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.
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and the Moscow Art Theatre
1st Edition
By Inna Solovyova
March 11, 2025
This is an authorized translation of Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow, 1979) by Inna Solovyova, historian, author, and senior researcher of the Moscow Art Theatre Archives. Untranslated before now, it is the only comprehensive account of the life and work of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), ...
The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art
1st Edition
By T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon
February 28, 2025
The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective. Edited by T. J. Bacon (she/they) and Chelsea Coon (she/her), this...
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power
1st Edition
By Artemis Preeshl
February 20, 2025
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare’s classical Mediterranean plays. This classical sequel explores how female-identified, ...
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
1st Edition
By Katerina Paramana
February 18, 2025
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds. Performance works, however, can offer ...
The Dancer's Handbook: A Practical Guide to Reimagining Dance, Body, and Society by OFEN Co-Arts
1st Edition
By Gala Moody, Michael Carter
February 13, 2025
The Dancer’s Handbook offers a holistic exploration of the dance industry's challenges, authored by dancers intimately familiar with its complexities. This comprehensive resource tackles themes like power dynamics, hierarchical structures, and the pervasive influences of capitalism, patriarchy, and...
Performing Climates
1st Edition
By Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens
February 04, 2025
Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs ...
Butoh, as Heard by a Dancer
1st Edition
By Dominique Savitri Bonarjee
January 30, 2025
This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach. The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto, Masaki Iwana, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Suzuki, ...
Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Lisa Moravec
January 30, 2025
The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics ...
Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era
1st Edition
By Kristin Hunt
January 30, 2025
This book examines historical and contemporary activist alimentary performance with an eye toward, or perhaps a taste for, what these performance modes can reveal about changing relationships between the senses, truth, justice, and ethical action amid the post-truth era’s destabilization of shared ...
Choreographing the North: Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking
1st Edition
By Bridget Cauthery
December 30, 2024
Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North." The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined ...
Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India
1st Edition
By Sarah Saddler
December 30, 2024
This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning. Drawing on a decade of research with artists, consultancies, drama schools, and multinational firms in India and across the Global South, Sarah Saddler provides a ...
Tragic Resistance: Feminist Agency in Performance
1st Edition
By Megan Shea
December 30, 2024
Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them. The artists in this book work against the tragic narratives that would otherwise constrict them: the tragedy of Antigone unmade by Judith ...