The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
- Editor: Brayshaw, Teresa
- Editor: Witts, Noel
The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
- Editor: Brayshaw, Teresa
- Editor: Witts, Noel
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The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
This carefully revised third edition offers focus on contributions from the world of music, and also privileges the voices of practitioners themselves ahead of more theoretical writing. A bestseller since its original publication in 1996, this new edition has been expanded to include contributions from:
Bobby Baker; Joseph Beuys; Rustom Bharucha; Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; Hanns Eisler; Karen Finley; Philip Glass; Guillermo Gomez-Pena; Matthew Goulish; Martha Graham; Wassily Kandinsky; Jacques Lecoq; Hans-Thies Lehmann; George Maciunas; Ariane Mnouchkine; Meredith Monk; Lloyd Newson; Carolee Schneemann; Gertrude Stein; Bill Viola.
Each extract is fully supplemented by a contextual summary, a biography of the writer, and suggestions for further reading. The volume's alphabetical structure invites the reader to compare and cross-reference major writings on all types of performance outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre, encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings.
All who engage with live, innovative performance, and the interplay of radical ideas, will find this collection invaluable.
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
