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

Contributor(s): Huxley, Michael, 1949- | Witts, Noel, 1937-.

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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xx, 421 p. : 24 cm.ISBN: 0415116279; 0415116287 .Subject(s): Performing arts

DDC classification: 709.04074

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Twentieth-Century Performance Readerprovides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance (dance, drama, music, theatre and live art) through the writings of forty-two practitioners, critics and theorists which together reaffirm performance as a discipline in its own terms.
Organised alphabetically, rather than chronologically or according to art form, this reader invited cross-disciplinary comparisons. Each piece is fully supplemented by a contextual summary, detailed cross-references and suggestions for further reading. The editors' introductory essay provides an invaluable analysis of the field, and the definitive bibliography offers an essential reference source.
The reader, which makes it possible to compare major writings on all types of performance in one volume, will be an essential sourcebook for researchers, practitioners and students. It will also be of interest to anyone who enjoys innovative live performance.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-405) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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