The twentieth century performance reader / edited by Teresa Brayshaw and Noel Witts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brayshaw, Teresa.

Witts, Noel, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xxix, 514 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Third edition].

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction : a canon of twentieth-century performance / Noel Witts and Teresa Brayshaw

Interview / Marina Abramovic

The speed of change / Laurie Anderson

Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia

Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud

Diary entries / Bobby Baker

Words or presence / Eugenio Barba.

Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch

Acting exercises / Julian Beck

What is epic theatre? / Walter Benjamin

Speech upon receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1976 / Joseph Beuys

Notes on the invention of tradition / Rustom Bharucha

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

Four statements on the dance / John Cage

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

Interview / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan

Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer / Hanns Eisler

On performance writing / Tim Etchells

Hello mother/ it's my body / Karen Finley

How to write a play / Richard Foreman

Notes on Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass

Performance art from futurism to the present / RoseLee Goldberg

The art of camouflage / Guillermo Gómez-Peña

The creature from the black lagoon / Matthew Goulish

Graham 1937 / Martha Graham

Statement on principles / Jerzy Grotowski

Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata

Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theatre / Alfred Jarry

On stage composition / Wassily Kandinsky

The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor

Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow

Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte

The theatre of gesture and image / Jacques Lecoq

Prologue to Postdramatic theatre

Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage

Expanded Fluxus diagram / George Maciunas

The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti

First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold

Building up the muscle of the imagination / Ariane Mnouchkine

Process notes on Atlas, 1989 / Meredith Monk

19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller

Conversation with Jo Butterworth / Lloyd Newson

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

Meat joy / Carolee Schneemann

Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka

Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski

Composition as explanation / Gertrude Stein

Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc

The visionary landscape of perception / Bill Viola

Interview / Richard Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415696658

9780415696647

041569664X

9780415696654

9780203125236

0203125231

OCLC:

828333851

Publisher Number:

99956874885