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HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THE REAL WORLD OF ACTING AND PERFORMING ARTS This evidence-informed roadmap shows you how t......more

What can Maurice Blanchot-renowned for his reflections on death and literature-teach us about creativity? According to A......more

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in this volume to explore the profound relationship betw......more

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to ’gesture’ that considers the term’......more

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

Examines Raf Simons’s groundbreaking impact on menswear, showing how his designs challenge gender norms and use fashion ......more

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Key performances and new works from the Cuban activist and artist famed for her courageous defiance of governmental oppr......more

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Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it’s a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. R......more

Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson takes the reader through her most important work of the last five decades, revealing h......more

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986 and ......more

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986 and ......more

Diagrammatical Performances’ traces some of the traditions and contemporary developments in the uses of diagrams - actua......more

Investigating the critical relationship between recovery, fatigue, working conditions, and societal pressures in the per......more

Investigating the critical relationship between recovery, fatigue, working conditions, and societal pressures in the per......more

The book covers the history of Singapore National songs, starting with the search for folk songs that could be considere......more

This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the US and México to expose the dire realities......more

Discover the poetics of salt, where art, memory, and migration transform our understanding of this everyday substance. W......more

Since it first mesmerised Western audiences in the early twentieth century, Balinese masked dance-drama (Topeng) has dra......more

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This book is about the history of Singapore choirs starting from the early 20th century right up to the present day. It ......more

Iconic rockstar and performance artist Kembra Pfahler’s life in pictures. Original New York City icon Pfahler has terror......more

Gina Pane (1939-1990) is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through......more

A transdisciplinary exploration of English punctuation’s power and limits, this book invites readers and performers to r......more

Challenging the myths, silences, and stereotypes of motherhood through the live body in performance. Matrescence and Per......more

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art Performance is often seen as ephemeral, a......more

This book traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970......more

This book considers the notion of ’historical escapism’ through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one in......more

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A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art hi......more

A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art hi......more

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance arti......more

New monograph exploring artist Harold Offeh’s dynamic practice since the early 2000’s, with essays and a new photographi......more

ARTHEMIST Lighthouse 48 documents a year of performance actions by Norwegian artist Bj rn Ven . Across 54 filmed gesture......more

A deep dive into the career, creativity, and influence of Charli XCX, exploring her groundbreaking music and cultural im......more

Recent performances from the recipient of the 2020 Venice Dance Biennale Golden Lion Award This volume gathers documenta......more

Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. ......more

Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. ......more

Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from ......more

Useful Art explores how art can be a tool for activism and resistance against neoliberalism. Highlighting projects from ......more

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern wr......more

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary ana......more

Maclean expands her oeuvre of surreal narratives through a deepfake film starring Sean Connery and Marilyn Monroe The mu......more

How are contemporary artists responding to the climate crisis? Filipa Ramos takes an original approach to the subject by......more

Reimagining theatre as a living, breathing collaboration between professional artists and the communities they serve. Jo......more

This book offers readers worldwide the first edition of Juan Isidro Fajardo’s Índice de todas las comedias impresas hast......more

A novel approach to performance art and its history that revisits Viennese Actionism, one of the most controversial epis......more

Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium--now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire. Pyot......more

Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium--now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire. Pyot......more

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre......more

In this groundbreaking book, Mahdi Ahouie explores how the cultural ideal of honor (ezzat) has come to dominate Iranian ......more

This first-hand account offers the story of Boris Nieslony and how he is remembered within the context of performance ar......more

Dive into the world of Kendrick Lamar, and celebrate the artist’s rise from Compton rapper to hip-hop royalty. This book......more

This book unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when th......more

How technology and the attention economy shape contemporary art and performance The reception of art and performance is ......more

A two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’......more

This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama. Engaging with Si......more

Ballet dancers answer a calling that demands they become what they must become, a calling as clear, simple, and inevitab......more

This book explores the acoustic agency of brass as a vital medium through which histories of extraction, resistance, and......more

A comprehensive exploration of performance art’s journey into the museum space. This insightful study charts the inclusi......more

The standard reference since its first publication in 1979, Performance Art continues its authoritative chronicling of o......more

These eurythmy forms and indications (CW A 23/2), published here for the first time in English, were given by Rudolf Ste......more

Welcome to the wonderful world of PYA! I coined the term PYA, which stands for Performing for Young Audiences. I based t......more

On renowned night-club performer and Allied spy Joséphine Baker’s movements during the Second World War, told through es......more

Deborah Kapchan’s Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritua......more

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic intervention......more

Read Wittmer’s artist’s book front to back, then back to front, and witness the changing narratives of her performance p......more

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long......more