Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

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.

This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader, which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies, representing the work of this century's leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance, and their stories, reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms - scholarly, academic, creative, interviews, diary entries, autobiographical, polemical and visual.
Ideal for university students and instructors, this volume's structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre, encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new, live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas, The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

In Dialogue...
Introduction
 

1. Action Hero

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? GEMMA AND JAMES AND ACTION HERO


2. Mohammad Aghebati

INTERVIEW


3. Patricia Ariza
   INTERVIEW




4. Back to Back Theatre

ON MAKING THEATRE



5. Brett Bailey

INTERVIEW


6. Dalia Basiouny

PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: STORIES FROM TAHRIR

7. Jérôme Bel
   
INTERVIEW



8. Blast Theory

ULRIKE AND EAMON COMPLIANT: ARTISTS' STATEMENT



9. Tammy Brennan

CONFINED: STAGING/IMAGE MOMENTS



10. Tania Bruguera

INTERVIEW



11. Builders Association

MARIANNE WEEMS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR BISHOP



12. Liu Chengrui

A SELECTION OF ACTIONS



13. Padmini Chettur
    SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE



14. Constantin Chiriac

INTERVIEW



15. David Chisholm

THE MEMORY OF REMEMBERING: EXOMOLOGESIS AND EXAGOREUSIS IN THE EXPERIMENT


16. Clod Ensemble

CLOD ENSEMBLE: PERFORMING MEDICINE


17. María José Contreras
    
THE BODY OF MEMORY: MARIA JOSE CONTRERAS' PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN THE CHILEAN TRANSITION



18. Augusto Corriere

A CONJURING ACT IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW



19. Tim Crouch

INTERVIEW

20. Dah Theatre
    
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION

21. Tess de Quincey
    
A FUTURE BODY


22. Derevo
    
ENDLESS DEATH SHOW


23. Dood Paard

ABOUT US



24. Every House Has A Door

FROM ONE MEANING TO ANOTHER


25. Eleonora Fabião

THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE SERIES


26. Oliver Frljic
INTERVIEW



27. Gecko

AN ORGANIC JOURNEY



28. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN

MAKING THINGS WORSE



29. Gibson/Martelli

THE FIFTH WALL



30. Gob Squad

ON PARTICIPATION



31. Heiner Goebbels
    AESTHETIC OF ABSENCE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN




32. Chris Goode

THE CAT TEST



33. Shirotama Hitsujiya

INTERVIEW



34. Hotel Pro Forma

PERFORMANCE AS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD



35. Wendy Houstoun

SOME BODY AND NO BODY: THE BODY OF A PERFORMER



36. Imitating The Dog

THEATRICALISING CINEMA/SCREENING THEATRE



37. Hiwa K
    INTERVIEW




38. La Fura dels Baus

INTERVIEW


39. Lone Twin

INTERVIEW



40. Silvia Mercuriali

INTERVIEW


41. Monster Truck

BUT THE WHORES ALWAYS LOVED ME



42. Needcompany
    INTERVIEW




43. 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


44. Kira O'Reilly

THE ART OF KIRA O'REILLY



45. Oblivia

TIME STOPPER


46. Toshiki Okada
    
INTERVIEW



47. Ontroerend Goed

PERSONAL TRILOGY: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE, INTERNAL & GAME OF YOU



48. Mike Pearson

BUBBLING TOM


49. Michael Pinchbeck

THIS IS A LOVE LETTER



50. Punchdrunk

INTERVIEW


51. Silviu Purcarete
WHERE ARE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS?



52. Quarantine

A SHOW OF HANDS



53. Reckless Sleepers

"MIDDLES" & "PHYSICS"



54. Ridiculusmus

A CHAT ABOUT COMEDY



55. Rimini Protokoll

INTERVIEW



56. Farah Saleh

INTERVIEW



57. Peter Sellars
    INTERVIEW




58. Shunt

A PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE

59. Agata Siniarska
DO IT TO ME LIKE IN A REAL MOVIE: LECTURE PERFORMANCE



60. Deepan Sivaraman

INTERVIEW



61. Sleepwalk Collective

LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, OR ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A SHOW IS A GIRL AND A MICROPHONE



62. Andy Smith

THIS IS IT: NOTES ON A DEMATERIALISED THEATRE


63. Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
    
THE THEATRE IS NOT OUR HOME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT SPACE, STAGE AND AUDIENCE



64. Junnosuke Tada
    INTERVIEW
    



65. Third Angel
    TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
    



66. Ultima Vez
    INTERVIEW
    



67. Unlimited
    AM I DEAD YET?




68. Sankar Venkateswaran
    THEATRE OF THE MIND
    



69. Dries Verhoeven
    INTERVIEW
    



70. Vincent Dance Theatre
    THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK / MOTHERLAND
    



71. Aaron Williamson
    DEMONSTRATING THE WORLD - A PUBLIC INTERVENTION PERFORMANCE
    



72. Xing Xin
    INTERVIEW
    



73. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Fenemore Brayshaw
• Assisted by: Teresa Brayshaw (Editor), Brayshaw Teresa (Editor), Anna Fenemore (Editor), Fenemore Anna (Editor), Noel Witts (Editor), Witts Noel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2019
• EAN: 9781138785342
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78534-2
• No. of pages: 614
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; The arts: general issues, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, The arts: general topics