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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world’s most famous performance artist. Combining bra......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
This book strikes at the heart of musical performance with a study of the relationship between music and rhetoric which ......more
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in way......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 guide......more
How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering......more
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
Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an ar......more
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Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of S......more
From themed entertainment to business and beyond, anyone involved in leading creative teams will benefit from Kile’s ext......more
From a critically acclaimed, Pushcart Prize-nominated performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking m......more
Diversity and Performance Study" authored by Baswant Raj delves into the intricate relationship between workforce divers......more
This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemp......more
Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of S......more
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection betw......more
How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection betw......more
This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sec......more
This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sec......more
This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have ch......more
Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles De......more
This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings......more
This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings......more
This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, liter......more
Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts th......more
This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora......more
Eriata knows how to knit words with well-tailored lines that capture one’s mind. On a canvas of words, he is the acrylic......more
At the very least, this book is full to the brim with fun and entertainment: -The antics of the house dog, Winston. -The......more
Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse thro......more
The Smith & Wisznia collection’s singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katr......more
Who will you be? The great Antony? Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen? The power-hungry, Caesar!? Antony and Cleopatra like......more
Volume eight of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. The Father, The Dance of Death, Three Sisters and Stanley’s Women......more
Volume nine of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and After Birthday. A Doll’s ......more
Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifest......more
A Los Angeles drama critic called REGARDING MRS. CARTER a "Hamlet for women." That is certainly hyperbole, but this thea......more
"Using black feminist methodology, this book rethinks disability in African diasporic performance by insisting that diff......more
Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic perfor......more
Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Ass......more
Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Ass......more
This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli the......more
Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian pers......more
Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and med......more
Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023 "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political res......more
This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating ......more
This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating ......more
This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists ......more
This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of ......more
Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look......more
Habits of creation: a thematic overview of Kentridge’s multimedia art The South African artist William Kentridge is inte......more
In this richly illustrated and information-packed celebration of Broadway set design, Tony Award-winning designer Derek ......more
Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater’s ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes,......more
This scrapbook is a comprehensive record of the making of Linda Karshan’s historical walked drawing masterpiece, Two Fee......more
Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica......more
A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality pe......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
If you wandered the streets of Oakland or Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through 2013, you likely saw one of Fr......more
"A Trip To Mackin’ Island" by Das Bruce was the second book written. Through a course of mishaps, the book and a collect......more
This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Gr......more
This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Gr......more
Dive into this "introspectacle" and weird world of the Curious! This anthology of eight plays offers readers irreverent ......more
How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial......more
How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial......more
Volume four of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Franz Into April, Pasionaria, Aunt Mary and Up In Sweden. Franz In......more
Actors! Have you been considering the enticing move to LA? Well, this is the book for you! Join award-winning actress Kr......more
Chaos, crisis, and change are recurring themes in life. You might fear the chaos, operate in constant crisis, or resist ......more
Chaos, crisis, and change are recurring themes in life. You might fear the chaos, operate in constant crisis, or resist ......more
Volume six of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Deborah’s Daughter, Finchie’s War, At The Window and Stella Campbel......more
Volume seven of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. The Odd Women, The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill, ......more
Collectively written with indigenous artists and activists, this book engages with subversive representations of the (po......more
Considers Guédiguian’s career, both as a filmmaker and producer, as a valid response to a crisis in post-Communist Lefti......more
Weitkamp and Almeida enter into the space where museums, universities and research centres operate, as well as the space......more
A leading figure of the 1970s and 80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong has channeled time and langu......more