On renowned night-club performer and Allied spy Joséphine Baker’s movements during the Second World War, told through es......more
COVID VORTEX ANXIETY OPERA KITTY KALEIDOSCOPE DISCO meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre ......more
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An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black viole......more
This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars tha......more
This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars tha......more
The body painting, photography and performance work of German artists (born 1939) Vera Lendorff (also known as the famed......more
Considers the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths t......more
Considers the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths t......more
A collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic is ar......more
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A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the mos......more
Recent performances from the recipient of the 2020 Venice Dance Biennale Golden Lion Award This volume gathers documenta......more
This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 19......more
Research and practice that challenges dominant narratives around motherhood. Performing Maternities is a collection of e......more
How archives perform and live performance is archived. Emerging from the first retrospective exhibition of Canadian perf......more
A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys--from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of V......more
An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication. Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to lo......more
On Adrian Piper’s radical pedagogy of transgression and the importance of soul and funk music in the African American st......more
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A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded th......more
A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded th......more
Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears a......more
In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man o......more
Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears a......more
In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man o......more
"Much has been written about the impact of the internet, smartphones, and social media on our attention spans-and most o......more
Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look......more
Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater’s ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes,......more
Isabel Lewis is an artist interested in creating multisensory experiences, collapsing formal boundaries, and centering c......more
A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power struct......more
Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s......more
Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s......more
Octopuses And Other Sea Creatures documents the creation of a live performance in Portsmouth Cathedral in 2022. The perf......more
The first major retrospective of Yoko Ono in a decade foregrounds her impact on activism and invites readers to engage d......more
Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their u......more
Collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education’s institutional goals.......more
A richly illustrated catalog, with biography, of artist Julio González. The sculptures of Julio González (1876-1942) wer......more
A long overdue retrospective on one of the most prominent experimental artists from former Yugoslavia Hungarian poet and......more
Theatre for Lifelong Learning: A Handbook for Instructors is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching thea......more
Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad. Most of these poems bubbled......more
New essays open a variety of philosophies that explore and challenge the relationship between education and performance ......more
An accessible primer for art students or researchers new to phenomenology. This book introduces the study and applicatio......more
Musicians and artists from Adam Bohman, Chris Cutler and Haco to Felix Kubin and Otomo Yoshihide have explored the creat......more
Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of ......more
Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of ......more
A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what......more
BEING WORK is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists that offer access to varied experiences of performing ......more
Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift s......more
Atoui’s recent collective sonic adventures explore the physical transmission of sound and its reception in the human bod......more
"Adair Rounthwaite presents a detailed account of the Group of Six Authors and their circle from 1975 to 1985 as they br......more
"Adair Rounthwaite presents a detailed account of the Group of Six Authors and their circle from 1975 to 1985 as they br......more
Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performanc......more
Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, La......more
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s te......more
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s te......more
Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance of a......more
Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures......more
The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing th......more
The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing th......more
A whimsically illustrated book containing performative poems to be read aloud A tanrenga poem is a conversation between ......more
This book presents a wide range of new audience studies research in the performing arts to provide a diversity of perspe......more
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cr......more
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the founda......more
This book celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’......more
Caroline Bergvall’s celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects--Meddle English (2011), Drift......more
The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world’s most famous performance artist. Combining bra......more
Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitioner For Breaking Protocol, tra......more
This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long......more
First published in 1967 The Theatre of Commitment presents miscellaneous collection of seven essays written over fifteen......more
First published in 1967 The Theatre of Commitment presents miscellaneous collection of seven essays written over fifteen......more
This book strikes at the heart of musical performance with a study of the relationship between music and rhetoric which ......more
This book assesses Stuart Brisley’s seminal influence on British art through his lifelong engagement with the histories ......more
Eclectic installation works drawing on a foundation of performative and drag aesthetics Argentinian performance and inst......more
A career survey of an influential figure in 20th-century Latin American body art Colombian artist María Teresa Hincapié ......more
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in way......more
- An effort to self-heal through connecting with our ancestors and our historical heritage - Focusing on female and tran......more
Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Fo......more
"Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guid......more
Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide......more
How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering......more
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Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four other countries while also establishing and maintainin......more
Just open the box and start some art! Let nothing get in your way... Making art doesn’t have to be about technically bri......more
This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in i......more
Surveying the written work of a pioneering Austrian avant-garde artist Austrian avant-garde artist Valie Export (born 19......more
Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an ar......more
By exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th a......more
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