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America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

Mueller Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...

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Performing Arts

Serial Black Face

Nabers Janine, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300211375, Yale University Press, November 2015
128 pp., 22.9x14 cm

The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars wit...

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Performing Arts

Polonica

Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work

Laster Dominika

ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...

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Performing Arts

Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology

Knopf Robert, Listengarten Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Performing Arts

Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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Performing Arts

Disabled Theater

Umathum Sandra, Wihstutz Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9783037345245, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
288 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 30 halftones

Celebrated as an outstanding conceptual dance piece on the one hand and harshly criticized for being a contemporary freak show on the other, "Disabled Theater" by Jerome Bel and Theater Hora polarizes the public. In either case, the production raises...

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Performing Arts

New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater Play and Playtext

Mujica Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300109566, Yale University Press, February 2015
800 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full t...

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Performing Arts

Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781611687033, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2015
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions – orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first ce...

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Performing Arts

In Performance

Rechnitz, and The Merchant's Contracts

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857422255, Seagull Books, February 2015
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...

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