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.
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art
1st Edition
By Sylwia Dobkowska
January 29, 2024
This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance. Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of ...
Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain
1st Edition
By Meghan Moe Beitiks
January 29, 2024
How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist ...
Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming
1st Edition
By Niki Tulk
January 29, 2024
This book offers a matrixial, feminist-centered analysis of trauma and performance, through examining the work of three artists: Ann Hamilton, Renée Green, and Cecilia Vicuña. Each artist engages in a multi-media, or “combination” performance practice; this includes the use of site, embodied ...
Playwriting in Europe: Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
1st Edition
By Margherita Laera
January 29, 2024
This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is...
Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance: Spirit Bodies Moving
1st Edition
By 'H' Patten
January 29, 2024
This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual...
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage
1st Edition
By Amit Sarwal
January 29, 2024
The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed ...
Theatre and the Virtual: Genesis, Touch, Gesture
1st Edition
By Zornitsa Dimitrova
January 29, 2024
Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality. Creating a passage towards a reconstitution of the given, a theatre of the virtual opens bodies in motion to a region of an ongoing genesis of forces. The...
Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilli Bush-Bailey, Kate Flaherty
January 29, 2024
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus—removing ...
Włodzimierz Staniewski and the Phenomenon of “Gardzienice”
1st Edition
Edited
By S. E. Gontarski, Tomasz Wiśniewski, Katarzyna Kręglewska
January 29, 2024
This book offers a broad, comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution. Their most recent production, The Wedding, is taken as a focal point for a retrospective discussion on the company’s development. Premiered at the festival ...
Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance
1st Edition
Edited
By Noyale Colin, Catherine Seago, Kathryn Stamp
November 24, 2023
This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience. This volume draws together a range of critical voices...
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays
1st Edition
By L. Monique Pittman
September 25, 2023
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation’s story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus ...
360° Circus: Meaning. Practice. Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Franziska Trapp
June 01, 2023
This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a ...