The Twentieth Century Performance Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Brayshaw, Teresa; Witts, Noel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the key introductory text to all types of performance with extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136449130
• Artikelnr.: 39682069

Autorenporträt

Teresa Brayshaw is Director of Performing Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University. She teaches, directs and performs in a wide range of international performance contexts, and is co-editor of Training Grounds, located within the international journal Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. Noel Witts is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University, and was the founder and first Director of the Department of Performing Arts at De Montfort University. He has been a commentator on theatre for the BBC, has served as an Arts Council advisor for 20 years and has written widely on theatre, including most recently Tadeusz Kantor (Routledge). He was a founding member of the journal Performance Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Marina Abramovic: Interview 2. Laurie Anderson: The Speed of Change 3.
Adolph Appiah: Actor, Space, Light, Painting 4. Antonin Artaud: Theatre of
Cruelty 5. Bobby Baker: Performance Artists Bobby Baker 6. Rustom Bharucha
7. Eugenio Barba: Words or Presence 8. Pina Bausch: Not How People Move but
What Moves Them 9. Julian Beck: Acting Exercises 10. Samuel Beckett: Quad
11.Walter Benjamin: What is Epic Theatre? 12. Augusto Boal: Theatre as
Discourse 13. Bertolt Brecht: Short Description of a New Technique in
Acting Which Produces an Alienation Effect 14. Peter Brook: The Deadly
Theatre 15. Trisha Brown: Trisha Brown: An Interview 16. John Cage: Four
Statements on the Dance 17. Edward Gordon Craig: The Actor and the
Uber-Marionette 18. Merce Cuningham: You Have to Love Dancing To Stick To
It 19. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Interview with David Hughes 20. Isadora
Duncan: The Dancer of the Future 21. tim Etchells: On Performance Writing
22. Hanns Eisler 23. Richard Foreman: How To Write a Play 24. Karen Finley:
Interview with Andrea Juno 25. George Maciunas: Expanded Arts Diagram 26.
Roselee Goldberg: Performance Art from Futurism to the Present 27. Martha
Graham: Graham 1987 28. Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Art of Camoflauge 29.
Philip Glass 30. Matthew Goulish: The Creature from the Black Lagoon 31.
Jerzy Grotowski: Statement of Principles 32. Tatsumi Hijikata: Man, Once
Dead, Crawl Back! 33. Alfred Jarry: On the Futility of the 'Theatrical' in
Theatre 34. Tadeusz Kantor: The Theatre of Death: A Manifesto 35. Wasily
Kandinsky: On Stage Composition 36. Allan Kaprow: Assemblages, Environments
and Happenings 37. Elizabeth LeCompte: Interview 38. Robert Lepage: Robert
Lepage in Conversation 39. F.T. Marinetto: The Founding and Manifesto of
Futurism 40. Meredith Monk: Process Notes on Atlas 41. Vsevolod Meyerhold:
First Attempts at a Stylised Theatre 42. Ariane Mnouchkine: Building up the
Muscle of the Imagination 43. Heiner Müller: 19 Answers by Heiner Müller
44. Lloyd Newson: Interview with Jo Butterworth 45. Erwin Piscator: Epic
Satire 46. Hans-Thies Lehmann: Prologue from Postdramatic Theatre 47.
Yvonne Rainer: A Quasi Survery of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the
Quantatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of
Trio A 48. Hans Richter: How did Dada Begin? 49. Richard Shechner: The Five
Avant Gardes...or None? 50. Carolee Schneeman: Meat Joy 51. Oskar
Schlemmer: Man and Art Figure 52. Wole Soyinka: Theatre in African
Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns 53. Konstantin Stanislavski:
Intonation and Pauses 54. Gertrude Stein: Look at Me Now Here I Am 55.
Stelarc: Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg 56 Bill Viola: The Visionary
Landscape of Perception 57. Robert Wilson: Interview A Chronology of Texts
A Bibliography of Performance