Böcker i Enactments - (Seagull Titles CHUP)-serien

First published in 2014 by Transcript with title, Performing Stories: Erzèahlen in Theater und Performance.

Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. This is a vivid and probing portrait of Fenley's four-decade career, written by her fellow artists. It offers several scholarly analyses of the choreographer's work, and is, above all, a vibrant record from the field.

From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the "Ramayana" and the "Mahabharata", war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. This work looks at theater and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities.

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The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil, turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. This volume presents a transnational and performance-centered approach to this character of fiestas, street festivals, and carnivals in North, Central, and South America.

How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of justice and reconciliation? This title provides a satisfying analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative, and memorialization.

How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? This title exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.

From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the years has invigorated contemporary global art movements. The author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us.

Explores the personal and political implications of Gilligan's account of pleasure and the human psyche.

Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala. This title describes many of the Muharram rituals that were exported to other lands over time. It explores the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals.

Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. This work explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle.