Performance art

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual...

Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between...

In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body--stripped it of special techniques and star...

Peter Baren is one of the very few Dutch artists who came upon the stage as a performance artist around 1980 and one of the very few who has...

An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the...

Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine ‘socially engaged performance’. It offers a...

What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Is it damaged by cultural policies introduced since the 1997 election of...

Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and...