| Description |
xx, 421 pages : 24 cm |
| Contents |
Twentieth-Century Performance: The Case for a New Approach / Michael Huxley and Noel Witts -- 1. The Speed of Change / Laurie Anderson -- 2. Actor, Space, Light, Painting / Adolph Appia -- 3. Theatre and Cruelty / Antonin Artaud -- 4. Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance / Sally Banes -- 5. Words or Presence / Eugenio Barba -- 6. The Grain of the Voice / Roland Barthes -- 7. Not How People Move but What Moves Them / Pina Bausch -- 8. Acting Exercises / Julian Beck -- 9. What is Epic Theater? / Walter Benjamin -- 10. Notes on the Invention of Tradition / Rustom Bharucha -- 11. The Theatre as Discourse / Augusto Boal -- 12. Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect / Bertolt Brecht -- 13. The Deadly Theatre / Peter Brook -- 14. Trisha Brown: an Interview / Trisha Brown -- 15. Four Statements on the Dance / John Cage -- 16. The Actor and the Uber-Marionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- 17. You have to Love Dancing to Stick to it / Merce Cunningham -- 18. The Dancer of the Future / Isadora Duncan -- 19. Some Remarks on the Situation of the Modern Composer / Hanns Eisler -- 20. Notes on Einstein on the Beach / Philip Glass -- 21. Performance Art from Futurism to the Present / Roselee Goldberg -- 22. Statement of Principles / Jerzy Grotowski -- 23. Man, Once Dead, Crawl Back! / Tatsumi Hijikata -- 24. 'Check List', from the Art of Making Dances / Doris Humphrey -- 25. Of the Futility of the 'Theatrical' in Theater / Alfred Jarry -- 26. The Theater of Death: a Manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor -- 27. Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte -- 28. Robert Lepage in Discussion with Richard Eyre / Robert Lepage -- 29. The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism / F. T. Marinetti -- 30. Characteristics of the Modern Dance / John Martin -- 31. First Attempts at a Stylized Theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold -- 32. 19 Answers by Heiner Muller / Heiner Muller -- 33. Epic Satire / Erwin Piscator -- 34. A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer -- 35. How did Dada Begin? / Hans Richter -- 36. The Five Avant Gardes or . . . or None? / Richard Schechner -- 37. Man and Art Figure / Oskar Schlemmer -- 38. Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Wole Soyinka -- 39. Intonations and Pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski -- 40. The Philosophy of Modern Dance / Mary Wigman -- 41. Argument: Text and Performance / Raymond Williams -- 42. Interview / Robert Wilson |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-405) and index |
| Subject |
Performing arts.
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| Author |
Huxley, Michael, 1949-
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Witts, Noel, 1937-
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| LC no. |
95021772 |
| ISBN |
0415116279 |
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0415116287 (paperback) |
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