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Performance Theory
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies. more...
Community Performance: An Introduction
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 36.95Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering a toolkit... more...
The Transformative Power of Performance
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 31.95In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes ? blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art... more...
Making a Performance
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 35.95Making a Performance traces innovations in devised performance from early theatrical experiments in the twentieth-century to the radical performances of the twenty-first century. This introduction to the theory, history and practice of devised performance explores how performance-makers have built on the experimental aesthetic traditions of the... more...
Musical Performance
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 27.00From performance history to the essentials of practice and memorisation, from performance anxiety to the art of listening and criticism, this accessible guide for students, teachers and performers at all levels unravels the complexities of musical performance, focusing on key aspects of learning, playing and responding to music. more...
Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 88.00Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV. more...
Performance
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 59.95Performance gives essential advice to students of all ages taking practical examinations in speech, drama and theatre arts. more...
New Visions in Performance: The Impact of Digital Technologies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 138.00New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance. more...
The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that the senses function in relation to cognitive science... more...
Performative Body Spaces
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 73.00The human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public spaces, transgresses race and gender, and finally becomes a medium that overcomes the borders of art and life. Since there cannot be a universal definition... more...









