| Description |
xxii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"The Twentieth Century Performance Reader provides 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 affirm performance as a discipline in its own terms. The Twentieth Century Performance Reader features: contextual summaries and suggestions for further reading; a definitive bibliography; and an invaluable contextual summary of the field." "Organised alphabetically rather than chronologically or according to art form, The Twentieth Century Performance Reader invites cross-disciplinary comparisons. Here, together in one volume, are all the major statements on performance written this century: from Adolph Appia to Laurie Anderson."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Performing arts.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Huxley, Michael, 1949-
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Witts, Noel, 1937-
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| LC no. |
2002068252 |
| ISBN |
0415252865 HB |
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0415252873 PB |
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