The Twentieth-century performance reader / edited, with an introduction and contextual summaries, by Michael Huxley and Noel Witts

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1996Description: 421 p.; 23 cmISBN:

0415116287

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Contents:

The Speed of change / Laurie Anderson. -- Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia. -- Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud. -- Terpsichore in sneakers : post-modern dance / Sally Banes. -- Words or presence / Eugenio Barba. -- The Grain of the voice / Roland Barthes. -- Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch. -- Acting exercises / Julian Beck. -- What is epic theater? / Walter Benjamin. -- Notes on the invention of tradition / Rustom Bharucha. -- The Theatre as discourse / Augusto Boal. -- Short description of a new technique of acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht. -- The Deadly theatre / Peter Brook. -- Trisha Brown : an interview / Trisha Brown. -- Four statements on the dance / John Cage. -- The Actor and the über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig. -- You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham. -- The Dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan. -- Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer / Hanns Eisler. -- Notes on Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass. -- Performance art from futurism to the present / Roselee Goldberg. -- Statement of principles / Jerzy Grotowski. -- Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata. -- "Check list", from the art of making dances / Doris Humphrey. -- Of the futility of the "theatrical" in theater / Alfred Jarry. -- The theater of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor

Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte. -- Robert Lepage in discussion with Richard Eyre / Robert Lepage. -- The Founding and manifesto of futurism / F. T. Marinetti. -- Characteristics of the modern dance / John Martin. -- First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold. -- 19 answers by Heiner Müller / Heyner Müller. -- Epic satire / Erwin Piscator. -- A Quasi survey of some "minimalist" tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer. -- How did dada begin? / Hans Richter. -- The Five avant gardes or ... or none? / Richard Schechner. -- Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer. -- Theatre in african traditional cultures : survival patterns / Wole Soyinka. -- Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski. -- The Philosophy of modern dance / Mary Wigman. -- Argument : text and performance / Raymond Williams. -- Interview / Robert Wilson

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792"19" TWE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900023685