. "La Putyka" by Cirk La Putyka: A Glimpse at Czech Contemporary CircusVeronika ŠtefanováPart II: Circus PracticeChapter 3. On Mutations of Forms, Style, and Meaning: From a Traditional to a Contemporary Trapeze ActSandy SunChapter 4. Articulating Hand-Balancing: Finding Space for Critical Self-TransformationCamilla DamkjaerChapter 5. Extreme SymbiosisLouise Von Euler Bjurholm and Henrik AggerChapter 6. Hamlet: To Have Written or Not to Have Written for the TightwireLouis Patrick LerouxChapter 7. Verticality, Gravity, Sense of Balance. Transmitting a Technique, Conveying a Sensation: Practices and Discourses of Circus Arts TeachersAgathe DumontChapter 8. Reading Circus. Dramaturgy on the Border of Art and AcademiaFranziska TrappChapter 9. UpSideDown Circus and SpaceDie Zeichner. Andreas GärtnerPart III: Circus CultureChapter 10. Circus Between Technique and Technology: Heideggerian "Enframing" and the Contested Space of Free Expression Sebastian KannChapter 11. Chaplin, Brecht, Fo: Toward a Concept of Epic ClowningGaia VimercatiChapter 12. To Walk the TightwireAnte UrsicChapter 13. The Spatiality of Australian Contemporary CircusKristy SeymourChapter 14. Cheerful, Nostalgic, Melancholic: Mood in CircusPeta TaitIndex
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Taylor & Francis Dancing in the World
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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 Ltd Milestones in Musical Theatre
Milestones in Musical Theatre tracks ten of the most significant moments in musical theatre history, from some of its earliest incarnations, especially those crafted by Black creators, to its rise as a global phenomenon. Designed for weekly use in musical theatre courses, these ten chosen snapshots chart the development of this unique art form and move through its history chronologically, tracking the earliest operettas through the mid-century Golden Age classics, as well as the creative explosion in directing talent, which reshaped the form and the movement toward inclusivity that has recast its creators. Each chapter explores how the musical and its history have been deeply influenced by a variety of factors, including race, gender, and nationality, and examines how each milestone represents a significant turning point for this beloved art form.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, pol
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rechoreographing Learning
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.This book includes a description of the often-forgotten kinesthetic sense, body awareness, somatic practices, body-based way of thinking, mental imagery, nonverbal communication, human empathy, and symbol systems, what occurs in the brain during learning, and why and how movement and dance should be part of school curricula. This exploration arguers that becoming more aware of bodily sensations serves as a basis for knowing, communicating, learning, and teaching through movement and dance.This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in teaching methodology and for courses in physical education, dance, and education.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorPrefaceChapter 1: Combatting the Mind-Body DichotomyA Discussion of the Mind-Body DichotomyMaking the Case for the Body Basis of Knowing—PioneersAccessing the Body Way of KnowingExploration ExperiencesChapter 2: Sensory Reception and Their Contributions to Body KnowledgeHuman Sensory SystemsHuman Sensation and the Mind-Body ConnectionApplications to Learning Movement and DanceExploration ExperiencesChapter 3: Connections between Body, Brain, Mind, and ThinkingThe Body Way of KnowingThe Role of AttentionMental ImageryExploration ExperiencesChapter 4: The Role of the Body in Interpersonal Connections and CommunicationsIntroductionEmpathyNonverbal CommunicationSymbolic CommunicationExploration Experiences Chapter 5: The Body, Movement, Dance, and LearningPopular Learning TheoriesCreativityLearning through the ArtsExploration ExperiencesChapter 6: In Conclusion...Further EvidenceFuture ConsiderationsRecommendationsDiscussionGlossaryIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of Creative Performance and
Book SynopsisThis much-needed book introduces readers to the related fields of expertise, creativity, and performance, exploring our understanding of the factors contributing to greatness in creative domains.Bringing together research from the fields of creativity and expertise, it provides fresh insights for newcomers and seasoned scholars alike with its approachable guide to the multidimensional complexities of expertise development. It transcends traditionally studied fields such as chess, sports, and music, instead exploring the intersection of expertise with creativity and the performing arts. Dedicated applied chapters cover eight fields, including mind-games, music, dance, creative writing, acting, art, and STEM. The book also examines the facilitators of creative performance, including aesthetic sensitivity, creativity, and mental imagery, as well as the obstacles to performance, such as burnout, procrastination, and gender-related challenges. The book concludes by engaging with p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lives in Motion
Book SynopsisLives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand's dance cultures and their place in today's world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance, changing local traditions in the country, the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage, and hybrid features of the Thai dance world.The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theater, dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways, whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and Table of ContentsList of Figures viiContributors xForeword xivAcknowledgments xvi1 Introduction: Dancing in Thailand 1PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR2 Remembering Contemporary Thai Dance with an Eye to Its Futures 17SURAPONE VIRULRAK3 Unseen Thailand: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Dance in Contemporary Thai Culture 31PORNRAT DAMRHUNG4 Lakhon Phanthang: Thai Hybrid Dance Drama on the International Stage in the Early 20th Century 47PAKAMAS JIRAJARUPAT5 Reimagining Classical Thai Dance for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Pichet Klunchun’s “No. 60” 65LOWELL SKAR6 A Glocalized Tradition: Worldly Currents of Nora in Southern Thailand 81KANIT SRIPAORAYA7 Made to Order: Corporeality and Community in the Contemporary Isan Dancing Body 97TANATCHAPORN KITTIKONG8 Preparing BFA Students for a Life in the World of Dance: Thai University Pedagogies 111SUPHANNEE BOONPENG9 Lanna Dance Now: Our Moves with Contemporary Northern Thai Performance Cultures 125SARAN SUWANACHOTE, RONNARONG KHAMPHA, AND WAEWDOW SIRISOOK10 B-Floor’s Moves on the Contemporary Stage 141JARUNUN PHANTACHAT11 My Improbable, Extraordinary West-East Dance Life 156BENJAMIN TARDIF12 Dance Dreams Realized: My Journey from a Bangkok Dance School to New York’s Dance Theater World (and Back Again) 171NAPAT RODBOON13 Artists’ Interviews 186LOWELL SKAR AND PORNRAT DAMRHUNG14 Glossary of Terms Relevant to Dance in Thailand 225PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKARIndex 237
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Messy Connections
Book SynopsisThis book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice. It offers a philosophy of being in recovery that understands lived experience, and performance practice, as a dynamic system of interrelations with the human and nonhuman elements that make up the societal settings in which recovery communities struggle to exist. It thereby frames the process of recovery, and recovery-engaged performance, as an affective ecology a system of messy connections. Building upon ideas from posthumanist research on addiction, cultural theory on identity and new materialist interpretations of performance practice, it considers how such contemporary theory might
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