The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-78534-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 648 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1135 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brayshaw, Teresa

Fenemore, Anna

Witts, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.