Performance

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,...

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company. Written by an experienced theatre practitioner and...

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of...

On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his...

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and...

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black...

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993561108Author Sibylle PetersFormat PaperbackImprint Live Art Development AgencyPublisher Live Art Development Agency

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same. This new play by the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter, is an...

The Green Room & Science Lab, The Panther Ejaculates, Uptight Upright, Upside Down, JABBA, I'M BACK! and Cocaine and Caviar-Monster Chetwynd gives her performances playful and often off-beat titles. Her colorful, imaginative costumes and props are all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247234Author J Blake FicheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 826g

A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for...

The story of cult figure Cookie Mueller's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with those who knew her, with photographs by David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a...

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,...

From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks,...

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational "unbelonging"? What is the relevance of "dyke chords" in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247142Author J Blake FicheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 606g

The experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very latest developments. Editors Helen Billinghurst, Claire Hind and Phil Smith put out a call for artists,...

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's "system" and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.This collection of essays from leading figures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689490Author Tai ShaniFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Drama-based Pedagogy examines the mutually beneficial relationship between drama and education, championing the versatility of drama-based teaching and learning designed in conjunction with classroom curricula. Written by seasoned educators and based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450066Author David VelascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304571Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071303252Author Chris ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. By definition, theatre requires the live bodies of performers in the same space and at the same time as the live bodies of an audience. And, yet, it's...

Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the "comfort women," the Japanese military's euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women-mostly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491677335Author Maria LalouFormat PaperbackImprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private   In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, a collective of young artists based in Zagreb took to using the city’s public...

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. ...

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a...

The book explores a range of her work, from karaoke performances, kitsch installations, paintings and sculpture, with a particular focus on new work emerging from her ongoing project, The Impostor Series. By using humor and parody in The Impostor Series,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903796126Author Lorenzo De ChiffreFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Verlag Fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag Fur Moderne KunstWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012138Author Wilfried RaussertFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991) was a classically trained cellist who rose to fame in the 1960s as a performance artist, usually in collaboration with such avant-garde artists as John Cage, Carolee Schneeman, and Nam June Paik. Her archive resides at the...

In !Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps...

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...

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773365Author Shaun GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International