1st Edition

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

Edited By Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, Noel Witts Copyright 2020
    648 Pages 109 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    648 Pages 109 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.

    This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader, which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies, representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance, and their stories, reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly, academic, creative, interviews, diary entries, autobiographical, polemical and visual.

    Ideal for university students and instructors, this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre, encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new, live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas, The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

    Acknowledgements

    In Dialogue...

    Introduction

     

    1. Action Hero
    2. WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? GEMMA AND JAMES AND ACTION HERO

    3. Mohammad Aghebati
    4. INTERVIEW

    5. Patricia Ariza
      INTERVIEW
    6. Back to Back Theatre
    7. ON MAKING THEATRE

    8. Brett Bailey
    9. INTERVIEW

    10. Dalia Basiouny
    11. PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: STORIES FROM TAHRIR

    12. Jérôme Bel

    13. INTERVIEW

    14. Blast Theory
    15. ULRIKE AND EAMON COMPLIANT: ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

    16. Tammy Brennan
    17. CONFINED: STAGING/IMAGE MOMENTS

    18. Tania Bruguera
    19. INTERVIEW

    20. Builders Association
    21. MARIANNE WEEMS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR BISHOP

    22. Liu Chengrui
    23. A SELECTION OF ACTIONS

    24. Padmini Chettur
      SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE
    25. Constantin Chiriac
    26. INTERVIEW

    27. David Chisholm
    28. THE MEMORY OF REMEMBERING: EXOMOLOGESIS AND EXAGOREUSIS IN THE EXPERIMENT

    29. Clod Ensemble
    30. CLOD ENSEMBLE: PERFORMING MEDICINE

    31. María José Contreras

    32. THE BODY OF MEMORY: MARIA JOSE CONTRERAS’ PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN THE CHILEAN TRANSITION

    33. Augusto Corriere
    34. A CONJURING ACT IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW

    35. Tim Crouch
    36. INTERVIEW

    37. Dah Theatre

    38. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION

    39. Tess de Quincey

    40. A FUTURE BODY

    41. Derevo

    42. ENDLESS DEATH SHOW

    43. Dood Paard
    44. ABOUT US

    45. Every House Has A Door
    46. FROM ONE MEANING TO ANOTHER

    47. Eleonora Fabião
    48. THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE SERIES

    49. Oliver Frljić
    50. INTERVIEW

    51. Gecko
    52. AN ORGANIC JOURNEY

    53. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
    54. MAKING THINGS WORSE

    55. Gibson/Martelli
    56. THE FIFTH WALL

    57. Gob Squad
    58. ON PARTICIPATION

    59. Heiner Goebbels
      AESTHETIC OF ABSENCE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
    60. Chris Goode
    61. THE CAT TEST

    62. Shirotama Hitsujiya
    63. INTERVIEW

    64. Hotel Pro Forma
    65. PERFORMANCE AS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD

    66. Wendy Houstoun
    67. SOME BODY AND NO BODY: THE BODY OF A PERFORMER

    68. Imitating The Dog
    69. THEATRICALISING CINEMA/SCREENING THEATRE

    70. Hiwa K
      INTERVIEW
    71. La Fura dels Baus
    72. INTERVIEW

    73. Lone Twin
    74. INTERVIEW

    75. Silvia Mercuriali
    76. INTERVIEW

    77. Monster Truck
    78. BUT THE WHORES ALWAYS LOVED ME

    79. Needcompany
      INTERVIEW
    80. New Art Club
    81. HOW WE SET OUT TO MAKE A PIECE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL WORKS OF ART AND ENDED UP GETTING NAKED AND TALKING ABOUT HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OUR BODIES

    82. Kira O’Reilly
    83. THE ART OF KIRA O’REILLY

    84. Oblivia
    85. TIME STOPPER

    86. Toshiki Okada

    87. INTERVIEW

    88. Ontroerend Goed
    89. PERSONAL TRILOGY: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE, INTERNAL & GAME OF YOU

    90. Mike Pearson
    91. BUBBLING TOM

    92. Michael Pinchbeck
    93. THIS IS A LOVE LETTER

    94. Punchdrunk
    95. INTERVIEW

    96. Silviu Purcārete
    97. WHERE ARE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS?

    98. Quarantine
    99. A SHOW OF HANDS

    100. Reckless Sleepers
    101. "MIDDLES" & "PHYSICS"

    102. Ridiculusmus
    103. A CHAT ABOUT COMEDY

    104. Rimini Protokoll
    105. INTERVIEW

    106. Farah Saleh
    107. INTERVIEW

    108. Peter Sellars
      INTERVIEW
    109. Shunt
    110. A PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE

    111. Agata Siniarska
    112. DO IT TO ME LIKE IN A REAL MOVIE: LECTURE PERFORMANCE

    113. Deepan Sivaraman
    114. INTERVIEW

    115. Sleepwalk Collective
    116. LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, OR ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A SHOW IS A GIRL AND A MICROPHONE

    117. Andy Smith
    118. THIS IS IT: NOTES ON A DEMATERIALISED THEATRE

    119. Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

    120. THE THEATRE IS NOT OUR HOME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT SPACE, STAGE AND AUDIENCE

    121. Junnosuke Tada
      INTERVIEW
    122. Third Angel
      TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
    123. Ultima Vez
      INTERVIEW
    124. Unlimited
      AM I DEAD YET?
    125. Sankar Venkateswaran
      THEATRE OF THE MIND
    126. Dries Verhoeven
      INTERVIEW
    127. Vincent Dance Theatre
      THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK / MOTHERLAND
    128. Aaron Williamson
      DEMONSTRATING THE WORLD – A PUBLIC INTERVENTION PERFORMANCE
    129. Xing Xin
      INTERVIEW
    130. Andriy Zholdak
      THEORY / LECTURES OF ANDRIY ZHOLDAK

    Index

    Biography

    Teresa Brayshaw is Principal Lecturer in Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University and works freelance as a Feldenkrais teacher, theatre practitioner and personal development coach in a range of international contexts. She co-edited the third edition of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.

    Anna Fenemore is Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. She is also Artistic Director of Manchester-based Pigeon Theatre.

    Noel Witts is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, and a Professorial Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Tadeusz Kantor in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series, and co-editor of all three editions of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.