Performance art books

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An inquiry into probabilistic modes of sensing and making sense of reality developed by avant-garde artists  Read More >>

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. This book will be of great...  Read More >>

The book develops the concept of hauntological dramaturgy by engaging with a series of performances that commemorate,...  Read More >>

This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse cultural forms, turning to the insights...  Read More >>

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces...  Read More >>

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds...  Read More >>

Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to...  Read More >>

This book offers a broad overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution....  Read More >>

Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism....  Read More >>

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Eight lectures turn the medium of theatre inside out to explore how the tools of theatre and performance studies...  Read More >>

This Element presents the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based...  Read More >>

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private In the decades...  Read More >>

Compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, photography, scripts, performance instructions,...  Read More >>

"""The first book to explore folk singing from the perspective of performance studies, enabling original insights...  Read More >>

The acclaimed author of Cork Dork takes readers on a fascinating, hilarious and revelatory journey inside the impassioned,...  Read More >>

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

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring...  Read More >>

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre and performance case studies with a focus on...  Read More >>

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and...  Read More >>

Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance...  Read More >>

The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc.,...  Read More >>