On the Edge of Utopia

Rachel Bowditch

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• During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock... 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

Enacting Pleasure

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• In her book In a Different Voice , psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffic... 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

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

Performance in Place of War

James Thompson, Jenny Hughes, Michael Balfour

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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 m... 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

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

Grotowski's Empty Room

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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 Th... Lees meer

Dancing Odissi

Anurima Banerji

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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 tr... 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

The Colonial Staged

Sudipto Chatterjee

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• From the late eighteenth century, Calcutta, first city of the British empire, has been a hub of intersecting ideas and movements of change. Nowhere di... Lees meer

Performing the Nation

Ananda Breed

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• A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers st... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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