Performance

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...

This 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...

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...

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...

Apologies 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

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

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...

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Crossings is a book about queer cruising. A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic, it hovers between artist book and scholarly work, between manifesto and sex memoir, shamelessly taking queer sex and sex cultures seriously as ways...

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...

Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth in high schools, in a youth jail and with street-involved youth. Explores strategies for engaging youth, the...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understanding of it. Performance art emerged internationally between the 1960s and 1970s crossing disciplinary...

Crossings is a book about queer cruising. A creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic, it hovers between artist book and scholarly work, between manifesto and sex memoir, shamelessly taking queer sex and sex cultures seriously as ways...

Based on original research including interviews with art professionals, Performance in the Museum provides a unique and fresh perspective on the museum's role in the development of performance art.

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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...

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of...

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter...

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of...