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(Syn)aesthetics
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 29.00A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. more...
Acoustic Interculturalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing ? an awareness of how sound shapes the intercultural experience. more...
Anatomy Live
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 40.00Anatomy Live demonstrates how the implications of the history of anatomical theatre can be seen at work in the appearance of dancing and acting bodies on stage. more...
Dubious Spectacle
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 72.00Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau?his directing, writing, and criticism?has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. more...
The Future of Ritual
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 45.95In The Future of Ritual , Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural... more...
Performance Theory
Routledge 2003; US$ 22.95This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies. more...
Performance and the Politics of Space
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical... more...
Philosophers and Thespians
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 22.95This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. more...
Presence in Play
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 67.20Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The live immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of dramatic action and the energy generated... more...
Theatre and Everyday Life
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 49.95Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather... more...









