Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIn Dialogue...Introduction

1. 
   
   
2. Action Hero

3. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? GEMMA AND JAMES AND ACTION HERO

   
   
   
4. Mohammad Aghebati

5. INTERVIEW

   
   
   
6. Patricia Ariza
   INTERVIEW
7. Back to Back Theatre

8. ON MAKING THEATRE

   
   
   
9. Brett Bailey

10. INTERVIEW

    
    
    
11. Dalia Basiouny

12. PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: STORIES FROM TAHRIR

13. Jerome Bel

14. INTERVIEW

    
    
    
15. Blast Theory
16. ULRIKE AND EAMON COMPLIANT: ARTISTS' STATEMENT
    
    
17. Tammy Brennan
18. CONFINED: STAGING/IMAGE MOMENTS
    
    
    
    
19. Tania Bruguera

20. INTERVIEW

21. Builders Association

22. MARIANNE WEEMS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR BISHOP

    
    
    
23. Liu Chengrui

24. A SELECTION OF ACTIONS

25. Padmini Chettur
    SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE
26. 
    
    
27. Constantin Chiriac

28. INTERVIEW

29. David Chisholm

30. THE MEMORY OF REMEMBERING: EXOMOLOGESIS AND EXAGOREUSIS IN THE EXPERIMENT

31. Clod Ensemble

32. CLOD ENSEMBLE: PERFORMING MEDICINE

33. Maria Jose Contreras

34. THE BODY OF MEMORY: MARIA JOSE CONTRERAS' PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN THE CHILEAN TRANSITION

35. Augusto Corriere

36. A CONJURING ACT IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW

    
    
    
37. Tim Crouch

38. INTERVIEW

39. Dah Theatre

40. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION

41. Tess de Quincey

42. A FUTURE BODY

43. Derevo

44. ENDLESS DEATH SHOW

    
    
    
45. Dood Paard

46. ABOUT US

47. Every House Has A Door

48. FROM ONE MEANING TO ANOTHER

49. Eleonora Fabiao

50. THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE SERIES

51. Oliver Frljic

52. INTERVIEW

53. Gecko

54. AN ORGANIC JOURNEY

55. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN

56. MAKING THINGS WORSE

57. Gibson/Martelli

58. THE FIFTH WALL

    
    
    
59. Gob Squad

60. ON PARTICIPATION

61. Heiner Goebbels
    AESTHETIC OF ABSENCE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
62. Chris Goode

63. THE CAT TEST

64. Shirotama Hitsujiya

65. INTERVIEW

66. Hotel Pro Forma

67. PERFORMANCE AS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD

    
    
    
68. Wendy Houstoun

69. SOME BODY AND NO BODY: THE BODY OF A PERFORMER

70. Imitating The Dog

71. THEATRICALISING CINEMA/SCREENING THEATRE

72. Hiwa K
    INTERVIEW
73. La Fura dels Baus

74. INTERVIEW

75. Lone Twin

76. INTERVIEW

77. Silvia Mercuriali

78. INTERVIEW

79. Monster Truck

80. BUT THE WHORES ALWAYS LOVED ME

81. Needcompany
    INTERVIEW
82. New Art Club

83. HOW WE SET OUT TO MAKE A PIECE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL WORKS OF ART AND ENDED UP GETTING NAKED AND TALKING ABOUT HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OUR BODIES

    
    
    
84. Kira O'Reilly

85. THE ART OF KIRA O'REILLY

86. Oblivia

87. TIME STOPPER

88. Toshiki Okada

89. INTERVIEW

90. Ontroerend Goed

91. PERSONAL TRILOGY: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE, INTERNAL & GAME OF YOU

92. Mike Pearson

93. BUBBLING TOM

94. Michael Pinchbeck

95. THIS IS A LOVE LETTER

96. Punchdrunk

97. INTERVIEW

98. Silviu Purcarete

99. WHERE ARE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS?

100. Quarantine

101. A SHOW OF HANDS

102. Reckless Sleepers

103. "MIDDLES" & "PHYSICS"

104. Ridiculusmus

105. A CHAT ABOUT COMEDY

106. Rimini Protokoll

107. INTERVIEW

108. Farah Saleh

109. INTERVIEW

110. Peter Sellars
     INTERVIEW
111. Shunt

112. A PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE

113. Agata Siniarska

114. DO IT TO ME LIKE IN A REAL MOVIE: LECTURE PERFORMANCE

115. Deepan Sivaraman

116. INTERVIEW

117. Sleepwalk Collective

118. LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, OR ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A SHOW IS A GIRL AND A MICROPHONE

119. Andy Smith

120. THIS IS IT: NOTES ON A DEMATERIALISED THEATRE

121. Societas Raffaello Sanzio

122. THE THEATRE IS NOT OUR HOME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT SPACE, STAGE AND AUDIENCE

123. Junnosuke Tada
     INTERVIEW
     
124. 
     
     
125. Third Angel
     TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
     
126. 
     
     
127. Ultima Vez
     INTERVIEW
     
128. 
     
     
129. Unlimited
     AM I DEAD YET?
130. Sankar Venkateswaran
     THEATRE OF THE MIND
     
131. 
     
     
132. Dries Verhoeven
     INTERVIEW
     
133. 
     
     
134. Vincent Dance Theatre
     THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK / MOTHERLAND
     
135. 
     
     
136. Aaron Williamson
     DEMONSTRATING THE WORLD - A PUBLIC INTERVENTION PERFORMANCE
     
137. 
     
     
138. Xing Xin
     INTERVIEW
     
139. 
     
     
140. Andriy Zholdak
     THEORY / LECTURES OF ANDRIY ZHOLDAK

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About the Author

Teresa Brayshaw is Principal Lecturer in Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University and works freelance as a Feldenkrais teacher, theatre practitioner and personal development coach in a range of international contexts. She co-edited the third edition of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader. Anna Fenemore is Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. She is also Artistic Director of Manchester-based Pigeon Theatre.Noel Witts is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, and a Professorial Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Tadeusz Kantor in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series, and co-editor of all three editions of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.