The twentieth century performance reader / edited by Teresa Brayshaw and Noel Witts.

Other author Brayshaw, Teresa.
Other author Witts, Noel, 1937-
Format Book
Edition[3rd edition].
PublicationLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Descriptionxxix, 514 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Performing arts.

Contents Introduction : a canon of twentieth-century performance / Noel Witts and Teresa Brayshaw -- Interview / Marina Abramovic -- The speed of change / Laurie Anderson -- Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia -- Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud -- Diary entries / Bobby Baker -- Words or presence / Eugenio Barba. -- Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch -- Acting exercises / Julian Beck -- What is epic theatre? / Walter Benjamin -- Speech upon receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax 1976 / Joseph Beuys -- Notes on the invention of tradition / Rustom Bharucha -- The theatre as discourse / Augusto Boal -- Short description of a new technique in acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht -- The deadly theatre / Peter Brook -- Trisha Brown : an interview / Trisha Brown -- Four statements on the dance / John Cage -- Current trends/the director as partly actor / Jacques Copeau -- The actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham -- Interview / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker -- The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan -- Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer / Hanns Eisler -- On performance writing / Tim Etchells -- Hello mother/ it's my body / Karen Finley -- How to write a play / Richard Foreman -- Notes on Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass -- Performance art from futurism to the present / RoseLee Goldberg -- The art of camouflage / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- The creature from the black lagoon / Matthew Goulish -- Graham 1937 / Martha Graham -- Statement on principles / Jerzy Grotowski -- Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata -- Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theatre / Alfred Jarry -- On stage composition / Wassily Kandinsky -- The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor -- Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow -- Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte -- The theatre of gesture and image / Jacques Lecoq -- Prologue to Postdramatic theatre -- Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage -- Expanded Fluxus diagram / George Maciunas -- The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti -- First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Building up the muscle of the imagination / Ariane Mnouchkine -- Process notes on Atlas, 1989 / Meredith Monk -- 19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller -- Conversation with Jo Butterworth / Lloyd Newson -- Epic satire / Erwin Piscator -- A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer -- How did Dada begin? / Hans Richter -- The five avant gardes or... or none? / Richard Schechner -- Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer -- Meat joy / Carolee Schneemann -- Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka -- Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski -- Composition as explanation / Gertrude Stein -- Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc -- The visionary landscape of perception / Bill Viola -- Interview / Richard Wilson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013003422
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