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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives, and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers, and practitioners.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
In Dialogue...
Introduction
- Action Hero
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? GEMMA AND JAMES AND ACTION HERO
- Mohammad Aghebati
INTERVIEW
- Patricia Ariza
INTERVIEW
- Back to Back Theatre
ON MAKING THEATRE
- Brett Bailey
INTERVIEW
- Dalia Basiouny
PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: STORIES FROM TAHRIR
- Jérôme Bel
INTERVIEW
- Blast Theory
ULRIKE AND EAMON COMPLIANT: ARTISTS' STATEMENT
- Tammy Brennan
CONFINED: STAGING/IMAGE MOMENTS
- Tania Bruguera
INTERVIEW
- Builders Association
MARIANNE WEEMS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR BISHOP
- Liu Chengrui
A SELECTION OF ACTIONS
- Padmini Chettur
SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE
- Constantin Chiriac
INTERVIEW
- David Chisholm
THE MEMORY OF REMEMBERING: EXOMOLOGESIS AND EXAGOREUSIS IN THE EXPERIMENT
- Clod Ensemble
CLOD ENSEMBLE: PERFORMING MEDICINE
- María José Contreras
THE BODY OF MEMORY: MARIA JOSE CONTRERAS' PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN THE CHILEAN TRANSITION
- Augusto Corriere
A CONJURING ACT IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW
- Tim Crouch
INTERVIEW
- Dah Theatre
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION
- Tess de Quincey
A FUTURE BODY
- Derevo
ENDLESS DEATH SHOW
- Dood Paard
ABOUT US
- Every House Has A Door
FROM ONE MEANING TO ANOTHER
- Eleonora Fabião
THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE SERIES
- Oliver Frlji¿
INTERVIEW
- Gecko
AN ORGANIC JOURNEY
- GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
MAKING THINGS WORSE
- Gibson/Martelli
THE FIFTH WALL
- Gob Squad
ON PARTICIPATION
- Heiner Goebbels
AESTHETIC OF ABSENCE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
- Chris Goode
THE CAT TEST
- Shirotama Hitsujiya
INTERVIEW
- Hotel Pro Forma
PERFORMANCE AS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD
- Wendy Houstoun
SOME BODY AND NO BODY: THE BODY OF A PERFORMER
- Imitating The Dog
THEATRICALISING CINEMA/SCREENING THEATRE
- Hiwa K
INTERVIEW
- La Fura dels Baus
INTERVIEW
- Lone Twin
INTERVIEW
- Silvia Mercuriali
INTERVIEW
- Monster Truck
BUT THE WHORES ALWAYS LOVED ME
- Needcompany
INTERVIEW
- New Art Club
HOW WE SET OUT TO MAKE A PIECE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL WORKS OF ART AND ENDED UP GETTING NAKED AND TALKING ABOUT HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OUR BODIES
- Kira O'Reilly
THE ART OF KIRA O'REILLY
- Oblivia
TIME STOPPER
- Toshiki Okada
INTERVIEW
- Ontroerend Goed
PERSONAL TRILOGY: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE, INTERNAL & GAME OF YOU
- Mike Pearson
BUBBLING TOM
- Michael Pinchbeck
THIS IS A LOVE LETTER
- Punchdrunk
INTERVIEW
- Silviu Purc¿rete
WHERE ARE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS?
- Quarantine
A SHOW OF HANDS
- Reckless Sleepers
"MIDDLES" & "PHYSICS"
- Ridiculusmus
A CHAT ABOUT COMEDY
- Rimini Protokoll
INTERVIEW
- Farah Saleh
INTERVIEW
- Peter Sellars
INTERVIEW
- Shunt
A PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE
- Agata Siniarska
DO IT TO ME LIKE IN A REAL MOVIE: LECTURE PERFORMANCE
- Deepan Sivaraman
INTERVIEW
- Sleepwalk Collective
LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, OR ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A SHOW IS A GIRL AND A MICROPHONE
- Andy Smith
THIS IS IT: NOTES ON A DEMATERIALISED THEATRE
- Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
THE THEATRE IS NOT OUR HOME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT SPACE, STAGE AND AUDIENCE
- Junnosuke Tada
INTERVIEW
- Third Angel
TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
- Ultima Vez
INTERVIEW
- Unlimited
AM I DEAD YET?
- Sankar Venkateswaran
THEATRE OF THE MIND
- Dries Verhoeven
INTERVIEW
- Vincent Dance Theatre
THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK / MOTHERLAND
- Aaron Williamson
DEMONSTRATING THE WORLD - A PUBLIC INTERVENTION PERFORMANCE
- Xing Xin
INTERVIEW
- Andriy Zholdak
THEORY / LECTURES OF ANDRIY ZHOLDAK
Index
About the author
Teresa Brayshaw is Principal Lecturer in Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University and works freelance as a Feldenkrais teacher, theatre practitioner and personal development coach in a range of international contexts. She co-edited the third edition of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.
Anna Fenemore is Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. She is also Artistic Director of Manchester-based Pigeon Theatre.
Noel Witts is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, and a Professorial Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Tadeusz Kantor in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series, and co-editor of all three editions of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.
Summary
The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives, and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers, and practitioners.
