Studies in International Performance – serie
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76 produkter
Dancing Communities
Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City
Av J. Hamera
Inbunden, 2006
566 kr
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Dancers create 'civic culture' as performances for public consumption, but also as vernaculars connecting individuals who may have little in common. Examining performance and the construction of culturally diverse communities the book suggests that amateur and concert dance can teach us how to live …
Performance and Cosmopolitics
Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia
Av H. Gilbert, J. Lo
Inbunden, 2007
566 kr
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This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sheds light on international arts marketing …
Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East
Av S. Kuftinec
Inbunden, 2009
566 kr
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How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships.
Theatre and Event
Staging the European Century
Av A. Kear
Inbunden, 2013
632 kr
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In the beginning of the 21st century, European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the 20th century as the unfinished business of the contemporary. In this book, Kear argues that by thinking through the logic of the event, contemporary performance offers an affective …
Community Theatre and AIDS
Av O. Johansson
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other …
Worlding Dance
Av S. Foster
Inbunden, 2009
1124 kr
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What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by …
Contemporary Street Arts in Europe
Aesthetics and Politics
Av S. Haedicke
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that …
Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage
Av C. Martin
Inbunden, 2010
1124 kr
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The Dramaturgy of the Real brings together an incredible range of international theatre thinking, plays and performance texts, many published here for the first time, that ask questions about how we have come to understand reality and truth in the twenty-first century and analyze the presentation …
Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Av Y. Meerzon
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life …
Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre
Inbunden, 2010
1236 kr
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An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries …
Performing Otherness
Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952
Av M. Cohen
Inbunden, 2010
1124 kr
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A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural …
On the Performance Front
US Theatre and Internationalism
Av C. Canning
Inbunden, 2015
566 kr
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This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and …
Performance and Cosmopolitics
Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia
Av H. Gilbert, J. Lo
Häftad, 2007
566 kr
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This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sheds light on international arts marketing …
Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement
The Last Human Venue
Av A. Read
Häftad, 2007
1380 kr
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This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer …
Rise of Performance Studies
Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has …
Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization
Performing Zero
Av D. Lei
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in locations around the Pacific …
Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism
Thinking the Political Anew
Av M. Wickstrom
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of …
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres
Performance Permutations
Av L. Nielsen, P. Ybarra
Inbunden, 2012
1124 kr
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How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences.
Contemporary Indian Dance
New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora
Av K. Katrak
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, …
Performance, Politics and Activism
Inbunden, 2013
566 kr
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Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.
Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
Performance Traditions of the Maghreb
Av Khalid Amine, Marvin Carlson
Inbunden, 2011
566 kr
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Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain …
Theatre of the Real
Av C. Martin
Inbunden, 2012
1124 kr
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This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations in devising and staging theatre and performance that takes reality as its subject, cultural shifts that have generated theatre of the …
Performance, Space, Utopia
Cities of War, Cities of Exile
Av S. Jestrovic
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites …
Performing European Memories
Trauma, Ethics, Politics
Inbunden, 2013
1256 kr
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Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, …
Worlding Dance
Av S. Foster
Häftad, 2009
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1124 kr
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What world has been constructed for dancing through the use of the term 'world dance'? What kinds of worlds do we as scholars create for a given dance when we undertake to describe and analyze it? This book endeavours to make new epistemological space for the analysis of the world's dance by …
Violence Performed
Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict
Av P. Anderson, J. Menon
Häftad, 2008
622 kr
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This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea and South Africa to India and Israel.
Performing the 'New' Europe
Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest
Inbunden, 2013
1348 kr
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This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe …
Royal Court: International
Inbunden, 2015
566 kr
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The first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries.
Acoustic Interculturalism
Listening to Performance
Inbunden, 2012
566 kr
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Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing – an awareness of …
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific
Regional Modernities in the Global Era
Av D. Varney, P. Eckersall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
566 kr
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Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
