The Twentieth century performance reader /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. |
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| Description: | xx, 421 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Performing arts. Performing arts. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2764689 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Laurie Anderson The Speed of Change
- 2. Adolph Appia, Actor, Space, Light, Painting
- 3. Antonin Artaud, Theatre and Cruelty
- 4. Sally Banes, Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-modern Dance
- 5. Eugenio Barba, Words or Presence
- 6. Roland Barthes, The Grain of the Voice
- 7. Pina Bausch, Not how people move but what moves them
- 8. Julian Beck, Acting exercises
- 9. Walter Benjamin, What is Epic Theater?
- 10. Rustom Bharucha, Notes on the invention of tradition
- 11. Augusto Boal, The theatre as discourse
- 12. Bertrolt Brecht, Short description of a new technique of acting which produces an alienation effect
- 13. Peter Brook, The Deadly Theatre
- 14. Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown: An interview
- 15. John Cage, Four statements on the dance
- 16. Edward Gordon Craig, The Actor and the Uber-Marionette
- 17. Merce Cunningham, You have to love dancing to stick to it
- 18. Isadora Duncan, The Dancer of the future
- 19. Hanns Eisler, Some remarks on the situation of the modern composer
- 20. Philip Glass, Notes on Einstein on the beach
- 21. Roselee Goldberg, Performance Art from Futurism to the present
- 22. Jerzy Grotowski, Statement of principles
- 23. Tatsumi Hijikata, Man, once dead, crawl back!
- 24. Doris Humphrey, 'Check list', from The Art of Making Dances
- 25. Alfred Jarry, Of the futility of the 'Theatrical' in Theater
- 26. Tadeusz Kantor, The Theatre of Death: A Manifesto
- 27. Elizabeth LeCompte, Interview
- 28. Robert Lepage, Robert Lepage in discussion with Richard Eyre
- 29. F.T. Marinetti, The founding and manifesto of futurism
- 30. John Martin, Characteristics of the modern dance
- 31. Vsevolod Meyerhold, First attempts at a stylized theatre
- 32. Heiner Muller, 19 Answers by Heiner Muller
- 33. Erwin Psicator, Epic Satire
- 34. Yvonne Rainer, A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of trio A
- 35. Hans Richter, How did Dada begi?
- 36. Richard Schechner, The five avant gardes or ... or none?
- 37. Oskar Schlemmer, Man and art figure
- 38. Wole Soyinka, Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns
- 39. Konstantin Stanislavski, Intonations and pauses
- 40. Mary Wigman, The philosophy of modern dance
- 41. Raymond Williams, Argument: Text and Performance
- 42. Robert Wilson, Interview Chronology of Texts
- Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Performance
- Index