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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-443) and index.

Introduction/ Michael Huxley and Noel Witts -- 1. Interview/ Marina Abramovic -- 2. The speed of change/ Laurie Anderson -- 3. Actor, space, light, painting/ Adolph Appia -- 4. Theatre and cruelty/ Antonin Artaud -- 5. Post-modern dance/ Sally Banes -- 6. Words of presence/ Eugenio Barba -- 7. The grain of the voice/ Roland Barthes -- 8. Not how people move but what moves them/ Pina Bausch -- 9. Acting exercises/ Julian Beck -- 10. Quad/ Samuel Beckett -- 11. What is epic theatre?/ Walter Benjamin -- 12 The theatre as discourse/ Augusto Boal -- 13. Short description of a new technique in acting which produces an alienation effect/ Bertolt Brecht -- 14. The deadly theatre/ Peter Brook -- 15. Trisha Brown: an interview/ Trish Brown -- 16. Performative acts and gender constitution/ Judith Butler -- 17. Four statements on the dance/ John Cage -- 18. What is performance?/ Marvin Carlson -- 19. Current trends/ the director as partly actor/ Jacques Copeau -- 20. The actor and the uber-marionette/ Edward Gordon Craig -- 21. You have to love dancing to stick to it/ Merce Cunningham -- 22. The dancer of the future/ Isadora Duncan -- 23. On performance writing/ Tim Etchells -- 24. How to write a play/ Richard Foreman -- 25. Choreographing history/ Susan Leigh Foster -- 26. Performance art from futurism to the present/ Roselee Goldberg -- 27. Statement of principles/ Jerzy Grotwski -- 28. Man, once dead, crawl back!/ Tatsumi Hijikata -- 29. The art of making dances/ Doris Humphrey -- 30. Of the futility of the 'theatrical' in the theatre/ Alfred Jarry -- 31. A conversation/ Bill T. Jones -- 32. The theatre of death: a manifesto/ Tadeusz Kantor -- 33. Assemblages, environments and happenings/ Allan Kaprow -- 34. Interview/ Elizabeth LeCompte -- 35. Robert Lepage in discussion/ Robert Lepage -- 36. The founding and manifesto of futurism/ F.T. Marinetti -- 37. Characteristics of the modern dance/ John Martin -- 38. First attempts at a stylised theatre/ Vsevolod Meyerhold -- 39. 19 Answers by Heiner Muller/ Heiner Muller -- 40. Epic satire/ Erwin Piscator -- 41. A quasi survey of some 'minimalist' tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of Trio A/ Yvonne Rainer -- 42. How did Dada begin?/ Hans Richter -- 43. The five avant gardes or ... or none?/ Richard Schechner -- 44. Man and art figure/ Oskar Schlemmer -- 45. Theatre in African traditional cultures: survival patterns/ Wole Soyinka -- 46. Intonations and pauses/ Konstantin Stanislavski -- Interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg/ Stelarc -- 48. The philosophy of modern dance/ Mary Wigman -- 49. Argument: text and performance/ Raymond Williams -- 5. Interview/ Robert Wilson.