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  1. The Performance Studies Reader

    The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies,...

    Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge

  2. Performance: A Critical Introduction

    2nd Edition

    By Marvin Carlson

    This comprehensively revised, illustrated edition discusses recent performance work and takes into consideration changes that have taken place since the book's original publication in 1996. Marvin Carlson guides the reader through the contested definition of performance as a theatrical activity and...

    Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge

  3. The Intercultural Performance Handbook

    By John Martin

    The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for practitioners, it provides:*a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics drawn from world performance styles*a new vocabulary with which...

    Published October 1st 2003 by Routledge

  4. Performance Theory

    By Richard Schechner

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was...

    Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge

  5. The Performance Arts in Africa

    A Reader

    By Frances Harding

    The Performance Arts in Africa is the first anthology of key writings on African performance from many parts of the continent. As well as play texts, off the cuff comedy routines and masquerades, this exciting collection encompasses community-based drama, tourist presentations, television soap...

    Published July 10th 2002 by Routledge

  6. Performer Training

    Developments Across Cultures

    Edited by Ian Watson

    Performer Training is an examination of how actors are trained in different cultures. Beginning with studies of mainstream training in countries such as Poland, Australia, Germany, and the United States, subsequent studies survey: · Some of Asia's traditional training methods and recent experiments...

    Published November 14th 2001 by Routledge

  7. Performance Analysis

    An Introductory Coursebook

    Edited by Colin Counsell, Laurie Wolf

    This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: * decoding the sign * the politics of...

    Published March 14th 2001 by Routledge

  8. Site-Specific Art

    Performance, Place and Documentation

    By Nick Kaye

    Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary practice around the world. The book is...

    Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge

  9. The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance

    Edited by Jane de Gay, Lizbeth Goodman

    The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book...

    Published March 8th 2000 by Routledge

  10. Corpus Delecti

    Performance Art of the Americas

    Edited by Coco Fusco

    The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the...

    Published November 17th 1999 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Performance: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition
    By Marvin Carlson
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  2. Performance and Cultural Politics
    Edited by Elin Diamond
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  3. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories
    By Peggy Phelan
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  4. Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook
    By Alison Oddey
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge
    By Petra Kuppers
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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