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Performance Art: Education and Practice by Angeliki Avgitidou 9781032055176
RRP: $262.50$226.51The book provides inventive ways of approaching the theory, history and practice of performance art, based on the author’s many years of teaching and performing experience.This book proposes useful tools of practice, inventive exercises and comprehensive... -
Scenography and Art History: Performance Design and Visual Culture by Astrid Von Rosen 9781350204485
$50.63Scenography 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... -
Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance: How We Lost the Felt Experience, Why it Matters, and How to Return to Our Natural Way of Being by Jay Kimiecik 9781032279015
RRP: $67.18$59.49This 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... -
Asian City Crossings: Pathways of Performance through Hong Kong and Singapore Rossella Ferrari 9780367515591
RRP: $77.68$71.06Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based... -
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art by Bertie Ferdman 9781350336162
$85.87The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands 'performance art' as an... -
Aquatopia: Climate Interventions by May Joseph
RRP: $96.58$84.27Aquatopia 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... -
Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image Steve Seid 9781941753354
RRP: $63.00$42.59A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critique This book examines the complex set of cultural references and art-making strategies informing Ant Farm's seminal 1975 performance Media Burn in which... -
Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation by Naphtaly Shem-Tov
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli theatre with a critical gaze. It covers the conceptualization and typology, not along a chronological axis, but rather through seven... -
Diplomazija Astuta: The Malta Pavillion at the Venice Biennale 2022: 2022 by Keith Sciberras
RRP: $54.60$37.76Apologies 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 -
Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body by Myron Beasley
RRP: $104.98$91.35This 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... -
Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance: How We Lost the Felt Experience, Why it Matters, and How to Return to Our Natural Way of Being by Jay Kimiecik
RRP: $262.50$226.51This 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... -
Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
RRP: $209.90$199.94In 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: Art, Dance, and Queer Embodiment in 1960s New York by Dr Paisid Aramphongphan
RRP: $178.50$126.36Horizontal 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... -
Performa 15 Roselee Goldberg 9781941366196
RRP: $56.70$38.62Celebrating 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... -
Die letzten Tage der Oper (German edition) by Christian Kircher
RRP: $73.50$47.10Apologies 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: Performance Design and Visual Culture Astrid Von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9781350204447
$223.63Scenography 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... -
Teaching and Evaluating Music Performance at University: Beyond the Conservatory Model by John Encarnacao
RRP: $83.98$73.63Teaching and evaluating music performance at university explores the fresh perspectives on teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education. Chapters also consider the evolution of the student, play as a medium for learning, reflective essay... -
Motherland: Pushpamala N.'S Woman and Nation by Monica Juneja
RRP: $52.40$34.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392130113Author Monica JunejaFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Pramod KapoorPublisher Pramod KapoorWeight(grams) 222g -
Joseph Beuys–Manresa – A Spiritual Geography by Friedhelm Mennekes
RRP: $58.80$57.52The 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,... -
Dramaturgy: An Introduction by DR. Cock Dieleman
$78.62The 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: A Handbook for Instructors, Older Adults, Communities, and Artists Rae Mansfield 9781789384925
RRP: $209.90$182.05Theatre 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... -
Performance in a Militarized Culture Sara Brady (Bronx Community College, CUNY, New York, USA) 9781138740808
RRP: $94.48$83.33The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status... -
Performing Human Rights - Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South Liliana Gomez 9783035802610
RRP: $84.00$80.96The 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,... -
The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics by Ren Ellis Neyra
RRP: $44.08$38.58In 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... -
The World of Physical Culture in Sport and Exercise: Visual Methods for Qualitative Research by Cassandra Phoenix
RRP: $283.50$246.29Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods. Visual Methods in Physical Culture is the first book in the field of sport and exercise sciences dedicated to harnessing... -
Sarah Michelson by David Velasco
RRP: $41.90$27.99Apologies 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 -
Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance by Hershini Bhana Young
RRP: $52.48$45.51Insists 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... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change Stephanie Burridge 9780367748760
RRP: $83.98$76.50This 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,... -
Stage Performance for Singers: A Practical Course in 12 Basic Steps by Martin Karnolsky
RRP: $48.30$42.36There 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,... -
The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800 by Tomas Macsotay
RRP: $63.00$56.03This 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 Lyndsay Michalik Gratch 9781138342149
RRP: $75.58$69.24Digital 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... -
Towards a Theatrical Jurisprudence Marett Leiboff 9781138672789
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and... -
The Reality Shows Karen Finley 9781558616714
RRP: $27.28$19.38Apologies 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... -
Manon by Kunsthaus Zofingen
RRP: $94.50$63.53Since 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... -
Bergson and Durational Performance: (Re)Ma(r)king Time by James Layton
RRP: $209.90$199.94The 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... -
The Dinner Party Revisited by Katherine Araniello 9780957393875
$25.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957393875Author Katherine AranielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Live Art Development AgencyPublisher Live Art Development Agency -
Towards a Theatrical Jurisprudence by Marett Leiboff 9780367784690
RRP: $88.18$77.18This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility. Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and... -
Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication Catherine Spencer 9781526182524
RRP: $63.00$53.55Beyond 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... -
COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco Karen Finley 9780872869356
RRP: $27.28$23.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eisa Davis & Jillian Walker: Two Conversations Eisa Davis 9781737025542
RRP: $16.78$14.26In September 2021, playwright/performers Eisa Davis and Jillian Walker met to discuss Walker’s performance ritual, SKiNFoLK: An American Show (forthcoming from 53rd State Press in March 2022). In January 2022, they met again to discuss Davis’s...