Enactments – serie
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33 produkter
Subject–Object Art Theory
Häftad, 2025
226 kr
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Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium—now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire.Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory is both a manifesto and a method—an incendiary redefinition of what art can and should be in an era of increasing repression. Known for his …
Beijing Xingwei
Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art
Häftad, 2014
358 kr
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From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In …
Death Tourism
Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape
Häftad, 2014
393 kr
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Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, …
Performing the Nation
Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation
Av Ananda Breed
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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A dance begins beneath the out-stretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearings on the one hundred days of bloodshed known as …
Festive Devils of the Americas
Av Milla Cozart Riggio, Angela Marino m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
405 kr
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The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil - the devil that dances - turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. Festive Devils of the Americas is the first volume to present a transnational and …
Rhythm Field
The Dance of Molissa Fenley
Häftad, 2015
405 kr
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Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that infused her work with endurance, balance, and life …
Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory
Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
Häftad, 2015
317 kr
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One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowski's career. In Grotowski's Bridge …
Performing Utopia
Av Rachel Bowditch, Pegge Vissicaro
Häftad, 2018
317 kr
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In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," …
Medical Clowning
The Healing Performance
Av Amnon Raviv
Häftad, 2018
317 kr
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Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients especially children to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can be traced to the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit at …
Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
Häftad, 2020
273 kr
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From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York’s downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. Ron Vawter’s Life in Performance is the first book focused on this incomparable actor’s specific contributions to ensemble theater, …
Dancing Odissi
Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
Häftad, 2019
452 kr
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Odissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance’s transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as transnational spectacle, with a focus on the …
La Divina Caricatura
Bunraku Meets Motown
Av Lee Breuer
Häftad, 2019
296 kr
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This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarry—if Jarry had been a Dante fan. In this play we meet unforgettable characters: Rose the …
Understanding Theatre
Häftad, 2019
450 kr
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Over the past three decades, theater studies has undergone a radical worldwide development and renewal. This happened through two different yet complementary paths: the first (North American in origin) led to the birth of the discipline of performance studies; the second (European continental) is …
Kaddish
Pages on Tadeusz Kantor
Häftad, 2020
166 kr
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Tadeusz Kantor (1915–90) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish theater into his works. In Kaddish, Jan Kott, an …
Professional Wrestling
Politics and Populism
Av Sharon Mazer, Heather Levi m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
359 kr
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A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional wrestling is also intrinsically political. Its …
Performing Stories
Narrative as Performance
Häftad, 2022
403 kr
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Retelling performances, collecting things, reading traces, mapping memories, gaming autobiographies: in European and Anglo-American theater since the turn of the millennium, a range of new nonliterary narrative practices such as these have taken root. Unable to be subsumed under a well-established …
Delight of Turkish Dizi
Memory, Genre and Politics of Television in Turkey
Häftad, 2023
415 kr
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The first comprehensive study of dizi, a television genre unique to Turkey akin to soap opera or telenovela. Standing at the crossroads of folklore, media, and performance studies, Arzu Öztürkmen explores the rise of the dizi genre in Turkey since the 1970s, when national television broadcasting …
Unknown Theatre of Jerzy Grotowski
Performances in the Theatre of 13 Rows, 1959–1964
Av Dariusz Kosinski, Wanda Swiatkowska
Häftad, 2023
433 kr
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Examines the previously unresearched formative years of Polish director Jerzy Grotowski’s career. Polish director Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999) was an international leader in experimental theater who became famous in the late 1960s for his revolutionary approach to audience involvement. This volume …
Eternal Performance
Taziyeh and Other Shiite Rituals
Häftad, 2024
254 kr
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Exploring the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals for millions of global observers. Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala—a windswept desert plain that …
Source Work for Actors
Häftad, 2025
244 kr
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An actor delves into the electrifying world of Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory Theatre.The legacy of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski and the skills of his legendary actors come to life in this personal account of a workshop and intensive with Laboratory Theatre master actor Zbigniew …
Crossings
"Varied Imagination" and "Living between Languages"
Av Sylvia Molloy, Diana Taylor
Inbunden, 2025
989 kr
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A captivating exploration of identity, language, and memory, weaving together whimsical and profound vignettes that challenge our understanding of home and self in a multicultural world.In Crossings, Sylvia Molloy embarks on an evocative exploration of the intricate and profound experience of …
Crossings
"Varied Imagination" and "Living between Languages"
Av Sylvia Molloy, Diana Taylor
Häftad, 2025
211 kr
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A captivating exploration of identity, language, and memory, weaving together whimsical and profound vignettes that challenge our understanding of home and self in a multicultural world.In Crossings, Sylvia Molloy embarks on an evocative exploration of the intricate and profound experience of …
I Never Made Love with James Baldwin
A Memoir
Häftad, 2026
272 kr
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One man's life unfolds into a memoir of the defining cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century and beyond.I Never Made Love with James Baldwin is a dazzling memoir told through a succession of attorney Stanley Cohen's vivid encounters with some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth …
Humanitarian Performance
From Disaster Tragedies to Spectacles of War
Häftad, 2026
311 kr
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A groundbreaking lens on humanitarianism, which reframes global humanitarian responses to war and disaster through performance studies, revealing how aid, media, and public attention transform crisis into spectacle on a world stage.As the world is challenged by a state of constant conflict and by …
On the Edge of Utopia
Performance and Ritual at Burning Man
Inbunden, 2010
317 kr
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During the week before Labor Day every year, nearly fifty thousand people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a forty-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning …
Singing Emptiness
Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir
Av Linda Hess
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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Now in paperback, the journey of a great Hindustani classical vocalist's search for the voice of emptiness.Here, two men, five centuries apart, make contact with each other through poetry, music, and performance. Kumar Gandharva, the great twentieth-century Hindustani classical vocalist, sings …
Source Work for Actors
Inbunden, 2025
1019 kr
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An actor delves into the electrifying world of Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory Theatre.The legacy of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski and the skills of his legendary actors come to life in this personal account of a workshop and intensive with Laboratory Theatre master actor Zbigniew …
Subject–Object Art Theory
Inbunden, 2026
1019 kr
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Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium—now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire.Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory is both a manifesto and a method—an incendiary redefinition of what art can and should be in an era of increasing repression. Known for his …
Performance in Place of War
Av James Thompson, Jenny Hughes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
295 kr
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From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata", war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. However, many of the most extraordinary theater projects in recent years not only have been about war but also have originated in actual conflict zones themselves. …
Grotowski's Empty Room
Av Paul Allain
Inbunden, 2009
264 kr
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Jerzy Grotowski (1933-99) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small theaters and studio spaces, and as a result one of his central …
