Twentieth-Century Performance Reader

Name: Twentieth-Century Performance Reader
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ISBN: 9780415252874

ISBN-10: 0415252873

ISBN-13: 9780415252874

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Huxley, Noel Witts

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The Twentieth Century Performance Readerprovides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance - dance, drama, music, opera and live art. It presents a selection of texts by over thirty practitioners, critics and theorists, which together affirmperformanceas a discipline in its own terms. The Twentieth Century Performance Readerfeatures: * contextual summaries and suggestions for further reading * a definitive bibliography * an invaluable contextual summary of the field. Organised alphabetically rather than chronologically or according to art form,The Twentieth Century Performance Readerinvites cross-disciplinary comparisons. Here, together in one volume, are all the major…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/13/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English



Deadly Theatre



Trisha Brown: an Interview




Performative Acts and Gender Constitution




Four Statements on the Dance




What is Performance?




Current Trends/The Director as Partly Actor




The Actor and the Uber-Marionette




You Have to Love Dancing To Stick To It




The Dancer of the Future




On Performance Writing




How To Write a Play




Choreographing History




Performance Art from Futurism to the Present




Statement of Principle




Man, Once Dead, Crawl Back!




The Art of Making Dances




Of the Futility of the "Theatrical" in Theatre




A Conversation




The Theatre of Death: A Manifesto




Assemblages, Environments and Happenings




Interview




Robert Lepage in discussion




The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism




Characteristics of the Modern Dance




First Attempts at a Stylised Theatre




19 Answers by Heiner Muller




Epic Satire




Yvonne Rainer



How Did Dada Begin?




The Five Avant Gardes or none?




Man and Art Figure




Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns




Intonations and Pauses




Stelarc : Interview



The Philosophy of Modern Dance




Argument: Text and Performance




Interview A Chronology of Texts


A Bibliography of Performance


Index