The twentieth-century performance reader / edited by Michael Huxley and Noel Witts.

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Introduction / Michael Huxley & Noel Witts. --Interview / Marina Abramovic. --The speed of change / Laurie Anderson. --Actor, space, light, painting / Adolph Appia. --Theatre and cruelty / Antonin Artaud. --Post-modern dance / Sally Banes. --Words or presence / Eugenio Barba. -- The grain of the voice / Roland Barthes. --Not how people move but what moves them / Pina Bausch. --Acting exercises / Julian Beck. -- Quad / Samuel Beckett. --What is epic theatre? / Walter Benjamin. --The theatre as discourse / Augusto Boal. --Short description of a new technique in acting which produces an alienation effect / Bertolt Brecht. --The deadly theatre / Peter Brook. --Trisha Brown: an interview / Trisha Brown. --Performance acts and gender constitution / Judith Butler. --Four statements on the dance / John Cage. --What is performance? / Marvin Carlson. --Current trends/the director as partly actor / Jacques Copeau. --The actor and the u?ber-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig. --You have to love dancing to stick to it / Merce Cunningham. --The dancer of the future / Isadora Duncan. --On performance writing / Tim Etchells. --How to write a play / Richard Foreman. --Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster. --Performance art from futurism to the present / Roselee Goldberg. --Statement on principles / Jerzy Grotowski. --Man, once dead, crawl back! / Tatsumi Hijikata. --The art of making dances / Doris Humphrey. --Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in theatre / Alfred Jarry. --A conversation / Bill T. Jones. --The theatre of death: a manifesto / Tadeusz Kantor. --Assemblages, environments and happenings / Allan Kaprow. --Interview / Elizabeth LeCompte. -- Robert Lepage in discussion / Robert Lepage. --The founding and manifesto of futurism / F.T. Marinetti. --Characteristics of the modern dance / John Martin. --First attempts at a stylised theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold. --19 answers by Heiner Mu?ller / Heiner Muller. --Epic satire / Erwin Piscator. --A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysisof Trio A / Yvonne Rainer. --How did Dada begin? / Hans Richter. --The five avant gardes or... or none? / Richard Schechner. -- Man and art figure / Oskar Schlemmer. --Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns / Wole Soyinka. --Intonations and pauses / Konstantin Stanislavski. --Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg / Stelarc. --The philosophy of modern dance / Mary Wigman. --Argument: text and performance / Raymond Williams. --Interview / Richard Wilson.