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Critical Theory and Performance

Editor: Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph R. Roach | Reference: P3952 | ISBN: 978472064588 | Type: Publication

Presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres.  Revised and Enlarged Edition

How We Talk About The Work Is The Work Performing critical writing

Artist/Author: Theron Schmidt | Reference: A0835 | Type: Article

This article gives examples of a number of initiatives by individual writers, artist collectives, and festivals that test forms of critical writing that are as experimental as the practices to which they relate.

Girls Make Noise or Girls Make a Difference?

Artist/Author: Irina Talanova | Reference: P3233 | ISBN: 978-3659930904 | Type: Publication

An Investigation into the political efficacy of Pussy Riot’s art.

So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Performance Research A Journal of the Performing Arts: On Time

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P2577 | ISBN: 1352-8165 | Type: Article

*currently unavailable*

Special issue on time. The essays and artist pages assembled here are re-articulations of work presented at PSI 19: Performance and Temporality (25-30 June 2013).

How to Become an Action Hero

Artist/Author: Elizabeth Streb | Reference: P1923 | ISBN: 978-1-55861656-1 | Type: Publication

Elizabeth Streb combines memoir and analysis to convey how she became an extreme action dancer/choreographer. This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249).

Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory

Editor: Andre Lepecki | Reference: P1738 | ISBN: 0-8195-6612-8 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance-in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse.