Art - Performance

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Author: Nick KayeISBN-10: 1138907650ISBN-13: 9781138907652Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition. One activity that gains recognition and credibility as both fun and transformative is theatrical improvisation or improv. In this book,...

The clash between an exile community making art and the expectations of others A groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism, Performing Vulnerability delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a...

Offers emerging and established arts and nonprofit leaders a deep understanding of establishing an entrepreneurial mindset, enabling them to adapt quickly to opportunities while meeting the demands of managing the complex operations of an arts and cultural enterprise. Both a classroom text and case...

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand. How do practices of artistic intervention engage with...

Author: Candice HopkinsISBN-10: 1954947119ISBN-13: 9781954947115Publisher: Dancing Foxes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2025Pages: 544Format: Paperback

Reimagining theatre as a living, breathing collaboration between professional artists and the communities they serve. Jonathan Petherbridge reflects on three decades as Artistic Director of London Bubble, where he brought together volunteer and professional artists to create a form he calls Vernacular Theatre. Emerging...

A radical rethinking of theatricality as a disruptive force that unsettles knowledge and redefines the boundaries between theory and performance. In Theatricality Beyond Disciplines, Amin Erfani expands the concept of theatricality beyond the stage, tracing its destabilizing power through literature, psychoanalysis, media, and philosophy....

Scholarship and performance combine to show how drag can be a blueprint for critique, care, teaching, and worldmaking. Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview,...

Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media...

The Masquerade Handbook was developed in 1991 to help those wonderful people who volunteer to run science fiction and fantasy masquerade competitions. The art of competitive costuming had blossomed over the previous decade, and the complexity associated with the masquerade had also grown. The...

Draw the Line critically examines an exhibition by Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert (born 1975), realized at The Power Plant in Toronto. The central focus is a commissioned performance piece that explores the gestures, marks and effects produced by the moving or performing body.Author: Jimmy...

Ferndale, Laburnum Grove. A quiet, residential address in one of the newer north London suburbs. George Radfern, decent, respectable citizen and householder spends his Sunday evenings in his greenhouse, listening to Handel on the wireless. But when his grasping in-laws and daughter's obnoxious beau...

This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama. Engaging with Simon Barker's seminal work on dramatic representations of war and militarism, contributors highlight what often lies hidden beneath the surface of martial narratives, treating them as...

What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere...

Pop visionary, trendsetter and boundary-pushing artist, Charli XCX has redefined modern pop with her genre-blurring sound and fearless creativity. From her groundbreaking solo work to chart-topping collaborations with stars like Icona Pop, Troye Sivan and Lizzo, she has become the voice of a new...

This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces - from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to traditional theatre. Sex on...

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by its contributing authors, and calls attention to...

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. Author: Lauren MillerISBN-10: 103238185XISBN-13: 9781032381855Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2023Pages: 540Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.61lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w...

Performance in the Museum charts the main stages of the inclusion of performance in the museum from the 1960s to the present day, offering a thought-provoking and highly readable assessment of some fundamental questions in contemporary curatorial practice. While performance emerged in the late...

Author: Stuart Andrews, Patrick DugganISBN-10: 0807184543ISBN-13: 9780807184547Publisher: LSU PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2025Pages: 276Format: Hardcover

In How to be feral, Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our usual shape and movement and to explore moving without the head...

Author: Phil SmithISBN-10: 1911193899ISBN-13: 9781911193890Publisher: Triarchy Press LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2020Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Walking and movement artists often stumble when they describe the modes and registers of perception and expression they adopt in their practice. The attempt to represent their experience can end in a kind of somatic soup. Crab & Bee eschew the soup and, in...

London's East End 1973. Trevor organises a surprise party on the release of his brother Andy from Borstal. But Rose, his bingo-playing, pill-popping mother, has other plans.Author: Tunde IkoliISBN-10: 1840020849ISBN-13: 9781840020847Publisher: Oberon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.20d

Ballet is more than just a performance dance; it is a classical art of movement and self-expression. With the disciple and rigorous training involved in ballet, most ballet dancers start training at a young age. Even though ballet requires hard work you can help...

'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their...

A two part book reimagining dark matter and the darkTranstraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practices with innovative methodologies to explore themes of gender, sexuality, race, and spirit. Divided into two parts--The Unarrival Experiments...

This catalog documents American artist Jill Magid's (born 1973) project in conversation with the legacy of Mexican architect Luis Barrag n at MUAC in Mexico City, featuring photographs, letters and transcribed correspondence which illustrate Magid's exchange with the Barrag n Archives that comprise her...

How technology and the politics of attention changed the way we look at art The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance has changed. How are we expectedto engage with today's diverse practice? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has...

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one's arts career as a business. This essential companion to the inner workings of the arts world begins with defining the dream, including how to conceive mission...

When the canal burst its banks and a holy statue arrived through her bedroom floor, no one was more surprised than 12-year-old Veronica. With the help of her best friend she sets about using her new-found skills to create something magical within her ailing...

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, and sets the terms for female performance in subsequent historical periods. Moving...

A foundational work of performance art utilizing two early chatbots to critique the male domination of emerging technologiesA 1976 performance by American artist Barbara T. Smith (born 1931), I Am Abandoned featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (two of...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts? Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them...

Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and Curtmantle This volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter').In the first of these, commissioned by Laurence Olivier, a...

In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings and her niece Taylor, nine, decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding, tuna pasta-eating, alternative...

The first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates, one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today.Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces, institutions,...

Atoui's sculptural instruments invite participants to conduct sonic experiments with natural materialsLebanese artist and composer Tarek Atoui (born 1980) explores the medium of sound and how it shapes perception through dynamic installations and collaborative performances. He tests the unique ways in which elements such...

There is growing recognition of the value of the Arts in helping shape understandings and capabilities for life essential for meeting the challenges of the 21st century. Consequently, in Australia, the Arts are now mandated for all students from kindergarten to year 9. In...

The clash between an exile community making art and the expectations of others A groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism, Performing Vulnerability delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...

This book will accompany an exhibition of the same name which will be held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from 3 December 2016 to 21 May 2017 Many of the works in this book have never been published before Features...

By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time - simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as...

New essays open a variety of philosophies that explore and challenge the relationship between education and performance art. The essays collected in Performance Art in Practice are written from a practical point of view: how we concretely teach performance art, why we have chosen...

Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects--physical, emotional, and social--of medical procedures.In The...

Author: Mohamed AlmusibiliISBN-10: 3037646241ISBN-13: 9783037646243Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.71d

Author: Cally SpoonerISBN-10: 8867496425ISBN-13: 9788867496426Publisher: Mousse PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2025Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 4.70w x 0.50d