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The Senses in Performance
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the... more...
A Pathognomy of Performance
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life. more...
Identity, Performance and Technology
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 111.00This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice. 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...
A Performance Cosmology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.00Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics. Contributors include: Philip Auslander,... 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...
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...
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...
Performance and Place
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 41.00Written by both practitioners and scholars, this significant and timely collection explores the sites of contemporary performance, and the notion of place. The volume examines how we experience performance's varied sites as part of the fabric of the art work itself, whether they are institutional or transient, real or online. more...









