Art - Performance

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...

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,...

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

Daisy is sixteen. She was normal. Now she's just an ill person with a disease no one has heard of. The hospital tells her father Peter that she must travel regularly to London for specialist treatment - but how on earth will he get...

Author: Marina AbramovicISBN-10: 3775757317ISBN-13: 9783775757317Publisher: Hatje CantzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.40lbsSize: 11.18h x 8.74w x 1.18d

A study on empowering systemically marginalized youth through applied theater. Drawing on over twenty years of scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theater research with systemically marginalized youth, this book examines applied theater research conducted with youth in three specific contexts: alternative...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during...

Italian artist Gian Maria Tosatti (born 1980) creates sculptures and site-specific installations centered on collectivity and memory, many of which are conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, documented here, consists of two new series of paintings.Author: Gian Maria...

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...

It's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising...

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible....

A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside informed art circles. Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on trans-local...

Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body, combining historical research, queer theory and the analysis of bodily gestures. The book presents a dancerly story of 1960s art focusing on Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack...

A collection of essays examining experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry. Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid-twentieth century began to...

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist...

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist...

"Sited Body, Public Visions" is a remarkably personal account of the evolution of artist Ernesto Pujol's social practice as a public performer and social choreographer. His intimate text combines early childhood reminiscences, monastic experiences, memories of partners, letters exchanged with artist friends, and insider...

Turn off the phone, put on some good music, eat some junk food and have fun coloring stoned creatures. Go with them on this colorful psychedelic journey.- Contains 30 beautiful black and white stoner drawings to color.- the drawings are placed on one side...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three...

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceTheatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states...

Recent performances from the recipient of the 2020 Venice Dance Biennale Golden Lion AwardThis volume gathers documentation of four performance pieces by Spanish artist and dancer La Ribot (born 1962), showcased at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2021. Presented in dialogue...

Interdisciplinary and global in scope, Performing Archives/Archives of Performance investigates the relationship between live performance and recordings, bringing new--and productive--tensions between permanence and ephemerality into relief. Advancing theoretical understandings and analyzing specific artworks, performances, and archives, the contributors formulate new ways of understanding history,...

Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor's real life. In Star Bodies and...

Examining Afro-German artists' use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists' use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora's pasts and to counter not only...

Chronicling 10 years of the duo's collaborative practice and their influential artist-run performance and theater spaces in BerlinThis book, German Theater 2010-2022, is the first monograph on the work of the artist duo Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff. Their manifold practices play out, live...

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. Updated and revised throughout, the...