The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2020

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781000011883
Related ISBNs:
9780429283956, 9781138785335, 9781138785335, 9781138785342, 9781138785342
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore and Noel Witts
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Teresa Brayshaw
Edited by:
Anna Fenemore
Edited by:
Noel Witts

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