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Warden, Claire

 
9780748681556: Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: An Introduction
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ISBN 10: 0748681558 ISBN 13: 9780748681556
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

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The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performance

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Claire Warden is is Professor of Performance and Physical Culture at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary modernism, performance practices and the intersection of sport and art. She is the author of three monographs, including the British Academy-funded Migrating Modernist Performance: British Theatrical Travels through Russia. She is also the founder and academic lead of the Arts Council-funded Wrestling Resurgence project and a past chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies.



Claire Warden is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. She is the author of British Avant-Garde Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

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The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performanceThis textbook introduces the reader to modernist avant-garde theatre. It clearly explains the key terms as well as the major movements, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Futurism, Workers’ theatres, Constructivism and the Living Newspaper, and Mass Performance, using a case study approach. It introduces the important innovations of the modernist avant-garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, and provides examples of plays and performances from across Europe and America. There are also chapters on The Modernist Body and on Interdisciplinary Performance. The book approaches the modernist avant-garde both as an area of academic study and as potential raw material for contemporary performance.Key Features•The first introductory guide to the modernist theatrical avant-garde•Includes case studies, practical exercises at the end of each chapter, an annotated bibliography and a glossary of performance terms•Includes links to performance-based explorations of theatrical techniques•Provides a springboard for further independent study, both theoretical and practicalClaire Warden is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. Her research focuses primarily on constructing new, fluid narratives for modernist performance. She is the author of British Avant-Garde Theatre (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), and multiple journal articles and book chapters on modernism, interdisciplinarity, theatre, art and cultural studies.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748681558
ISBN 13 
9780748681556
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
169
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