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

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

"The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this da......more

This scrapbook is a comprehensive record of the making of Linda Karshan’s historical walked drawing masterpiece, Two Fee......more

Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica......more

A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality pe......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

If you wandered the streets of Oakland or Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through 2013, you likely saw one of Fr......more

"A Trip To Mackin’ Island" by Das Bruce was the second book written. Through a course of mishaps, the book and a collect......more

This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Gr......more

Dive into this "introspectacle" and weird world of the Curious! This anthology of eight plays offers readers irreverent ......more

How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial......more

Volume four of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Franz Into April, Pasionaria, Aunt Mary and Up In Sweden. Franz In......more

Actors! Have you been considering the enticing move to LA? Well, this is the book for you! Join award-winning actress Kr......more

Chaos, crisis, and change are recurring themes in life. You might fear the chaos, operate in constant crisis, or resist ......more

Volume six of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. Deborah’s Daughter, Finchie’s War, At The Window and Stella Campbel......more

Volume seven of a series of plays written by Pam Gems. The Odd Women, The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill, ......more

Performing the jumbled city is a complex artefact beyond its own materiality. Linked to a dedicated website hosting addi......more

Weitkamp and Almeida enter into the space where museums, universities and research centres operate, as well as the space......more

A leading figure of the 1970s and 80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong has channeled time and langu......more

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how s......more

In A Singing Approach to Horn Playing, author and renowned teacher-musician Natalie Douglass Grana develops the fundamen......more

Performing care explores the relation between socially-engaged performance and care and care ethics. It questions how pe......more

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researchin......more

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on fest......more

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Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn’t know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to......more

In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New York theater artists who have spent their lives wo......more

This book was originally made available to attendees of Doomsday 11 in May 2022. Doomsday is the world’s premier annual ......more

Recipient of the 2023 International Skiing History Association’s Ullr Book Award. The story of ballet skiing is one of u......more

Recipient of the 2023 International Skiing History Association’s Ullr Book Award. The story of ballet skiing is one of u......more

’Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.’ This book traces......more

Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University......more

Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University......more

Discover The Most Legendary Magicians in History! In this mind opening book you will learn about the origins of magic, t......more

Stage fright, performance nerves, performance anxiety: are you terrified of stepping into the spotlight? Do you shake, g......more

This volume deals with the development of Chinese theatre from 1949 to 2000, covering the fluctuations of "drama reform"......more

Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but......more

A unique, boxed set of 30 instruction cards by Marina Abramovic to teach you this legend of performance art’s method for......more

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon ......more

"This work is the first volume of Stanislavski’s trilogy on the art of acting, [which] explains the art of acting in sem......more

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to m......more

Coining the term "Jugoslovenka" to designate the unique history of Yugoslav women’s resistance to patriarchy during and ......more

Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the c......more

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

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Fresh perspectives on teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education are offered in this book. One-to-one......more

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Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways......more

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways......more

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition. Emerging from a liminal space between movements of thought and ......more

The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking......more

This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aes......more

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one’s life and one’s art? This latest book of essays from legenda......more

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one’s life and one’s art? This latest collection of essays from l......more

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles De......more

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages an......more

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages an......more

Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment,......more

Theatre presents readers with an introduction to the role theatre plays in human health and wellbeing. It presents an ov......more

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Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and ......more

Want to learn valuable secrets about making your own low-budget films? This book is at once Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart......more

Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stun......more

Acting Action provides a foundation for how to get started and build the core of a performance. More precisely, it provi......more

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

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Horizontal together tells the story of 1960s art and queer culture in New York through the overlapping circles of Andy W......more

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This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a......more

This book traces Dàdàkúàdá’s history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoru......more