Singing Emptiness

Linda Hess

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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 ... Lees meer

Global Foreigners

Saviana Stanescu

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• In Waxing West, Daniella, newly arrived in the US from Romania, is haunted by the ghosts of the deposed dictator Ceausescu and his wife Elena until sh... Lees meer

Theatre of Roots

Erin B Mee

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• After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an 'Indian' theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre ... Lees meer

The Delight of Turkish Dizi

Arzu Öztürkmen

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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, ... Lees meer

Performing Stories

Nina Tecklenburg

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• Retelling performances, collecting things, reading traces, mapping memories, gaming autobiographies: in European and Anglo-American theater since the ... Lees meer

La Divina Caricatura

Lee Breuer

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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... Lees meer

The Unknown Theatre of Jerzy Grotowski

Dariusz Kosinski, Wanda Swiatkowska

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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 i... Lees meer

Performing Utopia

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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 ... Lees meer

Crucible Bodies

Tadashi Uchino

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• Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium is a collection of essays covering a wide range of historical and theo... Lees meer

Conversations Across Borders

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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• For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from... Lees meer

Death Tourism

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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 ... Lees meer

Kaddish

Jan Kott

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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 Catho... Lees meer

Professional Wrestling

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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... Lees meer

Understanding Theatre

Marco de Marinis

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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 comple... Lees meer

Performing Religion in the Americas

Alyshia Galvez

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• Religious practice and belief remain astoundingly diverse across North and South America. At a time when globalization is taken to mean the ever great... Lees meer

Rhythm Field

Molissa Fenley

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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 e... Lees meer

The Avant-Garde

Mike Sell

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• In The Avant-Garde, Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a European phenomen... Lees meer

Beijing Xingwei

Meiling Cheng

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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 i... Lees meer

Pop Goes the Avant-Garde

Rossella Ferrari

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• Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde d... Lees meer