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.
Music and Sound in European Theatre: Practices, Performances, Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By David Roesner, Tamara Yasmin Quick
November 29, 2024
The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices have been an integral part of theatre ever since the artform was first established 2,500 years ago: not just in subsequent genres that are explicitly driven by music, such as opera...
(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn Deboeck, Aoise Stratford
November 28, 2024
This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and ...
1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking
1st Edition
By Emily LeQuesne
November 28, 2024
What is dramaturgy? Can you be taught how to do it? 1000 Ways to Ask Why is a practical how-to guide and introduction to dramaturgy and dramaturgical thinking for dramaturgs, directors, playwrights, devised theatre makers, choreographers, and performers. This book introduces The Mosaic Scale ...
Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former Yugoslav Space: (in)dependent Scenes
1st Edition
By Alexandra Baybutt
November 28, 2024
This book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project ‘Nomad Dance Academy’ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a ...
Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021: Landmarks of South African Theatre History
1st Edition
Edited
By Phyllis Klotz, Smal Ndaba
November 28, 2024
This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to ...
Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume II
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna B Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin
November 22, 2024
Representing the output of the research project "Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge," this volume brings together diverse voices, methods, and formats in the discussion and practice of performance conservation. Conservators, artists, curators and scholars explore the ontology of ...
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
1st Edition
By Harriet Curtis
November 19, 2024
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical ...
Logomimesis: A Treatise On The Performing Body
1st Edition
By Esa Kirkkopelto
November 18, 2024
How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical, ethical, and political thinking today? This book is a study of the body and language on the stage. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and...
Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors
1st Edition
By Bill Gelber
November 07, 2024
Based on the author’s decades of teaching, pedagogical and theatrical research, and his professional experience as actor and director, Making a Scene: Creating a Scene Study Class for Actors offers a pedagogical approach to rehearsal scenes as a primary tool for diagnosis and ...
Beyond Innocence: Children in Performance
1st Edition
By Adele Senior
October 23, 2024
On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists. Meanwhile, across the contemporary performance landscape, children are participating as performers and collaborators in ways that resonate with this figure of the ...
Teaching Dance Improvisation: A Beginner's Guide
1st Edition
By Matthew Farmer
October 22, 2024
Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author’s theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or hip hop, this book supplies its reader with an ...
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Volume II Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
October 17, 2024
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, ...