The twentieth-century performance reader

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.