Performance art Books

Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a...

An anthology of poems By Dr Candice Boyd, artist-geographer, on the non-representational geographies of art making. The collection includes an introductory essay by poet and academic, Dr Jessica Wilkinson, a literature review, 23 concrete poems, and an...

This book assembles the contributions to the international symposium Narrativity and Intermediality on the Contemporary Stage, based on the hypothesis that theatre performances still tell stories after all. They reflect the relation between narration,...

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has...

No Feedback is an immersive theatrical event that combines cutting-edge human rights research and physical theatre. An ensemble-driven devised work, it premiered at Theatre Delicatessen in London in 2015. In No Feedback: Performance in Context, the No...

Ever been completely overwhelmed with vocal information and find it difficult to separate myth from fact? Stop the guessing game and let this easy to read guide by Kate J. Doucet path the way to successfully sustaining your voice and prevent injury...

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art.

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.

A How-To Guide to effective customer service for Theatre House Managers and Patron Services Supervisors and Staff. Step by step instructions for planning, hiring, training and managing staff, volunteers and facilities to bring a happy audience into and...

INSTITUTION IS A VERB is a compendium of community-contributed texts, scores, notes, and documentation culminating and indexing 7 years of collaboration, para-capitalist research, and performative institution during Panoply Performance Laboratory's...

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote...

Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama,...

This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Grounded in theories of sustainability and with a renewed global focus for this second edition, the author's insights from contemporary...

Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.

Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad.Most of these poems bubbled up unbidden. Some were scribbled on an envelope to be performed at a poet's breakfast, some for slam competitions, or inspired by a...

Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment, many scholars have emphasized the former and interpreted the latter as the opposite side of liveness. In this book, the author...

Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and...

A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture.The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented...

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities. This book addresses the role and protection...

"A Trip To Mackin' Island" by Das Bruce was the second book written. Through a course of mishaps, the book and a collections of other things disappeared and didn't resurface for over 20 yrs. This book was written 25 years ago. It's a collection of...

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and...

The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances of place.This first book-length study on the topic argues...

जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो वे चुनते हैं हिंदुस्तान की यात्रा करना। यहाँ पहुँचकर वे खोलते हैं अपने जीवन के अध्याय और इसी क्रम में खुलने लगती हैं भारतीय समाज की न जाने कितनी परतें . . . "पता नहीं आपको...

Mythogeographer Phil Smith has been walking, exploring, photographing, filming, talking and writing about South Devon for about 20 years. He has absorbed it, and it him.In Anywhere, walking and writing as Cecile Oak (a young PhD student of Symbolist...

Contemporary Uganda and other East African states are connected by the experience of Idi Amin's tyranny, rapacious and murderous regime, and the latter second Uganda Peoples Congress government, that forced Ugandans to go into exile and initiate...

A Sardine Street Box of Tricks is a handbook for anyone who wants to make their own 'mis-guided' tour or walk.Written by 'Crab Man' and 'Signpost' (Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti - both members of Exeter-based Wrights & Sites group), the book is based...

Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and...

Walking and movement artists often stumble when they describe the modes and registers of perception and expression they adopt in their practice. The attempt to represent their experience can end in a kind of somatic soup. Crab &...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kunst - Installationen, Aktionskunst, 'moderne' Kunst, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Feministische Positionen in der Kunst Afrikas und seiner...

'Ways to Wander' is your invitation to experiment with a whole range of different ways to 'go for a walk'. Rather than picking up a map and following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly different suggestions, tactics and recollections, all...

In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39's creation, operation, and...

In recent years classical music has become a test case for debates over the future of culture. As times have changed, the value traditionally placed on this music has been challenged on social rather than aesthetic grounds. Lovers of classical music have...

A poetic play that talks about the Arab Al-Rula tribe located in the desert between Hama and the Levant.A new theatrical epic written by His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah condemns the idea of violence through a historical theme, to make the relationship...

A play that takes place in the Qassim region, where the Ghatafan tribe has its two branches, Abs and Zebian, 50 years before the mission of the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. Much on the sanctity of human blood and money...........

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.

This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the...

African Performance Review is a triennial, peer-reviewed journal of the African Theatre Association. For sales/subscription inquiry, please contact: sales@adonis-abbey.com. To contribute to the journal or for other editorial issues, please contact the...

Actors! Have you been considering the enticing move to LA? Well, this is the book for you! Join award-winning actress Krystina Bailey Brawer as she takes you on her journey to navigating the "City of Dreams". She will share with you her wins and woes and...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on...

This new book is first of two books to be published about the music business a collection of subjects previously released as ebooks. This book is the result of my 35 years in the business of music. Over those 35 years I have written, collected and...

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.

Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor’s real life. In Star Bodies and...