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The twentieth-century performance reader
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
2002
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
Introduction / Michael Huxley & Noel Witts.
Interview / Marina Abramovic.
The speed of change / Laurie Anderson.
Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia.
Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud.
Post-modern dance / Sally Banes.
Words or presence / Eugenio Barba.
The grain of the voice / Roland Barthes.
Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch.
Acting exercises / Julian Beck.
Quad / Samuel Beckett.
What is epic theatre? / Walter Benjamin.
The theatre as discourse / Augusto Boal.
Short description of a new technique in acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht.
The deadly theatre / Peter Brook.
Trisha Brown: an interview / Trisha Brown.
Performance acts and gender constitution / Judith Butler.
Four statements on the dance / John Cage.
What is performance? / Marvin Carlson.
Current trends/the director as partly actor / Jacques Copeau.
The actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig.
You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham.
The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan.
On performance writing / Tim Etchells.
How to write a play / Richard Foreman.
Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster.
Performance art from futurism to the present / Roselee Goldberg.
Statement on principles / Jerzy Grotowski.
Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata.
The art of making dances / Doris Humphrey.
Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theatre / Alfred Jarry.
A conversation / Bill T. Jones.
The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor.
Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow.
Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte.
Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage.
The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti.
Characteristics of the modern dance / John Martin.
First attempts at a stylised theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold.
19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller.
Epic satire / Erwin Piscator.
A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer.
How did Dada begin? / Hans Richter.
The five avant gardes or... or none? / Richard Schechner.
Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer.
Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka.
Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski.
Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc.
The philosophy of modern dance / Mary Wigman.
Argument: text and performance / Raymond Williams.
Interview / Richard Wilson.
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9780415252867
9780415252874
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