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Marina Abramovic
Mary Richards
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral... [more]
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Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Michael Y. Bennett
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Educational material
Paperback
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though,... [more]
$14.99
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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic
Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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A celebrated performance artist details her life, from her dark childhood in postwar Yugoslavia and her formative relationships... [more]
$24.99
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Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers...
Bree Hadley
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Disability: social aspects
Hardback
In Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley examines the performance practices... [more]
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Histories and Practices of Live Art
Deirdre Heddon, Jennie Klein
Art & Architecture; Performance art; Theatre Studies
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In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported... [more]
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Come from Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical
Irene Sankoff, David Hein
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Music; Musicals; Popular culture
Hardback
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock - a fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical,... [more]
Jerzy Grotowski
James Slowiak, Jairo Cuesta
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Acting techniques; Theatre direction & production
Paperback
Outlining Jerzy Grotowski's contributions to 20th century performance, this book demonstrates his significance and how his... [more]
Towards a Theory of Mime
Alexander Iliev
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Mime
Paperback
This book was originally published as volumes 1 and 2 (of 4) of Obshta teori'ia i praktika na pantominata (Sofia, Sonita &... [more]
In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays
Jordan Schildcrout
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1,000 performances,... [more]
Teaching Acting with Practical Aesthetics
Troy Dobosiewicz
Performance art; Acting techniques
Paperback
Teaching Acting with Practical Aesthetics uses constructivist pedagogy to teach acting via Practical Aesthetics, a system... [more]
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK), Michael Huxley (De Montfort University, UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Paperback
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which... [more]
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, Noel Witts (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives... [more]
In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays
Jordan Schildcrout
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1,000 performances,... [more]
Teaching Acting with Practical Aesthetics
Troy Dobosiewicz
Performance art; Acting techniques
Hardback
Teaching Acting with Practical Aesthetics uses constructivist pedagogy to teach acting via Practical Aesthetics, a system... [more]
Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary...
Yana Meerzon, Katharina Pewny
Performance art; Theatre direction & production
Hardback
Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy and the... [more]
Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays
Maisha S. Akbar (Fort Valley State University, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; History of the Americas; Feminism & feminist theory
Hardback
Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's... [more]
$94.99
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How and Why We Teach Shakespeare: College Teachers and Directors Share How...
Sidney Homan
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Teaching skills & techniques
Paperback
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences... [more]
Dance, Modernism, and Modernity
Ramsay Burt (De Montfort University, UK), Michael Huxley (De Montfort University, UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Hardback
This collection of new essays explores connections between dance, modernism, and modernity by examining the ways in which... [more]
$231.00
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Real Animals on the Stage
Teresa Grant (University of Warwick, UK), Ignacio Ramos-Gay (University of Valencia, Spain), Claudia Alonso Recarte (University of Valencia, Spain)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the... [more]
After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation...
Claudia Tatinge Nascimento
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship
Hardback
After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created... [more]
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Marina Abramovic, Carine Fol, Scott Samuelson, Sophie Whettnall
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
Paperback
This unconventional publication explores the process of making art through the work and studio practice of Sophie Whettnall... [more]
What is Scenography?
Pamela Howard
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
Expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and... [more]
None of Us is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the...
Emma Frankland (Author)
Performance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism
Paperback
Through a series of five performances, None of Us is Yet a Robot charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition... [more]
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, Noel Witts (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives... [more]
Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities
Marilyn Nonken (New York University, USA)
Performance art; Theory of music & musicology; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
Hardback
Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators can... [more]
