Art Into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents

Art Into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents
ISBN-10
1134370539
ISBN-13
9781134370535
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
281
Language
English
Published
2013-11-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Nick Kaye

Description

Art Into Theatre investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over 80 pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion. Ranging from the austerity of Cage's 4'33" through the inter-species communication of Schneeman's Cat Scanand the experimental theatre work of Schechner, Foreman, and Kirby, to the recent performances of Abramovic, Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group, Art Into Theatre offers a fascinating collection of perspectives on the destabilizing of conventional ideas of the art "object" and the theatrical "text". Nick Kaye's introductory essay to the volume offers a useful context for the reader and each interview is preceded by an informative biographical sketch.

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