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Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook

Artist/Author: Alison Oddey | Reference: P1743 | ISBN: 978-0-415-04900-9 | Type: Publication

A practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions of selected companies, and suggestions for any group devising theatre from scratch.

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.

Interview with Shannon Jackson

Artist/Author: Christina Linden, Shannon Jackson | Reference: A0427 | Type: Article

Interview with Shannon Jackson, Christina Linden, Social Works: online article printed from www.artpractical.com

Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics

Artist/Author: Shannon Jackson | Reference: P1585 | Type: Publication

An interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art.

This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

Artist/Author: Shannon Jackson | Editor: Tracy C. Davis | Reference: P1539 | ISBN: 9780521656054 | Type: Publication

Considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education. This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C J W L Wee | Reference: P1484 | ISBN: 978-0-230-00845-8 | Type: Publication

A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.

After Criticism - New Responses to Art and Performance (Chinese Language version)

Artist/Author: Gavin Butt | Reference: P1427 | ISBN: 9787534422409 | Type: Publication

Chinese edition of Butt’s book addressing issues of the ‘performing’ of art’s histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other ‘queer’ forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Language: Chinese only

The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies edited by Tracy C Davis (review)

Artist/Author: Alan Read | Reference: A0276 | Type: Article

Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 19, Issue 3 (2009), pp. 375-377

PSI 15 Zagreb - Misperformance

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P1304 | Type: Publication

Print to accompany Performance Studies International Conference 15 Zagreb 24-28.06.09.

A Performance Cosmology - Testimony for the Future, Evidence of the Past

Editor: Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt | Reference: P0837 | ISBN: 978-0-415-37258-9 | Type: Publication

Explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics.

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)

After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance

Editor: Gavin Butt | Reference: P0671 | ISBN: 0-631-23284-2 | Type: Publication

Explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism’s energies in the wake of a ‘theatrical turn’ in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a ‘performative’ arts writing over the past decade or so.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide: On Falling by Amy Sharrocks (P2249) and the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433)

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