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Critical Theory and Performance
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
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?
An Investigation into the political efficacy of Pussy Riot’s art.
Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage
Collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre.
So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
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
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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).
Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance
Collection of essays.
Performance Matters Archive
Boxset contains 40 DVDS documenting public events with contextualising texts. Shelved in Oversize section.
How to Become an Action Hero
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
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.
