Performance art books

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Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

Author: Melin Levent Yuna
ISBN: 9781032011349
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of the Argentine tango social dancing among Muslim...  Read More >>

(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century...

Author: Lynn Deboeck ,  Aoise Stratford
ISBN: 9781032303116
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from...  Read More >>

Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia: Touring Diaspora, 1900s–1970s

Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia: Touring Diaspora,...

Author: Beiyu Zhang
ISBN: 9781032013046
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Author: Jennie Hirsh ,  Isabelle Loring Wallace
ISBN: 9781032304762
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice

Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Susanne Ravn ,  Simon Høffding
ISBN: 9780367546687
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions...  Read More >>

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Author: Magnus Tessing Schneider ,  Roberta Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032158334
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don...  Read More >>

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes...

Author: Rachel Bowditch ,  Paula Murray Cole
ISBN: 9781138680029
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Inside The Performance Workshop is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and...  Read More >>

Consent in Shakespeare: What Women Do and Don’t Say and Do in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean Comedies and Origin Stories

Consent in Shakespeare: What Women Do and Don’t Say...

Author: Artemis Preeshl (Loyola University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367644352
Format: Paperback
$81.99

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage this book will enhance...  Read More >>

Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen: Five Encounters with the Sages

Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen: Five Encounters...

Author: Juliusz Tyszka
ISBN: 9780367644413
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The book contains three accounts of five public speeches and conversations with the public of two outstanding figures...  Read More >>

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect,...

Author: Charlotte Farrell
ISBN: 9781032076621
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book examines select Australian theatre productions by director, Barrie Kosky. This text contextualizes the...  Read More >>

Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity, Celebrity, and Glamour

Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity,...

Author: Kate Holmes
ISBN: 9781032132914
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Through detailed and cleverly analysed case studies, Kate Holmes' book highlights female solo aerialists of the...  Read More >>

Hellenic Common: Greek Drama and Cultural Cosmopolitanism in the Neoliberal Era

Hellenic Common: Greek Drama and Cultural Cosmopolitanism...

Author: Philip Zapkin
ISBN: 9780367536480
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Hellenic Common argues that theatrical adaptations of Greek tragedy exemplify the functioning of a cosmopolitan...  Read More >>

The Routledge Pantomime Reader: 1800-1900

The Routledge Pantomime Reader: 1800-1900

Author: Jennifer Schacker ,  Daniel O'Quinn
ISBN: 9781032021218
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The Routledge Pantomime Reader is the first anthology to document this entertainment genre—one of the most distinctive...  Read More >>

Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narratives

Home and Away: Lived Experience in Performative Narratives...

Author: Leigh Anne Howard
ISBN: 9780367698812
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation...  Read More >>

Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times

Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest...

Author: Kendra Capece ,  Patrick Scorese
ISBN: 9781032071978
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global...  Read More >>

Surviving Theatre: The Living Archive of Spectatorship

Surviving Theatre: The Living Archive of Spectatorship...

Author: Marco Pustianaz
ISBN: 9781032078472
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was...  Read More >>

360° Circus: Meaning. Practice. Culture

360° Circus: Meaning. Practice. Culture

Author: Franziska Trapp
ISBN: 9781032138060
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.  Read More >>

Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions

Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension...

Author: Clemens Risi
ISBN: 9780367645052
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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Asher Hartman - Mad Clot on a Holy Bone - Memories of a Psychic Theater

Asher Hartman - Mad Clot on a Holy Bone - Memories of...

Author: Asher Hartman ,  Janet Sarbanes
ISBN: 9780998861678
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater is the first published collection of the work of playwright...  Read More >>

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Author: Jennie Hirsh ,  Isabelle Loring Wallace
ISBN: 9781032290454
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes...

Author: Rachel Bowditch ,  Paula Murray Cole
ISBN: 9781138680012
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Inside The Performance Workshop is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation

Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation,...

Author: Tancredi Gusman
ISBN: 9781032231341
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape...  Read More >>

Theatres of Architectural Imagination

Theatres of Architectural Imagination

Author: Lisa Landrum ,  Sam Ridgway
ISBN: 9781032286112
Format: Paperback
$75.99

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