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Performance and Communities eBook Series

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  • Socially Engaged Creative Practice

    Contemporary Case Studies

    Series series Performance and Communities
    This is the second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artists engages with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space – and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.Each chapter focuses on an individual or group’s mode of working and ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

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  • Applied Theatre

    International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice

    Theatre practice and applied theatre are areas of growing international interest. Applied Theatre is the first study to assist practitioners and students to develop critical frameworks for planning and implementing their own theatrical projects. This reader-friendly text considers an international range of case studies in applied theatre through discussion questions, practical activities and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What Are Museums For?

    by Jon Sleigh ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on display and how it is presented? Who gets to set the narrative?In this passionately argued book, Jon Sleigh maintains that museums must be for all people and inclusion must be at the heart of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Long Live Queer Nightlife

    How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution

    by Amin Ghaziani ...
    It’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe—but it’s definitely not the last danceIn this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling ... Read more

    Was $23.09 USD Now $14.39 USD

  • The Feminist Art of Walking

    by Morag Rose ...
    ‘Evocatively demonstrates the power of walking as not only a source of individual connection to place, but as something that helps us rediscover, and fight for, what matters to our communities’ Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City‘A moving and delightful wander through the personal and the political. A feminist manifesto for everyone who has felt the oppression of the city and wants to claim it ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking Inside Out

    Contemporary British Psychogeography

    Edited by Tina Richardson ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Mothering Performance

    Maternal Action

    Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; ... Read more

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  • Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds

    Edited by Sarah Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series series Open University Childhood
    Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

    A Handbook

    by Phil Smith ...
    This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Care Ethics and Art

    What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of neoliberalism.Interdisciplinary and innovative, it brings together contributions from ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Live Art Almanac

    Volume 4

    Edited by Lois Keidan ...
    Drawing together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, The Live Art Almanac is both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.The Live Art Almanac Volume 4 is? a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • In Defence of Theatre

    Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions

    Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD