Performance

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789993278665Author Keith SciberrasFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Midsea Books Ltd,MaltaPublisher Midsea Books Ltd,MaltaWeight(grams) 196g

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...

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people’s...

In the theatre world, ‘off book’ signifies a deadline in the creative process: the date by which performers are to have memorised their lines and will no longer be allowed to carry their play script – the ‘book’ – on stage. As such, Off Book makes a...

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...

Celebrating ten years since the founding of the historic Performa biennial in 2005, Performa 15 once again explored the most exciting innovations in contemporary visual arts, dance, film, radio, sound and architecture. This edition brought together a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245119Author Christian KircherFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 900g

Scenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation...

Fresh perspectives on teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education are offered in this book. One-to-one pedagogy and Western art music, once default positions of instrumental teaching, are giving way to a range of approaches that seek to...

The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology,...

The image of the dramaturg resembling a stuffy librarian, as opposed to the largely intuitive process of theatre making, belongs to the past. Contemporary theatre performances not only tell a story, but constantly reflect on the world in which that story...

Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching theatre courses and creating theatre with older adults. This book provides instructors with syllabi, discussion questions, classroom management strategies, resource...

The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450080Author David VelascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 350g

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering...

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong,...

There are about ten books in the world on stage performance training. Most of them are in English, but there are a few in Spanish. There are none in Russian, although the father of modern theater, Konstantin Stanislavski, was born in Russia. In singing,...

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.Digital communication technologies and the social norms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616714Author Karen FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary between staging and exhibitionism. Always challenging and at times highly subversive, her performances question...

The book contributes to performance analysis, philosophy and Bergson studies. Using 'durational' performances, the author demonstrates new insights into Bergson's philosophy alongside key theorists in psychology, anthropology and philosophy. The author...

An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship. This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope...

In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx...

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...

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader's understanding...

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...

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern...

A history of mass performance systems, how they arise during eras of nationalization, and how they are shaped by modernity

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Moore, Burridge and the contributors explore the multifaceted role of improvisation, from rehearsal to performance, teaching to learning within the Southeast Asian performing arts scene. They feature a vital overview of how contemporary Southeast Asian...

A history of mass performance systems, how they arise during eras of nationalization, and how they are shaped by modernity

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This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media technology, translation studies, critical and psychoanalytic theory. Builds upon Antonin Artaud’s elaboration of the theatre as a plague,...

A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made...

Many people relax when coding is introduced as a language, rather than math. Even if someone creates alone, the technology involved in the process has already been developed by somebody else. Even one person's business requires professional input from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835951231Author Sofia VranouFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Intellect (UK)Publisher Intellect (UK)Weight(grams) 454g

An exploration of the life, artistic practice, social-historical context and cultural impact of Leigh Bowery. Vranou particularly considers Bowery's performative costuming and Live Art in relation to the ways they have influenced the broader spectrum of...

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 has...

This is a ground-breaking new book that re-considers a range of trajectories of influence across the established canon of twentieth-century practices and challenges conventions of performer training historiography.The book explores the pioneering radical...