This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemp......more

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and prov......more

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and prov......more

The Happenings that burst on to the late 1950s cultural scene were rapidly declared passé and even ’dead’, but this book......more

"Redface is the first book to consider Native American representation in U.S. theatre, how creating a racialized charact......more

Discover ease and skilfulness through principles from embodied psychology and the Alexander Technique This book explores......more

This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjec......more

Carsten Höller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone......more

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to adv......more

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a p......more

A collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic is ar......more

Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe The Oh Fuck Moment Fucking up is the truest, funniest, most......more

Black actress and activist Hilda Simms was a rising star on the stage and screen in post-WWII America until accusations ......more

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of......more

Lee provides a comprehensive guide that traces the transformation of Korean theatre from traditional to modern theatre a......more

"Disability Works offers a cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States"--...more

Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot ......more

Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears a......more

Crying holds a privileged place in conversations around emotions as an expression of authentic feeling. And yet, tears a......more

"Much has been written about the impact of the internet, smartphones, and social media on our attention spans-and most o......more

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look......more

I first caught Lee Campbell live at the Vauxhall Tea Room Theatre around 2 years ago and was blown away by his unique ap......more

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s......more

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s......more

Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an ar......more

Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad. Most of these poems bubbled......more

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of ......more

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what......more

BEING WORK is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists that offer access to varied experiences of performing ......more

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting ......more

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel’s coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, La......more

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s te......more

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s te......more

Is artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more expressive, or is human thought adopting more and more structures......more

The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing th......more

A whimsically illustrated book containing performative poems to be read aloud A tanrenga poem is a conversation between ......more

This book celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’......more

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the founda......more

This book strikes at the heart of musical performance with a study of the relationship between music and rhetoric which ......more

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long......more

An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in way......more

Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Fo......more

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in i......more

Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an ar......more

By exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th a......more

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Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of S......more

From themed entertainment to business and beyond, anyone involved in leading creative teams will benefit from Kile’s ext......more

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemp......more

Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of S......more

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection betw......more

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sec......more

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sec......more

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have ch......more

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings......more

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings......more

A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, ......more

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora......more

Eriata knows how to knit words with well-tailored lines that capture one’s mind. On a canvas of words, he is the acrylic......more

At the very least, this book is full to the brim with fun and entertainment: -The antics of the house dog, Winston. -The......more

The Smith & Wisznia collection’s singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katr......more

Who will you be? The great Antony? Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen? The power-hungry, Caesar!? Antony and Cleopatra like......more

’That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end’ Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from ......more

Volume nine of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. A Doll’s House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and After Birthday. A Doll’s ......more

Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifest......more

A Los Angeles drama critic called REGARDING MRS. CARTER a "Hamlet for women." That is certainly hyperbole, but this thea......more

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic perfor......more

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Ass......more

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Ass......more

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian pers......more

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and med......more

Winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize 2023 "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political res......more

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating ......more

Questioning what the term ’Chinese art’ means in the era of global art, this book situates Chinese contemporary art in t......more

This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of ......more