The Twentieth Century Performance Reader

Contents

• 1. Marina Abramovic: Interview
• 2. Laurie Anderson: The Speed of Change
• 3. Adolph Appiah: Actor, Space, Light, Painting
• 4. Antonin Artaud: Theatre of Cruelty
• 5. Bobby Baker: Performance Artists Bobby Baker
• 6. Rustom Bharucha
• 7. Eugenio Barba: Words or Presence
• 8. Pina Bausch: Not How People Move but What Moves Them
• 9. Julian Beck: Acting Exercises
• 10. Samuel Beckett: Quad
• 11. Walter Benjamin: What is Epic Theatre?
• 12. Augusto Boal: Theatre as Discourse
• 13. Bertolt Brecht: Short Description of a New Technique in Acting Which Produces an Alienation Effect
• 14. Peter Brook: The Deadly Theatre
• 15. Trisha Brown: Trisha Brown: An Interview
• 16. John Cage: Four Statements on the Dance
• 17. Edward Gordon Craig: The Actor and the Uber-Marionette
• 18. Merce Cuningham: You Have to Love Dancing To Stick To It
• 19. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Interview with David Hughes
• 20. Isadora Duncan: The Dancer of the Future
• 21. tim Etchells: On Performance Writing
• 22. Hanns Eisler
• 23. Richard Foreman: How To Write a Play
• 24. Karen Finley: Interview with Andrea Juno
• 25. George Maciunas: Expanded Arts Diagram
• 26. Roselee Goldberg: Performance Art from Futurism to the Present
• 27. Martha Graham: Graham 1987
• 28. Guillermo Gomez-Pena: The Art of Camoflauge
• 29. Philip Glass
• 30. Matthew Goulish: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
• 31. Jerzy Grotowski: Statement of Principles
• 32. Tatsumi Hijikata: Man, Once Dead, Crawl Back!
• 33. Alfred Jarry: On the Futility of the 'Theatrical' in Theatre
• 34. Tadeusz Kantor: The Theatre of Death: A Manifesto
• 35. Wasily Kandinsky: On Stage Composition
• 36. Allan Kaprow: Assemblages, Environments and Happenings
• 37. Elizabeth LeCompte: Interview
• 38. Robert Lepage: Robert Lepage in Conversation
• 39. F.T. Marinetto: The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism
• 40. Meredith Monk: Process Notes on Atlas
• 41. Vsevolod Meyerhold: First Attempts at a Stylised Theatre
• 42. Ariane Mnouchkine: Building up the Muscle of the Imagination
• 43. Heiner Muller: 19 Answers by Heiner Muller
• 44. Lloyd Newson: Interview with Jo Butterworth
• 45. Erwin Piscator: Epic Satire
• 46. Hans-Thies Lehmann: Prologue from Postdramatic Theatre
• 47. Yvonne Rainer: A Quasi Survery of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A
• 48. Hans Richter: How did Dada Begin?
• 49. Richard Shechner: The Five Avant Gardes...or None?
• 50. Carolee Schneeman: Meat Joy
• 51. Oskar Schlemmer: Man and Art Figure
• 52. Wole Soyinka: Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns
• 53. Konstantin Stanislavski: Intonation and Pauses
• 54. Gertrude Stein: Look at Me Now Here I Am
• 55. Stelarc: Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg 56 Bill Viola: The Visionary Landscape of Perception
• 57. Robert Wilson: Interview A Chronology of Texts A Bibliography of Performance