Theatre and Performance Studies 2012

The Pina Bausch Sourcebook

The Making of Tanztheater

Edited by Royd Climenhaga

Pina Bausch’s work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina...

Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge

Live Art in LA

Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983

Edited by Peggy Phelan

Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time initiative – a series of exhibitions, performance re-enactments and...

Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge

The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre

By Stephen Di Benedetto

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Di Benedetto considers theatrical practice through the lens of contemporary neuroscientific discoveries in this provoking study, which lays the foundation for considering the physiological basis of the power of theatre practice to affect human behavior. He presents a basic summary of the ways that...

Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge

Exercises for Rebel Artists

Radical Performance Pedagogy

By Guillermo Gómez Peña, Roberto Sifuentes

In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create ‘border art’. Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a...

Published September 12th 2011 by Routledge

ORLAN

A Hybrid Body of Artworks

Edited by Simon Donger, Simon Shepherd

ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms. This single accessible overview of ORLAN's practices describes and analyses her various innovative...

Published May 19th 2010 by Routledge

The DbD Experience

Chance Knows What it's Doing!

By Rachel Rosenthal

Edited by Kate Noonan

First, pick up a copy of Rachel Rosenthal’s inspiring The DbD Experience; Part manual, part manifesto, part memoir, then head for Los Angeles… FRIDAY - OriginsArrive at the Doing by Doing workshop to be greeted by Rosenthal, pioneering theatre explorer and your host for the weekend ahead. Explore...

Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge

The Politics of New Media Theatre

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By Gabriella Giannachi

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political role played by the new media theatre....

Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

From Simulation to Embeddedness

By Matthew Causey

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the...

Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge