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Editor: Fiona Campbell and Lauren A Wright | Reference: P3104 | ISBN: 978-0-992797423 | Type: Publication

Catalogue of the eponymous programme of events; Barbican, 20-28 January 2017. Includes archival images from the Warburg Institute and other sources that have provided inspiration to the artists during the making process, an introduction to the work by Siobhan Davies, a conversation between the Warburg Institute and Siobhan Davies Dance, and texts by artists and curators involved.

Aby Warburg Albrecht Dürer Andrea Buckley Anil Seth body Charlie Morrissey choreography communication dance design Efrosini Protopapa Emma Smith gesture Glithero Guido Orgs Guy Claxton Helka Kaski installation Jeremy Millar Jonathan Cole Matthias Sperling mind movement multidisciplinary neuroscience past performance science Scott deLahunta Tramway visual art

After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance
Artist/Author: Daniel Sack | Reference: P3081 | ISBN: 978-0472052868 | Type: Publication

The book conceives of traditional dramatic theater as a place for taming the future and then conceptualizes how performance beyond this paradigm might stage the unruly nature of futurity.

Antonin Artaud Aristotle audience beholder Caryl Churchill chaos dance devised theatre disappearance Edward Gordon Craig gesture Henri Bergson literalism Michael Fried performative writing redemption Romeo Castellucci Samuel Beckett Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio stillness Will Eno Witold Gombrowicz

Theatre and History
Artist/Author: Rebecca Schneider | Reference: P3017 | ISBN: 978-0230246614 | Type: Publication

This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.

acting Africa antitheatricality archive authenticity colonized colonizer dance dead diaspora directing director embodiment emotion Erika Fischer-Lichte evidence forgetting gender gesture Greek tragedy imitation liveness medieval theatre memory mimesis naturalism orator R. G. Collingwood recording reenactment repetition spectatorship temporality the deadness time vision William Shakespeare

Theatre and Mind
Artist/Author: Professor Bruce McConachie | Reference: P3008 | ISBN: 978-0230275836

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

acting affects Angels in America attention character embodiment emotion empathy evolution gesture imagination Konstantin Stanislavski meaning memory movement neuroscience Paul Ekman performance psychology spectatorship sympathy

Gary Chitty, Bruce McLean and Paul Richards in conversation with Jon Wood
Artist/Author: Jon Wood | Reference: A0659 | Type: Article

Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Final Pose Piece gesture glam rock High up on a baroque palazzo interview Maidstone College of Art music Nice Style performance art posing Robin Fletcher Ron Carr sculpture visual art

Case of Emergency: Emergent Writings on Live Art and Performance
Editor: David Frankovich, et al. | Reference: P2774 | ISBN: 978-952-6670-55-3 | Type: Publication

*currently unavailable*

A catalogue of new writing on performance including essays and dialogues around emergency.

action art community gesture live art performance photography trauma writing

Joan Jonas: Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room
Artist/Author: Joan Jonas | Reference: P2376 | ISBN: 978-848977144-4 | Type: Publication

Publication on Joan Jonas’ experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies

conceptual art gesture perception performance ritual space time video

Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Andre Lepecki, Jenn Joy | Reference: P2089 | Type: Publication

Engages critical dance studies, philosophy, performance studies, cultural and post-colonial studies to propose new and creative dialogues between these disciplines.

Akram Khan Andre Lepecki Anurima Banerji attention body Boris Charmatz Chandralekha choreography Christine Greiner compositions contemporaneity dance Danielle Goldman Deborah Hay embodied endurance Erin Manning ethics Frédéric Pouillaude Gerald gesture Hong Kong Dance Company Hooman Sharifi Jenn Joy Jeroen Peters Jose Gil kinetic movement moving Myriam Van Imschoot Noemie Solomon Paula Caspao performance Peter Sloterdijk philosophy political postcolonialism postmodernity race Ralph Lemon resistance Robin Rhode Roseanne Spradlin Royona Mitra SanSan Kwan Siegmund space spasm theoretical theory

Show images booklets
Artist/Author: Raimund Hoghe | Reference: P1914 | Type: Publication

6 booklets of photographs from Raimund Hoghe performances. Accompanying DVDs also available ref: D1864

body choreography concept dance Emmanuel Eggermont gesture Lorenzo de Brabandere minimal mirrored gestures movement music paired down actions physicality repeated ritual Rosa Frank subtle gestures takashi Ueno

A piece for Faustin Linyekula, Sacre - The Rite of Sprong and L’Apres-midi
Artist/Author: Raimund Hoghe | Reference: D1864 | Type: DVD

3 DVDs of Raimund Hoghe performances. Accompanying photo books also available ref: P1914

body choreography concept dance Emmanuel Eggermont gesture Lorenzo de Brabandere minimal mirrored gestures movement music paired down actions physicality repeated ritual subtle gestures

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