Performance art Books

The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of 27 Aboriginal performers recruited from northern Queensland in the 1890s for a world tour that would culminate at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Those grand plans were ultimately dashed, and...

Prepare for the spotlight with Joanne Watkinson's expertly crafted scenes designed specifically for young actors.

In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse...

This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and...

Die Geistige Entwicklung Der Deutschen Schauspielkunst: Im 18 Jahrhundert (1898) ist ein Buch von Hans Oberlander, das sich mit der Entwicklung der deutschen Schauspielkunst im 18. Jahrhundert besch�����ftigt. Das Buch untersucht die geistigen und...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and electronic technology-based art. Less interested in the outcome itself - the artefact, artwork or performance...

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience's agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations. After considering...

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...

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,...

This book was originally made available to attendees of Doomsday 11 in May 2022. Doomsday is the world's premier annual gathering to celebrate the mysterious world of Bizarre Magic, Storytelling Magic and paranormal high-strangeness. Making Dark...

The popularity of participatory work with audiences is greater than ever, but the invitation to participate is rarely given attention as a feature of performance, or an important element of practice in its own right. This book presents a theory of...

Discover ease and skilfulness through principles from embodied psychology and the Alexander TechniqueThis book explores how we can encourage our mind, body and emotions to work harmoniously together to enable freedom and ease in ourselves and the things...

Recipient of the 2023 International Skiing History Association's Ullr Book Award.The story of ballet skiing is one of unrealized adulthood: a child of clashing influences became a mentor-deprived adolescent, ultimately orphaned and abandoned while...

Se sei alla ricerca di un modo nuovo per avvicinarti al Vangelo di Marco, e desideri che il Vangelo ti aiuti ad adorare e sperimentare Gesù, L'esperimento di Marco è il libro per te.Ne L'esperimento di Marco Andrew Page ti mostra come memorizzare il...

In the summer of 2016, NS, the performance art journal of Los Angeles, brought together 35 performance artists, scholars, and activists to discuss the impact of the ongoing AIDS crisis on queer communities and performance culture in Los Angeles...

Natascha sah in ihren Kleiderschrank und stellte fest: Nichts zum Anziehen. Frauen, die Nichts anziehen und tanzen sind Nackttänzerinnen und verdienen Geld damit. Natascha denkt nach, was Nichts zum Anziehen bedeuten kann.Natascha macht aus Striptease...

The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words.Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal...

This book explores the fundamentals of popular music performance for students in contemporary music institutions. Drawing on the insights of performance practice research, it discusses the unwritten rules of performances in popular music, what it takes...

First published in 1888, “Masks Or Faces?” is a detailed study in the psychology of acting. William Archer (1856 – 1924) was a Scottish critic and writer. Other notable works by this author include: “English Dramatists of To-day” (1882), “Henry Irving, a...

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among...

Praxinoscope is a quarterly performance platform in Los Angeles, California, US, presenting an evening of works created by different artists responding to a central theme. Months of the Year includes performance documents from our first presentation on...

Dive into this "introspectacle" and weird world of the Curious! This anthology of eight plays offers readers irreverent and iconoclastic narratives by playwrights with a keen ear for the eccentricities and homespun quirks of language. The Curious Theater...

Acting isn't just a job, it's a way of life. It makes you open your heart, expose your vulnerabilities and share your authentic self... over and over again.If you want to be the kind of performer who has an endless well of inspiration, creativity and...

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,...

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars...

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...

Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century.

Lee provides a comprehensive guide that traces the transformation of Korean theatre from traditional to modern theatre and examines the impact of the introduction of Western plays to Korean society.

Anthology and compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, lyrics, scripts, essays, fiction, and artist's commentary for Praxinoscope: Hours of the Day, performed October 12, 2022 at Poetic Research Bureau, 2220 Arts + Archives in Los...

Growing up, Megan Yim thought everyone had to learn piano. She was raised in an environment where weekly lessons and daily practicing were as expected as eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But the years have revealed to Megan that the gift of music is...

Volume four of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Franz Into April, Pasionaria, Aunt Mary and Up In Sweden.Franz Into April was first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art on 5 December 1977, produced by FRANK HATHERLEY, designed by...

Raising Simba takes readers on a journey from the dim corners of the South Side of Chicago to the bright lights of Broadway.The idea of starring as one of the world's most beloved characters on one of the world's biggest stages seems like a...

Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the 'anarchive', a conceptual...

Este libro quiere ayudar a entender la melodía musical y el contrapunto, para también poder aprender a componer, sea cual sea el estilo musical.Tradicionalmente, el contrapunto se ha enseñado usando el método de especies, basado en el cantus firmus.Pues...

This book probes the impacts of norms of embodied behaviour as deemed appropriate for males and females in mainstream public arenas of popular culture and the everyday. It highlights the need to safeguard the social and emotional well-being of those not...

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...

A family bent on revenge travels to a foreign land to seek the aid of a dragon but discover that a knight has slain it and is still trapped beneath the carcass. In exchange for their help, Sir Ekinroy vows to confront the man who murdered their loved...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears,and hopes in ways that reveal...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears,and hopes in ways that reveal...

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are...