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.
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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 Frljic
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 Purcarete
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
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