Art - Performance

A whimsically illustrated book containing performative poems to be read aloudA tanrenga poem is a conversation between a three-line haikulike poem and a two-line poem written by another writer in response. British artist-curator Gavin Wade (born 1971) and poet-musician Paul Conneally (born 1959) offer...

Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of Soloist. A New York season with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA and four years as Principal Dancer of The Joffrey Ballet followed, where she...

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. It covers a range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde...

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the...

An insightful look at work by a pioneer of video and computer art, who explores the relationships between the body, movement, dance, visual, and audiovisual art. Since the early 1970s, the Brazilian artist, dancer, and choreographer Anal?ia Cordeiro has explored the relationships between the...

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 interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to theatre theory and practice...

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.Addressing cultural forms from 1960s-70s sociology, performance art, and...

Just open the box and start some art! Let nothing get in your way... Making art doesn't have to be about technically brilliant painting, sculpting and drawing, or complicated equipment. This is a card deck and booklet of 40 super-simple art activities, each inspired...

Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, community dance, or dance...

A selection of Burden's self-published magazines brought back to print, collected together in a magnum opus of artist's booksFrom his action-based performances of the 1970s to the technical feats of his later monumental sculptures, American visual artist Chris Burden (1946-2015) consistently challenged material, physical...

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance...

How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance. As US news covered anticolonialist resistance abroad and urban rebellions at home, and as politicians mobilized the perceived threat of...

British kinetic artist Stephen Cripps (1952-82) built machines and interactive installations and staged radical pyrotechnical performances. Published for an exhibition at Museum Tinguely, Performing Machines surveys his work.Author: Stephen CrippsISBN-10: 3903131911ISBN-13: 9783903131910Publisher: Verlag Fur Moderne KunstLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w...

What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy.Author: R....

THROUGH THE RUINS: TALKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AN THE ARTS 1 is the inaugural volume in a series of publications dedicated to exploring creative tools of resistance. THROUGH THE RUINS is based on public talks presented at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and...

Surveying the written work of a pioneering Austrian avant-garde artistAustrian avant-garde artist Valie Export (born 1940) is regarded internationally as one of the most important pioneers of conceptual media art, performance and experimental film. This volume showcases her published and unpublished texts, interviews and...

Aquatopia 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 Harmattan's site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider climate change...

Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production.Art and Expression　examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production, aesthetic reception, understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomenological theoretical and...

The oral autobiography of the controversial Vienna Aktionist, with archival materials and additional writings by NitschA pioneer of Vienna's postwar avant-garde and the most notorious member of the Vienna Aktionist group, Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) united performance, painting and musical composition in dramatic, often blood-soaked...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book...

Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of Soloist. A New York season with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA and four years as Principal Dancer of The Joffrey Ballet followed, where she...

Public speaking becomes possible for all of us when we learn how to control and use our stage fright. The audiences that we face in our business and social lives become less formidable when we understand what they want and need from us. A...

This is the first collection of plays by award-winning playwright Oladipo Agboluaje, a significant force in Black British drama. Described as an 'exciting, vital new voice' (Time Out), Agboluaje demonstrates his versatility to write plays that transcend African and British cultures. Early Morning is...

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel's coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first, "Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely" (1960), and the most scandalous, "120 Minutes dedicated to...

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

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 armed struggles from Kenya and Tanzania to...

Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of Bells The third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The...

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the...

Musicians and artists from Adam Bohman, Chris Cutler and Haco to Felix Kubin and Otomo Yoshihide have explored the creative potential of the radio This anthology explores the themes, concepts and techniques of artist-made radio across more than 20 years. Interspersed with micro-essays on...

Charlotte Moorman was a bold, barrier-breaking musician and performance artist and a tireless champion of experimental art, whose avant-garde festivals in New York City brought new art forms to a broad public. To date, recognition of Moorman has been limited mostly to her collaborations...

What in the world would I need a lot of money for? Bridget and her mother, Aisling, had no idea what they were getting themselves into the day they met Molly and her mom on the front porch. Join their curious journey from Beginner...

A long overdue retrospective on one of the most prominent experimental artists from former YugoslaviaHungarian poet and performance artist Katalin Ladik (born 1942) was an important female figure in the male-dominated literary and avant-garde art scenes of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1960s...

What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy.Author: R....

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas-from Canada to the Southern Cone.Author: Stuart Alexander DayISBN-10: 1032073624ISBN-13: 9781032073620Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d

Surveying the four decades-long career of a Czech artist working in video and action artThis is the first comprehensive survey on the 40-year career of Czech artist Tom疽 Ruller (born 1957), known for his action art and video art. Alongside extensive photographic documentation of...

A Woman's Right To Pleasure by BlackBook x LELO is a distinctive collection of over 200 works and original texts from over 60 of the world's most important and well-recognized female-identifying artists, writers and creative thinkers from around the globe. "If we could truly...

In late August 1951, the strange phenomenon known as The Lubbock Lights leads to days of UFO sightings from Texas northward through to Canada. An infant appearing in a Chicago hospital is swiftly adopted and whisked away to New York as quickly as health...

Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple's Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces performance art, multimedia theater, audio arts, and dance in the United States from 1983...

Plays created by children from Kindergarten to 5th. grade. The process involved coming up with ideas, choosing the characters, and creating some basic dialogues.Author: Maru GarciaISBN-10: 1541346769ISBN-13: 9781541346765Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2016Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall...

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores...

How black women have personified art, expression, identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre...

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a sharp reevaluation of...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book...

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting is the ideal collection for students and scholars of aesthetics, theatre studies and the philosophy of art. Ever since the Greeks, philosophy and theatre have always enjoyed a close and often antagonistic relationship. Yet until recently relatively...

An intimate history of the lost art of the psychedelic light showThe latest volume in Four Corners' Irregulars series on forgotten and fascinating subcultures of British visual history, Wheels of Light charts the history of light-show art in Britain from the 1970s on. Emerging...

This pioneering book has now been expanded with a new chapter that brings it into the second decade of the twenty-first century, mapping the global rise of performance to the present day. RoseLee Goldberg explores contemporary artists' approaches to politics, tradition, social engagement, and...

Eclectic installation works drawing on a foundation of performative and drag aestheticsArgentinian performance and installation artist Mercedes Azpilicueta (born 1981) explores the expressive possibilities of theatrical and sculptural forms. Her multilayered practice gathers characters from the past and present to address the collective body...

The Makeshift Body is the first monograph to document the work of contemporary artist Mandy El-Sayegh, whose process-driven practice is rooted in an exploration of material and language.Executed in a wide range of media, including densely layered painting, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance,...

A comprehensive monograph on the Argentinian pioneer of happenings, soft sculpture and video artThis handsome volume is published on the occasion of the Jewish Museum's retrospective of the Argentinian artist Marta Minuj? (born 1943). Celebrated for her performance art, happenings and large-scale public works,...