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  • Our Mary: The Stage Life of Mary Anderson by Tracy, Ronald
    Ronald Tracy

    "Our Mary": The Stage Life of Mary Anderson

    "Our Mary" is the story of Mary Anderson's rapid rise to stage stardom beginning at the age of seventeen years. From her first appearance on the stage in her hometown Louisville, KY, she garnered both praise and criticism for her acting ability, while her...
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  • Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970 by Gregory, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Gregory

    Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy Through Celebrity, 1952-1970

    While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of...
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  • Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods by Paris, Helen
    Helen Paris

    Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods

    A hands-on guide for artists, students, and teachers of devised theater, at any stage of their practice. This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States...
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  • de Wet: Plays One by Wet, Reza de
    Reza de Wet

    de Wet: Plays One

    Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle The three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events. A circus has a mysterious significance in Missing (Mis) as a mother and daughter are visited by...
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  • Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century by Goldberg, Roselee
    Roselee Goldberg

    Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century

    This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Performance Now offers an unprecedented...
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  • Acting Action: A Primer for Actors by O'Gorman, Hugh
    Hugh O'Gorman

    Acting Action: A Primer for Actors

    "What is it that we're doing, when we're acting well?" This is the question famously posed by Earle Gister, the legendary head of the acting department at Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1999. In Acting Action, actor, director, and teaching artist Hugh...
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  • The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of Ancient Wisdom by Van Dullemen, Wim
    Wim Van Dullemen

    The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of Ancient Wisdom

    The teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff ( 1866-1949) are still being studied by an ever-growing number of people worldwide. While scores of books exist about the man and his teaching methods, few devote significant coverage to "the Gurdjieff Movements." These dozens...
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  • Double-Parked, with Tosca: Poems by Kaufman, Ellen
    Ellen Kaufman

    Double-Parked, with Tosca: Poems

    Ellen Kaufman's Double-Parked, with Tosca navigates the natural and the manmade-often with an eye on their strained juxtaposition-or unravels the complex dynamics of the physical, social, and political. Kaufman can go from elegizing an Elizabethan old dress past to the environmentally conscious "now when]...
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  • The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance by de Bellis, Vincenzo
    Vincenzo de Bellis

    The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

    How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by F lix Gonz lez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and morePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness...
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  • Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches by Luckett, Sharrell
    Sharrell Luckett

    Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

    Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate...
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  • The House Manager's Diary: A Guide to Customer Service for Regional and Community Theaters by Callaway, Mike
    Mike Callaway

    The House Manager's Diary: A Guide to Customer Service for Regional and Community Theaters

    A How-To Guide to effective customer service for Theatre House Managers and Patron Services Supervisors and Staff. Step by step instructions for planning, hiring, training and managing staff, volunteers and facilities to bring a happy audience into and out of a theatre performance, plus...
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  • An Actor Prepares by Stanislavsky, Constantin
    Constantin Stanislavsky

    An Actor Prepares

    2022 Facsimile of the 1936 Edition. This work is the first volume of Stanislavski's trilogy on the art of acting; it explains the art of acting in semi-fiction form. Fusing psychological realism and expressionism, his exploratory exercises teach actors to evoke past emotions that...
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  • Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation by Fleming Jr, Julius B.
    Julius B. Fleming Jr

    Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

    2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama...
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  • Tshepang: The Third Testament by Newton, Lara Foot
    Lara Foot Newton

    Tshepang: The Third Testament

    'And besides, nothing ever happens here. Nothing. Niks.' Outside a South African town a silent woman, Ruth, goes through her self-imposed rituals, a child's crib strapped to her back. An observer, Simon, who has loved Ruth since childhood, tells her story. Tshepang was inspired...
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  • The Roots of Amerta Movement: An Introduction to the Movement Improvisation of Suprapto Suryodarmo by Lavelle, Lise
    Lise Lavelle

    The Roots of Amerta Movement: An Introduction to the Movement Improvisation of Suprapto Suryodarmo

    Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) died in 2019. He devoted his life to developing, embodying, teaching and sharing his practice of Amerta Movement, which, in his own words, is not only a language for communication but also an expression of being. Prapto worked...
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  • Classical Music in a Changing World: Crisis and Vital Signs by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Classical Music in a Changing World: Crisis and Vital Signs

    In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this music has been challenged on social rather than aesthetic grounds. Lovers of classical music have been asked...
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  • Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures by Gallagher, Shaun
    Shaun Gallagher

    Performance/Art: The Venetian Lectures

    Performance/Art explores the phenomenology of skilled performance, ranging from athletics to the performing arts, including music, dance and acting. Gallagher reviews a variety of studies concerning different degrees of mindful awareness operative in performance, and builds on the concept of a meshed architecture, suggesting...
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  • Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York by Aramphongphan, Paisid
    Paisid Aramphongphan

    Horizontal Together: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York

    Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack Smith and experimental dance star Fred Herko. Taking a pioneering approach to this intersecting cultural milieu, the book uses a...
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  • Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion by Ugelvig, Jeppe
    Jeppe Ugelvig

    Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion

    An exhilarating scrapbook of the 1990s fashion-art scene in New York and Paris, with Bernadette Corporation, Susan Cianciolo, BLESS and DISIn this unprecedented volume, the New York- and London-based critic and curator Jeppe Ugelvig recounts a little-explored history of art/fashion hybridity through the genre-defying...
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  • Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism by Chepp, Valerie
    Valerie Chepp

    Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism

    The twenty-first century is already riddled with protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards are young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics....
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  • Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema by Morrison, Benedict
    Benedict Morrison

    Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema

    Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the...
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  • Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation by Sally, Lynn
    Lynn Sally

    Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation

    The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally offers...
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  • Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets by Dzama, Marcel
    Marcel Dzama

    Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets

    Eclectic and fantastic: the unique artistic world of the Canadian artistMarcel Dzama first gained fame with his drawings, but has recently expanded his practice to encompass film and three-dimensional work, developing an immediately recognizable language that draws from a diverse range of references and...
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  • Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance by Machon, J.
    J. Machon

    Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance

    This comprehensive text is the first survey to explore the theory, history and practice of immersive theatre. Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, Josephine Machon shares her wealth of expertise in the field of contemporary performance, inviting the reader to immerse themselves...
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  • Constance Dejong: Reader by Dejong, Constance
    Constance Dejong

    Constance Dejong: Reader

    The first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to Ellie GaA leading figure of the 1970s and '80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong...
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  • Narratology in Practice by Bal, Mieke
    Mieke Bal

    Narratology in Practice

    Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which the examples focus almost exclusively on literary...
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  • The Positive Path for Actors: How to Stop Second-Guessing Your Talent & Start Kicking A$$ in Your Career by Shaw, Shari
    Shari Shaw

    The Positive Path for Actors: How to Stop Second-Guessing Your Talent & Start Kicking A$$ in Your Career

    Acting isn't just a job, it's a way of life. It makes you open your heart, expose your vulnerabilities and share your authentic self... over and over again. If you want to be the kind of performer who has an endless well of inspiration,...
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  • Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror by Hand, Richard J.
    Richard J. Prof Hand

    Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror

    Since The Th蛯tre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and theatre historians. This book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts, and is the first attempt at...
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  • Dream of the Dog by Higginson, Craig
    Craig Higginson

    Dream of the Dog

    KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium. Patricia and Richard Wiley, an elderly white couple, are packing up to leave the farm they've sold to developers. Their preparations are interrupted by the arrival of a young man - 'Look Smart' - who used to...
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  • Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) by Tassel, Wesley Van
    Wesley Van Tassel

    Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition)

    "A workhorse of a book Beautifully conceived and executed. Clues to Acting Shakespeare is a no-brainer purchase for acting collections in all libraries." --Library Journal Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000...
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  • Improv Shaman: The Transformative Journey of Divine Play by Semelsberger, Keli
    Keli Semelsberger

    Improv Shaman: The Transformative Journey of Divine Play

    Improv comedy is known as a challenging comedic performance art, which Keli has been teaching, directing and performing for over a quarter of a century. As Keli expanded her world view by traveling to sacred places and training with master spiritual teachers, she came...
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  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany by Blaylock, Sara
    Sara Blaylock

    Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany

    How East German artists made their country's experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi's prying...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art by Grant, Jane
    Jane Grant

    The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art

    Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and practice in the twentieth century, sound art has often been described in terms of the things that it is understood to have left behind:...
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  • Scored to Death 2: More Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers by Fichera, J. Blake
    J. Blake Fichera

    Scored to Death 2: More Conversations with Some of Horror's Greatest Composers

    Following in the spirit and style of Scored to Death (2016), his popular first book of interviews with horror music greats, J. Blake Fichera's Scored to Death 2 collects 16 brand-new, info-packed, terrifyingly entertaining interviews with renowned composers who have provided the music for...
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  • Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations by Howard, Victoria
    Victoria Howard

    Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations

    Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Victoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon. Howardʼs...
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  • A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century II by Jin, Fu
    Fu Jin

    A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century II

    The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theatres, the interaction between commercial practice and theatre, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and a healthy dialogue between Western and Eastern theatres all contributed to...
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  • Glacier Elegies by Peerna, Jaanika
    Jaanika Peerna

    Glacier Elegies

    An in-depth look at Jaanika Peerna's iconic work, through essays, images of works and performances, and the artist's own words. Much of Jaanika Peerna's recent work is a lament to glaciers and natural ice. Her ongoing project Glacier Elegy forms the central core of...
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  • Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance & Protest by Museum Folkwang
    Museum Folkwang

    Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance & Protest

    A transcultural history of more than 120 years of art and dance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Global Groove outlines how encounters between Western and Eastern societies gave rise to new expressive forms in art, dance, performance, and design, and what influence this has had...
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  • Self-Representation in an Expanded Field by Lehner, Ace
    Ace Lehner

    Self Representation in an Expanded Field

    Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise...
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  • Performances That Change the Americas by Day, Stuart A.
    Stuart Alexander Day

    Performances that Change the Americas

    This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas-from Canada to the Southern Cone. Through the study of specific examples from numerous countries, the authors of this volume demonstrate a crucial, shared outlook: they...
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  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics by Haywood, Robert E.
    Robert E. Haywood

    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics

    This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this groundbreaking artistic form. Drawing...
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  • Porneia by Kac, Eduardo
    Eduardo Kac

    Porneia

    Finalist for Anna Rabinowitz Award from Poetry Society of America Porneia features a selection of works by Eduardo Kac realized in the context of the Porn Art Movement, a vanguard that emerged in 1980 under a military dictatorship in Brazil and which, for two...
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  • The Participator in Contemporary Art: Art and Social Relationships by Kaitavuori, Kaija
    Kaija Kaitavuori

    The Participator in Contemporary Art: Art and Social Relationships

    The early 21st century has seen contemporary art make continued use of audience participation, in which the spectator becomes part of the artwork itself. In this book, Kaija Kaitavuori claims that the participator' is a new artistic role that does not fall under the...
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  • An Exercise in Necromancy by Roche, Patrick
    Patrick Roche

    An Exercise in Necromancy

    "Now that there's a new Bowery Poetry Club and new Bowery Poetry imprint at The Operating System, we better have some new poems. And poems just don't get newer, fresher, or more timely than Patrick Roche's simple explosions. 'An Exercise in Necromancy' is the...
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  • Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World: Portraits and Revelations by Keckler, Joseph
    Joseph Keckler

    Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World: Portraits and Revelations

    "These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself."-Olivia Laing "The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor, and a formidable musical and literary erudition."-The New York Times Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the...
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  • Fry: Plays One by Fry, Christopher
    Christopher Fry

    Fry: Plays One

    Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and Siege In this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by...
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  • Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! by Miller, Carole
    Carole Miller

    Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama!

    Following the first collection of story drama structures, Into the Story 2: More Stories! More Drama! presents a well-argued approach to the value of children's picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building connections that promote a...
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  • Theatre by Cheek-O'Donnell, Sydney
    Sydney Cheek-O'Donnell

    Theatre

    Theatre presents readers with an introduction to the role theatre plays in human health and wellbeing. It presents an overview of scientific evidence, case studies on how theatre can be employed in different settings, practical advice for bringing the benefits of theatre into health...
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  • Liquid Loft: Shiny Shiny by De Chiffre, Lorenzo
    Lorenzo De Chiffre

    Liquid Loft: Shiny Shiny

    An intimate look at the artificial paradises of Austrian performance company Liquid LoftThe photographs compiled in Shiny Shiny document Austrian dance and performance company Liquid Loft's choreographic productions. This publication expands their purview outside contemporary dance, with contributions by scholars of theater, film, music...
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  • The Art of Resonance by Bogart, Anne
    Anne Bogart

    The Art of Resonance

    What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art?This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing arts. The word...
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