Art - Performance

Over forty interviews and essays with leading cultural icons who have unique ways of critiquing "the system" with humor and ingenuity.Dazzling deceptions and provocative put-ons from some of the most outrageous artists and personalities. Spontaneous, improvised craziness from the Underground in New York, San...

A play that takes place in the Qassim region, where the Ghatafan tribe has its two branches, Abs and Zebian, 50 years before the mission of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. Much on the sanctity of human blood...

Maclean expands her oeuvre of surreal narratives through a deepfake film starring Sean Connery and Marilyn MonroeThe multimedia work of artist Rachel Maclean (born 1987) includes everything from babies with faceless mothers to deepfake films. The centerpiece of this collection of her recent works...

African Performance Review is a triennial, peer-reviewed journal of the African Theatre Association. For sales/subscription inquiry, please contact: sales@adonis-abbey.com. To contribute to the journal or for other editorial issues, please contact the journal's editor(Dr Osita Okagbue) African Performance Review, Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University...

In keeping with the aims of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) and the editorial board, the essays offered in this volume of African Performance Review have been selected to reflect the vibrant diversity which characterises African theatre and performance. The essays deal with a...

OFF THE PAGE blends lyric, theoretic/philosophic, autobiographical, and documentary forms of writing, and then plays on these forms in the arrangement, structure, and visual appearance of the text while also extending this textual performance 'off the page' into multimedia mise en scène. The book's...

In today's theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two characteristics: the authorship of the English text by a well-known local theatre specialist, and the absence of the term 'translation'-generally in favour of 'adaptation' or 'version'. The Translator...

Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of contemporary Live Art in Britain....

Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using "unbecoming" as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene...

Author: Sebastian SamurISBN-10: 1350406465ISBN-13: 9781350406469Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2027Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

In extensive interviews with collaborators and artists, Beecroft discusses the motivations behind (and audience reactions to) her provocative performancesPerformance artist Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969) is best known for her large-scale, regimentally choreographed performances and tableaux vivants involving naked or nearly naked women. In the...

"I don't think we'll get to Mars... not really...not normal people. Scientists might... it'll end up a scientific outpost like Antarctica... but it won't be for people like you and me."Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on Horsell Common. She believes something...

This book is an invitation to awaken the 3Rs: Reveling in your Body, Revealing your Radiant Essence, and Receiving what you Desire. The 3Rs can be the foundation - and the fruit - of your burlesque solo creation and performance journey!This book is for...

"This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In the book, Myron Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others' specific locales. The...

An intimate portrait of the performance artists' evolving relationship over the course of five decades, replete with rare behind-the-scenes photographs and court documentsThe body-related actions by the German and Serbian artistic duo and lovers Ulay/Abramovi? (1943-2000; born 1946) in the 1970s are highlights in...

""Pizarro"" is a historical play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It tells the story of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his conquest of Peru in the 16th century. The play is set in Lima, the capital of Peru, and revolves around the conflict...

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.Author: Jane De GayISBN-10: 0415174724ISBN-13: 9780415174725Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2000Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.51h x 6.38w x 0.95d

This book draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology.Author: Anaïs NonyISBN-10: 104118400XISBN-13: 9781041184003Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d

Too old to move with the times; too young to let go of their dreams Village school teacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is drawn into a series of extra-marital affairs that all hold the...

A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art historian and performance practitioner for whom life and art were inseparable. Written during a key transitional moment in her life and work (2005-2012),...

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways...

A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and exclusion of certain forms of life. Audibility decides livability. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates...

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.You may think of it not as a book, but as a library, an elevator, an amateur performance in a nearby theatre.Open it to the table of contents. Turn to the page that sounds the most...

In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought 'in dark...

This book provides a vital new history of feminist performance through an ecological lens. It argues that from the 1960s to the present, artists have used performance to challenge the linked oppression of women and nature. Proposing 'composting' as a new method for writing...

Reclaim your creative identity. Show up like you mean it. You didn't lose your artistry - you've just been trying to stay afloat in a world that's noisy, saturated, and constantly pulling you off course. Whether you're a dancer, actor, writer, musician, singer, visual...

Moving, powerful, ethereal; Mind Walkingis a celebration of the life of one extraordinary man, the enduring love story of a mature couple and their family.Bobby has led a remarkable life. Migrating from India as a young man he found love in the UK with...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any...

- A detailed survey of the painting styles of Guler and Kangra in the 18th and 19th centuries- Analyses the impact of the Bhakti movement and of Mughal painting on the painting traditions of the region- With more than 150 images of paintings, the...

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.Author: Petra KuppersISBN-10:...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of...

Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption. Author: Paul Mountfort,Anne Peirson-Smith,Adam GeczyISBN-10: 1783209569ISBN-13: 9781783209569Publisher: Intellect (UK)Language: EnglishPublished:...

This study of Bob Dylan's art employs a performance studies lens, exploring the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Chapters focus on the relationship of Dylan's recorded performances to the historical bardic role, to the American...

Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been...

The Governess is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1801. The story revolves around the character of Miss Leontine, a governess who is hired by Lord and Lady Ruby to educate their daughter, Lady Charlotte. Miss Leontine is a strong-willed and independent...

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of...

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is untouchable?'" Phenomenology invites...

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to theatre theory and practice...

'Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.'This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary, intermedial art...

The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas)is the first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece (1967). A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history,...

The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine...

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan...

This anthology of Gómez-Peña's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.Author: Guillermo Gomez-PenaISBN-10: 0415182360ISBN-13: 9780415182362Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2000Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.63w x 0.91dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 09/15/2000...

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia. This eclectic monograph explores multi-disciplinarily performativity through the body. Exploring the notion of the body as central to creative practice it draws...

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing cultural forms from 1960s-70s sociology, performance art, and...

This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions.Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different "cultures of participation", an interdisciplinary team of...

Joseph Sobol is one of a select few contemporary scholar-practitioners to chart the evolution of storytelling from traditional foundations to its current multifarious presence in American life. The years since his classic The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival (1999), have brought seismic shifts in...

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings...