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The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick...
Norman S. Poser (Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century... [more]
Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print '55-'88...
Peter Golding, Barry Miles
Performance art
Paperback
A unique insight into, and record of, the 20th century's most exciting and productive period of rock poster art and graphic... [more]
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance
Robert Leach
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardback
An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman... [more]
Choreographing Discourses: A Mark Franko Reader
Mark Franko
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment.... [more]
Performing Arts in Transition: Moving between Media
Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, Cornelia Schmitz
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between... [more]
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance
Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. Richards, Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays... [more]
Tadeusz Kantor
Noel Witts
Performance art; Theatre direction & production
Paperback
First edition reissued in 2019; first published by Routledge in 2009. [more]
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
Richard Kostelanetz
History of Art & Design Styles; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Music
Hardback
This text introduces the concept of avant-garde art to readers as it has been practised over the 20th century. Covering figures... [more]
Rudolf Laban
Karen K. Bradley
Performance art; Dance
Paperback
Rudolf Laban was one of the leading dance theorists of the twentieth century. His work on dance analysis and notation raised... [more]
The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre
David V. Mason (Rhodes College, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Religion: general
Hardback
Religious practitioners and theatregoers have much in common. So much, in fact, that we can say that religion is often a theatrical... [more]
Eugenio Barba
Jane Turner
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Paperback
First pubished 2004, reissued 2018 --Title page verso. [more]
Marina Abramovic
Mary Richards
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral... [more]
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science
Rick Kemp, Bruce McConachie
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Neurosciences
Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences... [more]
Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes
Sam Kinchin-Smith
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Opera
Hardback
`Who can turn skies back and begin again?' -Peter This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as... [more]
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre...
Tony Fisher, Eve Katsouraki
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action... [more]
Anna Halprin
Libby Worth (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Helen Poynor
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Paperback
This guidebook traces the life's work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer... [more]
Pina Bausch
Royd Climenhaga (The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Paperback
Presents an overview of theatre-maker Pina Bausch's work and methods. This title presents an historical and artistic context... [more]
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick...
Norman S. Poser (Brooklyn Law School, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies
Hardback
The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century... [more]
Alimentary Performances: Mimesis, Theatricality, and Cuisine
Kristin Hunt (Arizona State University, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Anthropology
Paperback
A pea soda. An apple balloon. A cotton candy picnic. A magical mole. These are just a handful of examples of mimetic cuisine,... [more]
: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985): Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain...
Raphael Samuel, Ewan MacColl, Stuart Cosgrove
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving... [more]
: David Rabe (1988): A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography...
Philip C. Kolin
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies
Paperback
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who... [more]
Tadeusz Kantor
Noel Witts
Performance art; Theatre direction & production
Hardback
First edition reissued in 2019; first published by Routledge in 2009. [more]
The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance
Bruce Baird (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA), Rosemary Candelario (Texas Women's University, USA)
Performance art; Theatre Studies; Dance
Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form... [more]
The Circus: A Visual History
Pascal Jacob (Lecturer, Sorbonne, France)
History of Art & Design Styles; Performance art; Social & cultural history; Popular culture
Hardback
First published in France under the title Une Histoire du Cirque by Pascal Jacob, 2016 aEditions du Seuil. [more]
Performance Autoethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture...
Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagin, USA)
Performance art; Research methods: general; Communication studies; Cultural studies; Anthropology
Paperback
This book is a manifesto. It is about rethinking performance autoethnography, about the formation of a critical performative... [more]
