Art - Performance

Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial histories, climate change, and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan's site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider climate change...

Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production.Art and Expression　examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production, aesthetic reception, understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomenological theoretical and...

The oral autobiography of the controversial Vienna Aktionist, with archival materials and additional writings by NitschA pioneer of Vienna's postwar avant-garde and the most notorious member of the Vienna Aktionist group, Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) united performance, painting and musical composition in dramatic, often blood-soaked...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book...

Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of Soloist. A New York season with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA and four years as Principal Dancer of The Joffrey Ballet followed, where she...

Public speaking becomes possible for all of us when we learn how to control and use our stage fright. The audiences that we face in our business and social lives become less formidable when we understand what they want and need from us. A...

This is the first collection of plays by award-winning playwright Oladipo Agboluaje, a significant force in Black British drama. Described as an 'exciting, vital new voice' (Time Out), Agboluaje demonstrates his versatility to write plays that transcend African and British cultures. Early Morning is...

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel's coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first, "Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely" (1960), and the most scandalous, "120 Minutes dedicated to...

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

Contemporary Uganda and other East African states are connected by the experience of Idi Amin's tyranny, rapacious and murderous regime, and the latter second Uganda Peoples Congress government, that forced Ugandans to go into exile and initiate armed struggles from Kenya and Tanzania to...

Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of Bells The third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The...

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the...

Musicians and artists from Adam Bohman, Chris Cutler and Haco to Felix Kubin and Otomo Yoshihide have explored the creative potential of the radio This anthology explores the themes, concepts and techniques of artist-made radio across more than 20 years. Interspersed with micro-essays on...

Charlotte Moorman was a bold, barrier-breaking musician and performance artist and a tireless champion of experimental art, whose avant-garde festivals in New York City brought new art forms to a broad public. To date, recognition of Moorman has been limited mostly to her collaborations...

What in the world would I need a lot of money for? Bridget and her mother, Aisling, had no idea what they were getting themselves into the day they met Molly and her mom on the front porch. Join their curious journey from Beginner...

A long overdue retrospective on one of the most prominent experimental artists from former YugoslaviaHungarian poet and performance artist Katalin Ladik (born 1942) was an important female figure in the male-dominated literary and avant-garde art scenes of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1960s...

What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy.Author: R....

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.Author: Stuart Alexander DayISBN-10: 1032073624ISBN-13: 9781032073620Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d

Surveying the four decades-long career of a Czech artist working in video and action artThis is the first comprehensive survey on the 40-year career of Czech artist Tom疽 Ruller (born 1957), known for his action art and video art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation of...

A Woman's Right To Pleasure by BlackBook x LELO is a distinctive collection of over 200 works and original texts from over 60 of the world's most important and well-recognized female-identifying artists, writers and creative thinkers from around the globe. "If we could truly...

In late August 1951, the strange phenomenon known as The Lubbock Lights leads to days of UFO sightings from Texas northward through to Canada. An infant appearing in a Chicago hospital is swiftly adopted and whisked away to New York as quickly as health...

Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple's Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces performance art, multimedia theater, audio arts, and dance in the United States from 1983...

Plays created by children from Kindergarten to 5th. grade. The process involved coming up with ideas, choosing the characters, and creating some basic dialogues.Author: Maru GarciaISBN-10: 1541346769ISBN-13: 9781541346765Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2016Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores...

How black women have personified art, expression, identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre...

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a sharp reevaluation of...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book...

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting is the ideal collection for students and scholars of aesthetics, theatre studies and the philosophy of art. Ever since the Greeks, philosophy and theatre have always enjoyed a close and often antagonistic relationship. Yet until recently relatively...

An intimate history of the lost art of the psychedelic light showThe latest volume in Four Corners' Irregulars series on forgotten and fascinating subcultures of British visual history, Wheels of Light charts the history of light-show art in Britain from the 1970s on. Emerging...

This pioneering book has now been expanded with a new chapter that brings it into the second decade of the twenty-first century, mapping the global rise of performance to the present day. RoseLee Goldberg explores contemporary artists' approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and...

Eclectic installation works drawing on a foundation of performative and drag aestheticsArgentinian performance and installation artist Mercedes Azpilicueta (born 1981) explores the expressive possibilities of theatrical and sculptural forms. Her multilayered practice gathers characters from the past and present to address the collective body...

The Makeshift Body is the first monograph to document the work of contemporary artist Mandy El-Sayegh, whose process-driven practice is rooted in an exploration of material and language.Executed in a wide range of media, including densely layered painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance,...

A comprehensive monograph on the Argentinian pioneer of happenings, soft sculpture and video artThis handsome volume is published on the occasion of the Jewish Museum's retrospective of the Argentinian artist Marta Minuj? (born 1943). Celebrated for her performance art, happenings and large-scale public works,...

Tales of Enchantment: The Art of Magic by Walt AnthonyTechniques and Presentations to make your magic, more Magical! A lifetime of practical material is explored in this book: presentations, stagecraft, effects, performance technique, magic anecdotes; all from a full-time professional entertainer's thirty-plus year career....

The popularity of participatory work with audiences is greater than ever, but the invitation to participate is rarely given attention as a feature of performance, or an important element of practice in its own right. This book presents a theory of audience participation in...

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018. Alex and Sara are worried. Their daughter Lee starts school soon and they think her best friend Ernie is going to be a problem....

A Los Angeles drama critic called REGARDING MRS. CARTER a "Hamlet for women." That is certainly hyperbole, but this theatrical monologue provides a strong showcase for a mature female actor with an understanding of style, wit, and emotional honesty. It requires one costume and...

From a critically acclaimed, Pushcart Prize-nominated performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir about forging identity in the chasm between cultures and classes Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural...

Are you interested in the art of live theatre? Do you love enjoying a beautiful performance, but have avoided learning more about theatre production because it too often feels like a lecture? Are you completely new to the world of theatre and don't know...

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...

The first comprehensive monograph on an artist interrogating social and collective historiesThis is the first comprehensive survey on the career of Italian artist Marinella Senatore (born 1977), whose participatory and public artworks merge forms of protest, learning theatre, oral history, ceremony, dance and music.Author:...

Raising Simba takes readers on a journey from the dim corners of the South Side of Chicago to the bright lights of Broadway.The idea of starring as one of the world's most beloved characters on one of the world's biggest stages seems like a...

At the very least, this book is full to the brim with fun and entertainment: -The antics of the house dog, Winston. -The humorous side of ageing in Old Ain't for Sissies. -The fun and laughter shared with my best friend, at Scrabble, which...

"Perform these poems Do it your way " Peggy C. Hall invites teachers of English, drama, music, art, technology to use these two full-length poetry "shows" (or individual poems) as springboards to innovative, collaborative or solo, interpretations of the spoken word. An overarching theme...

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...

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

Franz Kamin (1941-2010) was an American writer, composer, poet, performance-installation artist, and pianist whose startling avant-garde works created multiple new genres. This collection incorporates his two main previous books--Ann Margret Loves You and Other Psychotopological Diversions (1980) and Scribble Death (1986)--plus his posthumous writing...

Actors! Have you been considering the enticing move to LA? Well, this is the book for you! Join award-winning actress Krystina Bailey Brawer as she takes you on her journey to navigating the "City of Dreams". She will share with you her wins and...

Plays with Films brings together texts of the final three productions of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery: Zomboid (2006), Wake Up Mr. Sleepy Your Unconscious Mind is Dead (2007), and Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008). In these three exhilarating and...