Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
LO: TECH: POP: CULT: Screendance Remixed
1st Edition
Edited
By Priscilla Guy, Alanna Thain
April 24, 2024
This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and ...
The Art of Entertainment: Popular Performance in Modern British Art, 1880 to 1940
1st Edition
By Jason Price
April 23, 2024
In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, ...
To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater
1st Edition
By Mary B. Robinson
April 05, 2024
This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and ...
ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Carter Harrison, Michael Harris, Pellom McDaniels III
January 29, 2024
‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology ...
Aesthetic Collectives: On the Nature of Collectivity in Cultural Performance
1st Edition
By Andrew Wiskowski
January 29, 2024
This book focuses attention on groups of performing people that are unique aesthetic objects, the focus of an artist’s vision, but at the same time a collective being; a singular, whole mass that exists and behaves like an individual entity. This text explores this unique experience, which is far ...
Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre
1st Edition
By Cecilia Josephine Aragón
January 29, 2024
This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience. Borderlands Children’s Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and ...
Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s
1st Edition
By Tanya Calamoneri
January 29, 2024
Butoh America unearths the people and networks that popularized Butoh dance in the Americas through a focused look at key artists, producers, and festivals in the United States and Mexico. This is the first book to gather these histories into one narrative and look at the development of American ...
Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan: Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations
1st Edition
By Guo Chao
January 29, 2024
This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese history, Guo Chao reflects the transformations in the social zeitgeist in China, especially the politics of gender and sexuality. The breadth of...
Christoph Schlingensief's Realist Theater
1st Edition
By Ilinca Todorut
January 29, 2024
This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist, and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theater and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aesthetic frame sturdy enough to hold together his ...
Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Mirjam Hildbrand
January 29, 2024
This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the ...
Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century: Practice and Performance in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinna Di Niro, Olly Crick
January 29, 2024
This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell’Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre. The contributors in this collection chart their own ...
Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette
1st Edition
By Thomas Leabhart
January 29, 2024
In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of Etienne Decroux’s artistic genealogy. After four years’ apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux’s project. ...