On Forced Entertainment, prediction, and the community of audience.
Includes: Theatre / Archaeology, The script’s not the thing, Welsh Heterotopias, and an interview with Geraldine Cousin
A compilation of research, tracing the development of the artists' sculptural performance Gravitational Feel, which was yet to be realized at the time the book was due to print.
The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
What do we understand by collaborative artistic practices in Spain? After three years of research, this publication bears witness to the diversity of points of view and opinions by Spanish artists and key agents working in this field.
The aim in bringing these voices together in a single publication is that they will add to the already existing discussion in English and will influence future theoretical discourses more broadly.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, interrogating how re-‘creation’ impacts the creative process.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project, setting and testing ways of getting together to show unfinished work.
Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.
The dancers develop movements in response to a photo – creating in real time.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Derived from exercises contributed to workshops by performers with The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes. First published published 1976.
Stages a beyond-disciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing, for exploring those forms of thinking-feeling-knowing produced through collaborative exchange, in the slippage and deviation as different modes of practice enter into dialogue, overlap, collide.
Profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The first in-depth sourcebook in English on the compant, providing first-hand accounts of the development of its collectivist practices and ideals.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Documents and examines the two year collaborative project with over 200 participants from Tower Hamlets, which culminated in the creation of Speak As You Find, an intergenerational site-specific performance created in Autumn 2015.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)
Includes Rick Moody’s extensive interview with Odyssey Works team members as well as six practical proposals that present a radically new unified theory of art making addressing immersivity and interactivity, experience design, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as it relates to documenting artwork, and intimacy and empathy with the audience.
A new translation of Hoghe’s original rehearsal diary that documented the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal’s work on Bandoneon (1980), illustrated with photos of the production by Ulli Weiss, and personal images and notes from the dancers.
Translated from the German by Penny Black.
*currently unavailable*
A ready-made kit containing all the elements needed to develop a lecture-based performance exploring the relationship between socially engaged practice and theatre. Artists featured: Dylan Tighe, theatremaker and performer; Brokentalkers (also known as Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan), Louise Lowe of ANU Productions and Helene Hugel, Artistic Director of Helium, as well as international examples such as Rimini Protokoll, Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine, [email protected], Marina Abramovic, The Red Room and many more. On over-sized shelf. Contains DVD. Inspired by ‘The Performance Pack’ by Joshua Sofaer ref number: P0533
A book about devising, structured as a series of themed chapters intercut with case studies of key elements of the creative process.
Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company.
Journal of Writing in creative Practice Volume 2 Number 1
Find article in misc. folder 2
A survey written in 2002 by Luk Van den Dries, who on a daily basis followed Troubleyn/Jan Fabre’s working process during the creation of the theatre piece ‘Parrots and Guinea Pigs’.
Offers insight into the different kinds of processes that practitioners in the performing arts undertake in their creative work and considers the implications these processes have in the wider world.
An interactive essay-come-archive that circles around the work and working process of the company.
This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433) and the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)
This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964), the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433) and the Study Room Guide: you may perform a spell against madness by Lone Twin (P0755)
Introduces the reader to Bobby Baker’s latest piece, which was commissioned by the London International Festival of Theatre in 1993.
From the British Live Art: Essays and Documentation issue.