The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners.
This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader, which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies, representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance, and their stories, reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly, academic, creative, interviews, diary entries, autobiographical, polemical and visual.
Ideal for university students and instructors, this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre, encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new, live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas, The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.
Author(s): Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, Noel Witts
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 648
City: Abingdon
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
In dialogue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Action Hero: What’s Love Got to Do with It Gemma and Fames and Action Hero
Chapter 2: Mohammad Aghebati: Interview with Jessica Rizzo
Chapter 3: Patricia Ariza: Interview with Beatriz Cabur
Chapter 4: Back to Back Theatre: On Making Theatre
Chapter 5: Brett Bailey: Interview with Anton Krueger
Chapter 6: Dalia Basiouny: Performance through the Egyptian Revolution: Stories from Tahrir
Chapter 7: Jérôme Bel: In Conversation with Catherine Wood
Chapter 8: Blast Theory: Ulrike and Eamon Compliant: Artists’ Statement
Chapter 9: Tammy Brennan: Confined: Storyboard
Chapter 10: Tania Bruguera: Interview with Jeannette Petrik
Chapter 11: The Builders Association: Marianne Weems in Conversation with Eleanor Bishop
Chapter 12: Liu Chengrui: A Selection of Actions: A Conversation with Pui Yin Tong
Chapter 13: Padmini Chettur: Some Thoughts for the Future
Chapter 14: Constantin Chiriac: Interview with Noel Witts
Chapter 15: David Chisholm: The Memory of Remembering: Exomologesis and Exagoreusis in the Experiment
Chapter 16: Clod Ensemble: Performing Medicine
Chapter 17: María José Contreras: The Body of Memory: María José Contreras’ Performance Practices in the Chilean Transition
Chapter 18: Augusto Corrieri: A Conjuring Act in the Form of an Interview
Chapter 19: Tim Crouch: Interview with Seda Ilter
Chapter 20: Dah Theatre: A Conjuring Act in the Form of an Interview
Chapter 21: Tess de Quincey: A Future Body
Chapter 22: Derevo: Endless Death Show
Chapter 23: Dood Paard: About Us
Chapter 24: Every house has a door: From One Meaning to Another
Chapter 25: Eleonora Fabião: Things That Must be Done Series
Chapter 26: Oliver Frljić: Interview with Suzana Marjanić
Chapter 27: Gecko: An Organic Journey
Chapter 28: GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN: Making Things Worse
Chapter 29: Gibson/Martelli: The Fifth Wall
Chapter 30: Gob Squad: On Participation
Chapter 31: Heiner Goebbels: Aesthetics of Absence: How It All Began
Chapter 32: Chris Goode: The Cat Test
Chapter 33: Shirotama Hitsujiya: Interview with Naito Mao and Hibino Kei
Chapter 34: Hotel Pro Forma: Performance as an Investigation of the World
Chapter 35: Wendy Houstoun: Some Body and No Body: The Body of a Performer
Chapter 36: Imitating the dog: Theatricalising Cinema/ Screening Theatre
Chapter 37: Hiwa K: Interview with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf
Chapter 38: La Fura dels Baus: Interview with Mercè Saumell
Chapter 39: Lone Twin: Greg Whelan: Interview with Carl Lavery and David Williams
Chapter 40: Silvia Mercuriali: Interview with Josephine Machon
Chapter 41: Monster Truck: But the Whores Always Loved Me
Chapter 42: Needcompany: Jan Lauwers: Interview with Noel Witts
Chapter 43: New Art Club: How We Set out to Make a Piece about Controversial Works of Art and Ended up Getting Naked and Talking about How We Feel about our Bodies
Chapter 44: Oblivia: Time Stopper
Chapter 45: Toshiki Okada: Interview with Jeremy Barker
Chapter 46: Ontroerend Goed: Personal Trilogy: The Smile off Your Face, Internal and a Game of You
Chapter 47: Kira O’Reilly: The Art of Kira O’reilly
Chapter 48: Mike Pearson: Bubbling Tom
Chapter 49: Michael Pinchbeck: This Is a Love Letter
Chapter 50: Punchdrunk: Felix Barrett: Interview with Josephine Machon
Chapter 51: Silviu Purcărete: Where are Your Training Grounds?
Chapter 52: Quarantine: A Show of Hands
Chapter 53: Reckless Sleepers: “Middles” and “Physics”
Chapter 54: Ridiculusmus: A Chat about Comedy
Chapter 55: Rimini Protokoll: Interview with Peter M. Boenisch
Chapter 56: Farah Saleh: Interview with Marianna Liosi
Chapter 57: Peter Sellars: Interview with Bonnie Maranca
Chapter 58: Shunt: A Performance Collective
Chapter 59: Agata Siniarska: Do It to Me Like in a Real Movie: Lecture Performance
Chapter 60: Deepan Sivaraman: Interview with Noel Witts
Chapter 61: Sleepwalk Collective: Lost in the Funhouse, or All You Need to Make a Show Is a Girl and a Microphone
Chapter 62: Andy Smith: This is It: Notes on a Dematerialised Theatre
Chapter 63: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: Entries from a Notebook of Romeo Castellucci
Chapter 64: Junnosuke Tada: Interview with Masashi Nomura
Chapter 65: Third Angel: Testing the Hypothesis
Chapter 66: Ultima Vez: Wim Vandekeybus: Interview with Michaël Bellon
Chapter 67: Unlimited: Am I Dead Yet?
Chapter 68: Sankar Venkateswaran: Theatre of the Mind
Chapter 69: Dries Verhoeven: Interview with Robbert Van Heuven
Chapter 70: Vincent Dance Theatre: Motherlands
Chapter 71: Aaron Williamson: Demonstrating the World: A Public Intervention Performance
Chapter 72: Xing Xin: Interview with Pui Yin Tong
Chapter 73: Andriy Zholdak: Theory/Lectures of Andriy Zholdak
Index
