The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
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- English
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The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
About this book
The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
This carefully revised third edition offers focus on contributions from the world of music, and also privileges the voices of practitioners themselves ahead of more theoretical writing. A bestseller since its original publication in 1996, this new edition has been expanded to include contributions from:
Bobby Baker; Joseph Beuys; Rustom Bharucha; Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; Hanns Eisler; Karen Finley; Philip Glass; Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Matthew Goulish; Martha Graham; Wassily Kandinsky; Jacques Lecoq; Hans-Thies Lehmann; George Maciunas; Ariane Mnouchkine; Meredith Monk; Lloyd Newson; Carolee Schneemann; Gertrude Stein; Bill Viola.
Each extract is fully supplemented by a contextual summary, a biography of the writer, and suggestions for further reading. The volume's alphabetical structure invites the reader to compare and cross-reference major writings on all types of performance outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre, encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings.
All who engage with live, innovative performance, and the interplay of radical ideas, will find this collection invaluable.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- How to Use This Book
- INTRODUCTION: A CANON OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERFORMANCE
- 1 INTERVIEW
- 2 THE SPEED OF CHANGE
- 3 ACTOR, SPACE, LIGHT, PAINTING
- 4 THEATRE AND CRUELTY
- 5 DIARY ENTRIES
- 6 WORDS OR PRESENCE
- 7 NOT HOW PEOPLE MOVE BUT WHAT MOVES THEM
- 8 ACTING EXERCISES
- 9 WHAT IS EPIC THEATER?
- 10 SPEECH UPON RECEIVING AN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, HALIFAX 1976
- 11 NOTES ON THE INVENTION OF TRADITION
- 12 THE THEATER AS DISCOURSE
- 13 SHORT DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TECHNIQUE OF ACTING WHICH PRODUCES AN ALIENATION EFFECT
- 14 THE DEADLY THEATRE
- 15 TRISHA BROWN: AN INTERVIEW
- 16 FOUR STATEMENTS ON THE DANCE
- 17 CURRENT TRENDS/THE DIRECTOR AS PARTLY ACTOR
- 18 THE ACTOR AND THE ÜBER-MARIONETTE
- 19 YOU HAVE TO LOVE DANCING TO STICK TO IT
- 20 INTERVIEW
- 21 THE DANCER OF THE FUTURE
- 22 SOME REMARKS ON THE SITUATION OF THE MODERN COMPOSER
- 23 ON PERFORMANCE WRITING
- 24 HELLO MOTHER/IT’S MY BODY
- 25 HOW TO WRITE A PLAY
- 26 NOTES ON EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
- 27 PERFORMANCE ART FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT
- 28 THE ART OF CAMOUFLAGE
- 29 THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
- 30 GRAHAM 1937
- 31 STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
- 32 MAN, ONCE DEAD, CRAWL BACK!
- 33 OF THE FUTILITY OF THE ‘THEATRICAL’ IN THEATER
- 34 ON STAGE COMPOSITION
- 35 THE THEATRE OF DEATH: A MANIFESTO
- 36 ASSEMBLAGES, ENVIRONMENTS AND HAPPENINGS
- 37 INTERVIEW
- 38 THE THEATRE OF GESTURE AND IMAGE
- 39 PROLOGUE TO POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE
- 40 ROBERT LEPAGE IN DISCUSSION
- 41 EXPANDED FLUXUS DIAGRAM
- 42 THE FOUNDING AND MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM
- 43 FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE
- 44 BUILDING UP THE MUSCLE OF THE IMAGINATION
- 45 PROCESS NOTES ON ATLAS, 1989
- 46 19 ANSWERS BY HEINER MÜLLER
- 47 CONVERSATION WITH JO BUTTERWORTH
- 48 EPIC SATIRE
- 49 A QUASI SURVEY OF SOME ‘MINIMALIST’ TENDENCIES IN THE QUANTITATIVELY MINIMAL DANCE ACTIVITY MIDST THE PLETHORA, OR AN ANALYSIS OF TRIO A
- 50 HOW DID DADA BEGIN?
- 51 THE FIVE AVANT-GARDES OR … OR NONE?
- 52 MAN AND ART FIGURE
- 53 MEAT JOY
- 54 THEATRE IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL CULTURES: SURVIVAL PATTERNS
- 55 INTONATIONS AND PAUSES
- 56 COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION
- 57 INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS ZURBRUGG
- 58 THE VISIONARY LANDSCAPE OF PERCEPTION
- 59 INTERVIEW
- A Chronology of Texts
- Index
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