The Knowing Body

The Knowing Body
Author: Louise Steinman
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1995-11-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781556432026

Steinman's book really stands alone among performance art books. While there are many that document what particular artists are doing, this one offers a way in for a person who wants to perform (or know more about how performance artists work). Must reading for anyone interested in performance art, it will also be fascinating to those in theatre, playwriting, visual arts and performance of any sort.

The Knowing Body

The Knowing Body
Author: Louise Steinman
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Whoopi Goldberg, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong, Spalding Gray, Barbara Dilley, and other contemporary performance artists talk about their work.

Demons and Dancers

Demons and Dancers
Author: Ruth Webb
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780674031920

Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137487771

This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

Performance Anthology

Performance Anthology
Author: Carl E. Loeffler
Publisher: Last Gasp
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780867193664

Performance art is a major contemporary art form and California is recognized internationally as a pivotal area for innovative performance art activity. This updated edition of Performance Anthology offers an extraordinary documentation of California performance art from 1970 through 1989. The anthology provides a chronicle of the literature of artists' publications, art journals, major books, and catalogues; introductions and original essays by artists and leading historians and critics of performance art in California; and photographs illustrating major works by California artists. Through the documentation of the literature, a framework is established of the artists, events, organizations and spaces that have been instrumental in launching and sustaining the performance art scene in California.

Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
Author: Cynthia Seel
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571131966

"The study begins with an exploration of O'Connor's Southern milieu, a survey of relevant scholarship (particularly feminist theory), and a clarification of essential terms and concepts surrounding ritual. The remaining chapters are then dedicated to the six short stories, each of which depicts certain ritual patterns and archetypal models. In this way, the study furnishes a prototype that can be applied to O'Connor's entire oeuvre." "Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor is an excellent resource for teachers and students of American literature, Southern Studies, feminist theory, and ritual studies. Because it is story-centered rather than theory-driven, it will appeal to those who are looking for ways to read (and teach) O'Connor's astonishing stories more deeply."--BOOK JACKET.

The Body Eclectic

The Body Eclectic
Author: Melanie Bales
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0252074890

A discussion of current practices in modern dance training

Teaching Performance Studies

Teaching Performance Studies
Author: Nathan Stucky
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809324668

Edited by Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer, Teaching Performance Studies is the first organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice, and pedagogy. This collection of eighteen essays by leading scholars and educators reflects the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre and cultural ritual. The cross-disciplinary freedom enacted by the writers suggests a new vision of performance studies--a deliberate commerce between field and classroom.

Rethinking the Actor's Body

Rethinking the Actor's Body
Author: Dick McCaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350046485

How does an actor embody a character? How do they use their body as an instrument of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an actor does with their body. Built on almost a decade of conversations and public seminars by the author Dick McCaw in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), Rethinking the Actor's Body explores a set of questions and preoccupations concerning the actor's body and examines overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, embodied knowledge and neurophysiology.