The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader

by Huxley; Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415252874
• ISBN10: 0415252873
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Twentieth Century Performance Readerprovides a pioneering introduction to all types of performance - dance, drama, music, opera and live art. It presents a selection of texts by over thirty practitioners, critics and theorists, which together affirmperformanceas a discipline in its own terms. The Twentieth Century Performance Readerfeatures: * contextual summaries and suggestions for further reading * a definitive bibliography * an invaluable contextual summary of the field. Organised alphabetically rather than chronologically or according to art form,The Twentieth Century Performance Readerinvites cross-disciplinary comparisons. Here, together in one volume, are all the major statements on performance written this century: from Adolph Appia to Laurie Anderson.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvii
How To Use This Book	xxi
Introduction	1	(10)
Michael Huxley
Noel Witts
Interview	11	(12)
Marina Abramovic
The Speed of Change	23	(6)
Laurie Anderson
Actor, Space, Light, Painting	29	(4)
Adolph Appia
Theatre and Cruelty	33	(4)
Antonin Artaud
Post-Modern Dance	37	(5)
Sally Banes
Words or Presence	42	(7)
Eugenio Barba
The Grain of the Voice	49	(8)
Roland Barthes
Not How People Move but What Moves Them	57	(8)
Pina Bausch
Acting Exercises	65	(3)
Julian Beck
Quad	68	(5)
Samuel Beckett
What is Epic Theatre?	73	(7)
Walter Benjamin
The Theatre as Discourse	80	(13)
Augusto Boal
Short Description of a New Technique in Acting which Produces an Alienation Effect	93	(12)
Bertolt Brecht
The Deadly Theatre	105	(6)
Peter Brook
Trisha Brown: An Interview	111	(9)
Trisha Brown
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution	120	(15)
Judith Butler
Four Statements on the Dance	135	(11)
John Cage
What is Performance?	146	(8)
Marvin Carlson
Current Trends/the Director as Partly Actor	154	(5)
Jacques Copeau
The Actor and the Uber-Marionette	159	(8)
Edward Gordon Craig
You Have to Love Dancing to Stick to it	167	(4)
Merce Cunningham
The Dancer of the Future	171	(7)
Isadora Duncan
On Performance Writing	178	(13)
Tim Etchells
How to Write a Play	191	(10)
Richard Foreman
Choreographing History	201	(11)
Susan Leigh Foster
Performance art from Futurism to the Present	212	(5)
Roselee Goldberg
Statement of Principles	217	(8)
Jerzy Grotowski
Man, Once Dead, Crawl Back!	225	(4)
Tatsumi Hijikata
He Art of Making Dances	229	(9)
Doris Humphrey
Of the Futility of the `Theatrical' in Theatre	238	(6)
Alfred Jarry
A Conversation	244	(5)
Bill T. Jones
The Theatre of Death: A Manifesto	249	(11)
Tadeusz Kantor
Assemblages, Environments and Happenings	260	(11)
Allan Kaprow
Interview	271	(8)
Elizabeth LeCompte
Robert Lepage in Discussion	279	(10)
Robert Lepage
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism	289	(6)
F.T. Marinetti
Characteristics of the Modern Dance	295	(8)
John Martin
First Attempts at a Stylised Theatre	303	(11)
Vsevolod Meyerhold
19 Answers by Heiner Muller	314	(6)
Heiner Muller
Epic Satire	320	(7)
Erwin Piscator
A Quasi Survey of Some `Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A	327	(8)
Yvonne Rainer
How Did Dada Begin?	335	(7)
Hans Richter
The Five Avant Gardes Or...Or None?	342	(17)
Richard Schechner
Man and Art Figure	359	(13)
Oskar Schlemmer
Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns	372	(14)
Wole Soyinka
Intonations and Pauses	386	(6)
Konstantin Stanislavski
Interview With Nicholas Zurbrugg	392	(10)
Stelarc
The Philosophy of Modern Dance	402	(5)
Mary Wigman
Argument: Text and Performance	407	(13)
Raymond Williams
Interview	420	(14)
Robert Wilson
A Chronology of Texts	434	(3)
A Bibliography of Performance 2002	437	(7)
Index	444