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This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

This project collects the most significant historical inventions, artists, and movements that have contributed to the development of Live Visuals

This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre's capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced.

This volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and performances in South India. It is themed around heritage, everyday life, and future ecologies, will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, heritage studies, ecology, and art history.

This book presents a range of approaches to the study of Old Norse poetry in performance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of Old Norse studies, Performance and Theatre History.

This book is the result of a collaborative and transdisciplinary effort towards a first definition of "dance data", with its complexities and contradictions, in a time where cognitive science is growing in parallel to the need of a renewed awareness of the body¿s agency in our manyfold interactions with the world.

Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic.

This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today.

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.

This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell'Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre.

This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security.

ASHÉ Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.

Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.

This book offers a broad overview of the contemporary state of the Gardzienice theatrical company and its evolution. It promises to be of great interest to students and scholars across the fields of theatre and performance studies.

In Staging and Re-cycling, John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and re-appraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking.

This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies.

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas¿from Canada to the Southern Cone.

'Dramaturgies of Interweaving' explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance and other arts.