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On Innovative Performance(s): Three Decades of Recollections on Alternative Theater
A collection of essays from the leading avant-garde critic of the era focuses on individual performances and performers, providing a unique critical record of their work and of the movement.
Acting Out: Feminist Performances
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance
The author’s concerns – which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power – take the reader from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theatre of Kleist to Kantor’s theatre of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.
If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Her Eyes Under the Bridge documentation
Documentation from the DIY 14 project, exploring how personal documents and performance can animate each other within a specific context of travelling and migration.
Echo the Now
A cinematic interpretation of the performances of Anet van de Elzen.
65 mins.
Emergency INDEX Vol 6
In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today.
Ally
Captures a series of remarkable collaborative art works instigated by visual artist Janine Antoni, in alliance with preeminent dance-maker and community activist Anna Halprin and pioneer choreographer Stephen Petronio.
an idea of performance a idea of art: By John Court
Contains Courts drawings, notes, sketches and ideas for performance from his notebooks over a period of five years.
Polvo (Octopus)
Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.
