What is performance? Where does it take place? Who are the participants? Not long ago these were settled questions, but today the orthodox answers are unsatisfactory, misleading and limiting. `Performance' as a theoretical category and as a practice has expanded explosively. Now it encompasses a panoply of genres that ranges from play, to popular entertainments, to theatre, dance and music, to secular and religious rituals, to `performance in everyday life', to intercultural experiments, and more.
For nearly forty years The Drama Review, the journal of performance studies, has been at the cutting edge of exploring these questions. The Worlds of Performance series is designed to mine the extraordinary riches and diversity of The Drama Review's decades of excellence, bringing back into print important essays, interviews, artists' notes, and photographs. New materials and introductions bring the volumes up to date. Each Worlds of Performance book is an indispensable resource for the scholar, a textbook for the student, and an exciting eye-opener for the general reader.
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By RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam
March 07, 2001
This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work.Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features:*essays from the key ...
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By Joel Schechter
December 23, 2002
Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction.Popular theatre forms introduced in ...
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By Gabrielle Cody, Rebecca Schneider
December 07, 2001
Re: Direction is an extraordinary resource for practitioners and students on directing. It provides a collection of ground-breaking interviews, primary sources and essays on 20th century directing theories and practices around the world. Helpfully organized into four key areas of the subject, the ...
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By Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki
January 05, 2007
This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. ...
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By Henry Bial, Carol Martin
January 31, 2000
Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. The collection explores a wide range of viewpoints about ...
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By Milla Cozart Riggio
December 03, 2004
This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a ...
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By Mariellen Sandford
March 13, 1995
`Happenings' is the term coined by 1960s avantgarde artists for their own unique type of performance event. Together, they formed one of the most influential experimental movements of the century; yet also one of the least-well understood. Bringing together radical visual innovation with live ...
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By Carol Martin
December 04, 1996
This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This outstanding collection includes key texts by ...
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By Annemarie Bean
June 28, 1999
A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s.As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic ...