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The Twentieth-century Performance Reader Has Been The Key Introductory Text To All Types Of Performance For Over Fifteen Years. Extracts From Over Fifty Practitioners, Critics And Theorists From The Fields Of Dance, Drama, Music, Theatre And Live Art Form An Essential Sourcebook For Students, Researchers And Practitioners. This Carefully Revised Third Edition Offers Focus On Contributions From The World Of Music, And Also Privileges The Voices Of Practitioners Themselves Ahead Of More Theoretical Writing. A Bestseller Since Its Original Publication In 1996, This New Edition Has Been Expanded To Include Contributions From: Bobby Baker; Joseph Beuys; Rustom Bharucha; Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker; Hanns Eisler; Karen Finley; Philip Glass; Guillermo Gómez-peña; Matthew Goulish; Martha Graham; Wassily Kandinsky; Jacques Lecoq; Hans-thies Lehmann; George Maciunas; Ariane Mnouchkine; Meredith Monk; Lloyd Newson; Carolee Schneemann; Gertrude Stein; Bill Viola. Each Extract Is Fully Supplemented By A Contextual Summary, A Biography Of The Writer, And Suggestions For Further Reading. The Volume's Alphabetical Structure Invites The Reader To Compare And Cross-reference Major Writings On All Types Of Performance Outside Of The Constraints And Simplifications Of Genre, Encouraging Cross-disciplinary Understandings. All Who Engage With Live, Innovative Performance, And The Interplay Of Radical Ideas, Will Find This Collection Invaluable. Introduction: A Canon Of Twentieth-century Performance / Noel Witts And Teresa Brayshaw -- Interview / Marina Abramovic -- The Speed Of Change / Laurie Anderson -- Actor, Space, Light, Painting / Adolphe Appia -- Theatre And Cruelty / Antonin Artaud -- Diary Entries / Bobby Baker -- Words Or Presence / Eugenio Barba. -- Not How People Move But What Moves Them / Pina Bausch -- Acting Exercises / Julian Beck -- What Is Epic Theater? / Walter Benjamin -- Speech Upon Receiving An Honorary Doctorate Degree From The Nova Scotia College Of Art And Design, Halifax 1976 / Joseph Beuys -- Notes On The Invention Of Tradition / Rustom Bharucha -- The Theater As Discourse / Augusto Boal -- Short Description Of A New Technique Of Acting Which Produces An Alienation Effect / Bertolt Brecht -- The Deadly Theatre / Peter Brook -- Trisha Brown: An Interview / Trisha Brown -- Four Statements On The Dance / John Cage -- Current Trends/the Director As Partly Actor / Jacques Copeau -- The Actor And The über-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- You Have To Love Dancing To Stick To It / Merce Cunningham -- Interview / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker -- The Dancer Of The Future / Isadora Duncan -- Some Remarks On The Situation Of The Modern Composer / Hanns Eisler -- On Performance Writing / Tim Etchells -- Hello Mother/it's My Body / Karen Finley -- How To Write A Play / Richard Foreman -- Notes On Einstein On The Beach / Philip Glass -- Performance Art From Futurism To The Present / Roselee Goldberg -- The Art Of Camouflage / Guillermo Gómez-peña -- The Creature From The Black Lagoon / Matthew Goulish -- Graham 1937 / Martha Graham -- Statement Of Principles / Jerzy Grotowski -- Man, Once Dead, Crawl Back! / Tatsumi Hijikata -- Of The Futility Of The 'theatrical' In Theater / Alfred Jarry -- On Stage Composition / Wassily Kandinsky -- The Theatre Of Death: A Manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor -- Assemblages, Environments And Happenings / Allan Kaprow -- Interview / Elizabeth Lecompte -- The Theatre Of Gesture And Image / Jacques Lecoq -- Prologue To Postdramatic Theatre / Hans-thies Lehmann -- Robert Lepage In Discussion / Robert Lepage -- Expanded Fluxus Diagram / George Maciunas -- The Founding And Manifesto Of Futurism / F.t. Marinetti -- First Attempts At A Stylized Theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Building Up The Muscle Of The Imagination / Ariane Mnouchkine -- Process Notes On Atlas, 1989 / Meredith Monk -- 19 Answers By Heiner Müller / Heiner Müller -- Conversation With Jo Butterworth / Lloyd Newson -- Epic Satire / Erwin Piscator -- A Quasi Survey Of Some 'minimalist' Tendencies In The Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst The Plethora, Or An Analysis Of Trio A / Yvonne Rainer -- How Did Dada Begin? / Hans Richter -- The Five Avant Gardes Or... Or None? / Richard Schechner -- Man And Art Figure / Oskar Schlemmer -- Meat Joy / Carolee Schneemann -- Theatre In African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Wole Soyinka -- Intonations And Pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski -- Composition As Explanation / Gertrude Stein -- Interview With Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc -- The Visionary Landscape Of Perception / Bill Viola -- Interview / Robert Wilson. Edited By Teresa Brayshaw And Noel Witts. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.