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  • Sasha Waltz: Installations, Objects, Performances by Waltz, Sasha
    Sasha Waltz

    Sasha Waltz: Installations, Objects, Performances

    German choreographer Sasha Waltz (born 1963) is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation," expanding the genre to include actions and people. This volume documents an exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe, comprised of huge installations supplemented by many smaller installations and objects,...
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  • Horror Magic Coloring books for adults: A Gift for people who love Black Magic and Halloween by Tiny Cactus Publishing
    Tiny Cactus Publishing

    Horror Magic Coloring books for adults: A Gift for people who love Black Magic and Halloween

    GREAT GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS This incredible Adult Coloring Book by best-selling artist This book is the perfect way to relieve stress and while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Product Details: Printed single sided on bright white paper Perfect for all...
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  • Phantom of the Opera: A Social History of the World's Most Popular Musical by Kendall-Tackett Phd, Kathleen
    Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Phd

    Phantom of the Opera: A Social History of the World's Most Popular Musical

    Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running, largest-grossing musical of all time. This book is the story of the stage show, film, and sequel, and the controversies that have surrounded them. You will learn why: Sarah Brightman had to leave the UK after her...
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  • New Art Theatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic by Young, Paul David
    Paul David Young

    New Art Theatre: Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic

    "newARTtheatre's greatest value may be that of a historical document of the understanding of a specific set of performance practices in its own time of making. The fresh and speculative perspective of these artists grappling with the evolving paradigm of the tightening entanglement between...
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  • The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics by Freeman, John
    John Of Psychology Freeman

    The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics

    What makes a particular performance 'great'? The Greatest Shows on Earth offers an address that focuses sharply on theatre as performance: as an event that can stir the blood, the spirit and the brain like nothing else. The result is a book about fourteen...
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  • Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal by Knight, Autumn
    Autumn Knight

    Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal

    This first comprehensive publication on New York-based interdisciplinary artist Autumn Knight documents her performances addressing the regulation of African American female bodies. Accompanying these images are scores and notes, text by performance studies scholars and an artist interview with choreographer Cynthia Oliver.Author: Autumn KnightISBN-10:...
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  • Improvisation Rites: from John Cage's 'Song Books' to the Scratch Orchestra's 'Nature Study Notes'. Collective practices 2011 - 2017 by Szczelkun, Stefan
    Stefan Szczelkun

    Improvisation Rites: from John Cage's 'Song Books' to the Scratch Orchestra's 'Nature Study Notes'. Collective practices 2011 - 2017

    An account of an intergenerational project that used my experience of The Scratch Orchestra (1969 - 72) to work with a younger generation of people. We started by doing two performances of John Cage's magnum opus 'Song Books'. Then we worked with the improvisation...
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  • Blonde Poison by Louw, Gail
    Gail Louw

    Blonde Poison

    Blonde Poison is based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War II who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews. Gail Louw's powerful play examines the motivation of evil. Stella Goldschlag was living illegally in war-torn Berlin when she herself was...
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  • This Other City by Carville, Daragh
    Daragh Carville

    This Other City

    In the newest play from this prolific Northern Irish writer, Carville turns his attention to the demons beneath the shiny surface of the new, metropolitan Belfast. This Other City plays out against a backdrop of coffee shops, beauty salons and overpriced apartments. It's a...
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  • Being a Dancer: Advice from Dancers and Choreographers by Winship, Lyndsey
    Lyndsey Winship

    Being a Dancer: Advice from Dancers and Choreographers

    This book contains advice from some of the world's best dancers and choreographers, covering subjects both motivational and mundane. How do I get hired as a dancer? Where and when should I train? How can I protect my body from injury? How do I...
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  • Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Great Expectations

    Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved story brings its settings and characters to thrilling theatrical life. From its opening image of little Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, to...
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  • Breakdance: Coloring & Activity Book (Extended): A wonderful introduction to this acrobatic streetdance. by Boaz, Idan
    Idan Boaz

    Breakdance: Coloring & Activity Book (Extended): A wonderful introduction to this acrobatic streetdance.

    Looking for an activity for child which combines both dance and acrobatics? Breakdancing or B-boying is style of streetdance which exploded on to world scene after it's introduction in the 1970s. It's popularity grew from it's encapsulating acrobatic moves, heavily connected to gymnastics. If...
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  • Breakdance: Coloring & Activity Book: A wonderful introduction to this acrobatic streetdance. by Boaz, Idan
    Idan Boaz

    Breakdance: Coloring & Activity Book: A wonderful introduction to this acrobatic streetdance.

    Looking for an activity for child which combines both dance and acrobatics? Breakdancing or B-boying is style of streetdance which exploded on to world scene after it's introduction in the 1970s. It's popularity grew from it's encapsulating acrobatic moves, heavily connected to gymnastics. If...
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  • Storytelling: 2 Books in 1 - How to Use Storytelling in Your Communication to Connect with People, How to Enjoy Conversations to Bui by Coleman, Keith
    Keith Coleman

    Storytelling: 2 Books in 1 - How to Use Storytelling in Your Communication to Connect with People, How to Enjoy Conversations to Bui

    Two Books Packed Into One To Steadily Build Your Social Interaction Skills This Book IncludesBook 1) Conversation Skills: How to Use Storytelling in Your Communication to Gain Recognition, Be More Likeable, & Connect with People Keeping someone's attention while telling a story is a...
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  • Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is? by Drexler, Rosalyn
    Rosalyn Drexler

    Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?

    Painter, novelist and wrestler, Drexler is the great polymath of PopRosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the late 1950s and early '60s, she showed sculpture at New York's Reuben Gallery, a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who...
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  • The Parable Conference by Helguera, Pablo
    Pablo Helguera

    The Parable Conference

    "An exercise in highly provocative, original thinking, Pablo Helguera's The Parable Conference asks loads of inconvenient questions about art, only to answer them through a series of entertaining fictions. "Is there too much art in the world?" "How should art be taught?" And, "Why...
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  • John Wood and Paul Harrison: Answers to Questions by Wood, John
    John Wood

    John Wood and Paul Harrison: Answers to Questions

    John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy. Working together since 1993, the British duo use a wide variety of props, including furniture, household utensils and their own bodies, setting up comical interactions with objects...
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  • Titian Metamorphosis: Art, Music, Dance: A Collaboration Between the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery by Moore Ede, Minna
    Minna Moore Ede

    Titian Metamorphosis: Art, Music, Dance: A Collaboration Between the Royal Ballet and the National Gallery

    This book celebrates a collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Ballet in London, for which Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger worked with some of the world's best known choreographers and composers.Author: Minna Moore EdeISBN-10: 1908970049ISBN-13: 9781908970046Publisher: Art / BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • How To Sing Better: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Singing Better by Howexpert Press
    Howexpert Press

    How To Sing Better: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Singing Better

    If you want to sing better and become a successful professional singer, then get the "How to Sing Better" guide. Here's what you get: - Improve your singing voice.- Become the best singer you can be.- How to get a singing career.- How to...
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  • More Card Manipulations - Series No. 1 by Hugard, Jean
    Jean Hugard

    More Card Manipulations - Series No. 1

    This vintage book contains the second in the series of handbooks on card manipulation by master magician Jean Hugard. Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly...
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  • Staging Art and Chineseness: The Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Expositions by Davidson, Jane Chin
    Jane Chin Davidson

    Staging Art and Chineseness: The Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Expositions

    This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways...
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  • Unlimited action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s by Johnson, Domonic
    Dominic Johnson

    Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s

    Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as...
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  • Dancing in His Presence: A GUIDE TO ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A DANCE MINISTRY 2nd Edition by Wright, Margaret Brewington
    Margaret Brewington Wright

    Dancing in His Presence: A GUIDE TO ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A DANCE MINISTRY 2nd Edition

    Author: Margaret Brewington WrightISBN-10: 1493156446ISBN-13: 9781493156443Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2015Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
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  • Six Short Plays / One Woman: Life, Facing the Space, The Money Man, Little Girl Fallen, Female of the Species, Till Death We Part by De Bhrun, Amy
    Amy De Bhrun

    Six Short Plays / One Woman: Life, Facing the Space, The Money Man, Little Girl Fallen, Female of the Species, Till Death We Part

    In the short space of 2 years, Amy De Bhr n wrote 6 different one woman shows and performed them around the world. Each play is an eclectic mix of comedic and heartwarming characters, branded with Amy's unique style of theatre. Whether you need...
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  • Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso by Cheam Shapiro, Sophiline
    Sophiline Cheam Shapiro

    Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso

    Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso retells the sacred drama of the same name, a tale in which rivaling students of a powerful hermit bring life to lightning, thunder, and rain. Weaving together interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations, the book uses the story to explore...
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  • Performance Anxiety Strategies: A Musician's Guide to Managing Stage Fright by McGrath, Casey
    Casey McGrath

    Performance Anxiety Strategies: A Musician's Guide to Managing Stage Fright

    The authors present relevant and noteworthy research and insight into many therapies, including holistic, exposure, cognitive and behavioral therapies, and medicinal treatments. Each chapter features self-guided activities and journaling exercises, words of wisdom from established performing artists and athletes, and suggestions for music teachers.Author:...
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  • Lou Reed: Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe by Scoates, Christopher
    Christopher Scoates

    Lou Reed: Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe

    This volume documents the installation at the Cranbrook Art Museum of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, a live ambisonic 3-D sound installation inspired by Reed's controversial 1975 album Metal Machine Music. Reed worked with acoustic specialists to recreate the live experience.Author: Christopher ScoatesISBN-10: 0989186474ISBN-13:...
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  • Dirty Ear Report #1 by Bulut, Zeynep
    Zeynep Bulut

    Dirty Ear Report #1

    A new platform for the discussion of sonic art Dirty Ear Report offers a new platform for sonic research, in which leading sound artists and theorists gather to discuss radio art, field recording, noise, real-time work, voice and site-specific sound. This issue includes Zeynep...
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  • The Self-Made Model: Success Without Agencies by Gabriel, Christie
    Christie Gabriel

    The Self-Made Model: Success Without Agencies

    "The whole world of modeling is open to you in a way it never has been before," says veteran fashion model Christie Gabriel at the beginning of this book. "But to succeed, you need knowledge it takes years in the industry to gain." Gabriel...
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  • Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep by Huber, Sandra
    Sandra Huber

    Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep

    Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber's first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the...
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  • Unbecoming Nationalism: From Commemoration to Redress in Canada by Vosters, Helene
    Helene Vosters

    Unbecoming Nationalism: From Commemoration to Redress in Canada

    Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using "unbecoming" as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene...
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  • Doc/Undoc: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática by Gómez-Peña, Guillermo
    Guillermo Gez-Pe

    Doc/Undoc: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Sham疣ica Perform疸ica

    What does it mean to be documented or undocumented? How do these terms work across borders and boundaries, languages and nations? These are the questions fueling the experimental artwork-in-a-box, Documentado/Undocumented, a book art piece that explores the intersection of printmaking, typography, performance, video, sound...
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  • Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas by Murphy, Kaitlin M.
    Kaitlin M. Murphy

    Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas

    In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern...
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  • Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York by Yoshimoto, Midori
    Midori Yoshimoto

    Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York

    The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is...
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  • Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages by Cramer, Michael a.
    Michael a. Cramer

    Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages

    This book examines the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). It describes the group's activities and investigates its place in popular culture, looking at the SCA not so much as a historical society but as...
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  • Ernest Haycox and the Western by Etulain, Richard W.
    Richard W. Etulain

    Ernest Haycox and the Western

    Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In...
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  • Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Shusterman, Richard
    Richard Shusterman

    Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art

    Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger...
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  • Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers by Boone, Kurt
    Kurt Boone

    Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers

    Immerse yourself in the raw energy and enthusiasm of New York City subway buskers in this shining photo showcase. From makeshift stages in Times Square where MTA music banners are hung to subway station platforms and cars throughout the city, these performers collectively express...
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  • Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition by Rugoff, Ralph
    Kristine Stiles

    Paul McCarthy

    Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artistLos-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of...
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  • Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance by Lepecki, Andre
    Andre Lepecki

    Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

    How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of...
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  • Performing Arts Center Management by Lambert, Patricia
    Patricia Dewey Lambert

    Performing Arts Center Management

    Performing arts centers (PACs) are an integral part of the cultural and creative industries, significantly influencing the cultural, social, and economic vitality of communities around the world. Virtually all PACs are community-based and serve the public interest, whether structured as a public, nonprofit, for-profit,...
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  • Book of Sides: Original, One-Page Scenes for Actors and Directors: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors by Kost, Dave
    Dave Kost

    Book of Sides: Original, One-Page Scenes for Actors and Directors: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors

    Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class? Tired of the same old material everyone recognizes? Want the flexibility to play any character in any scene? Book of Sides: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors offers scenes that are...
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  • Play with Purpose: Lessac Kinesensics in Action by Munro, Marth
    Marth Munro

    Play with Purpose: Lessac Kinesensics in Action

    An apt description of this book appears on the back cover of the book. This descrition was written by Professor Mari -Heleen Coetzee (DTech) and we quote: "Arthur Lessac's passing in 2011 has not only left the Lessac community grieving for a remarkable man,...
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  • Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972 by Bennahum, Ninotchka
    Ninotchka Bennahum

    Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972

    In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti's conceptually...
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  • Ballet and Modern Dance by Au, Susan
    Susan Au

    Ballet and Modern Dance

    Dance's extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the contemporary...
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  • Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress by Son, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Son

    Embodied Reckonings: "Comfort Women," Performance, and Transpacific Redress

    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 Korean--in the years before and during World War II. Long...
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  • Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance by Hunter, Victoria
    Victoria Hunter

    Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance

    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 practitioners with a series of discussions that shed...
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  • Unmarked: The Politics of Performance by Phelan, Peggy
    Peggy Phelan

    Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

    Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film,...
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  • Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance Since the 1960s by Rosenthal, Stephanie
    Stephanie Rosenthal

    Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance Since the 1960s

    How visual art has been enriched by dance, and dance has been shaped by art, in unprecedented and exciting ways for the past fifty years.Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published in...
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  • Becoming Audible by McQuinn, Austin
    Austin McQuinn

    Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance

    Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.To frame his...
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