The Twentieth Century Performance Reader

Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgements\nHow to Use This Book\nINTRODUCTION: A CANON OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERFORMANCE\n1 INTERVIEW\n2 THE SPEED OF CHANGE\n3 ACTOR, SPACE, LIGHT, PAINTING\n4 THEATRE AND CRUELTY\n5 DIARY ENTRIES\n6 WORDS OR PRESENCE\n7 NOT HOW PEOPLE MOVE BUT WHAT MOVES THEM\n8 ACTING EXERCISES\n9 WHAT IS EPIC THEATER?\n10 SPEECH UPON RECEIVING AN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, HALIFAX 1976\n11 NOTES ON THE INVENTION OF TRADITION\n12 THE THEATER AS DISCOURSE\n13 SHORT DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TECHNIQUE OF ACTING WHICH PRODUCES AN ALIENATION EFFECT\n14 THE DEADLY THEATRE\n15 TRISHA BROWN: AN INTERVIEW\n16 FOUR STATEMENTS ON THE DANCE\n17 CURRENT TRENDS/THE DIRECTOR AS PARTLY ACTOR\n18 THE ACTOR AND THE ÜBER-MARIONETTE\n19 YOU HAVE TO LOVE DANCING TO STICK TO IT\n20 INTERVIEW\n21 THE DANCER OF THE FUTURE\n22 SOME REMARKS ON THE SITUATION OF THE MODERN COMPOSER\n23 ON PERFORMANCE WRITING\n24 HELLO MOTHER/IT\'S MY BODY\n25 HOW TO WRITE A PLAY\n26 NOTES ON EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH\n27 PERFORMANCE ART FROM FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT\n28 THE ART OF CAMOUFLAGE\n29 THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON\n30 GRAHAM 1937\n31 STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES\n32 MAN, ONCE DEAD, CRAWL BACK!\n33 OF THE FUTILITY OF THE \'THEATRICAL\' IN THEATER\n34 ON STAGE COMPOSITION\n35 THE THEATRE OF DEATH: A MANIFESTO\n36 ASSEMBLAGES, ENVIRONMENTS AND HAPPENINGS\n37 INTERVIEW\n38 THE THEATRE OF GESTURE AND IMAGE\n39 PROLOGUE TO POSTDRAMATIC THEATRE\n40 ROBERT LEPAGE IN DISCUSSION\n41 EXPANDED FLUXUS DIAGRAM\n42 THE FOUNDING AND MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM\n43 FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE\n44 BUILDING UP THE MUSCLE OF THE IMAGINATION\n45 PROCESS NOTES ON ATLAS, 1989\n46 19 ANSWERS BY HEINER MÜLLER\n47 CONVERSATION WITH JO BUTTERWORTH\n48 EPIC SATIRE\n49 A QUASI SURVEY OF SOME \'MINIMALIST\' TENDENCIES IN THE QUANTITATIVELY MINIMAL DANCE ACTIVITY MIDST THE PLETHORA, OR AN ANALYSIS OF TRIO A\n50 HOW DID DADA BEGIN?\n51 THE FIVE AVANT-GARDES OR . . . OR NONE?\n52 MAN AND ART FIGURE\n53 MEAT JOY\n54 THEATRE IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL CULTURES: SURVIVAL PATTERNS\n55 INTONATIONS AND PAUSES\n56 COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION\n57 INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS ZURBRUGG\n58 THE VISIONARY LANDSCAPE OF PERCEPTION\n59 INTERVIEW\nA Chronology of Texts\nIndex