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• Author(s): Yana Meerzon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical con...

• Author(s): Jones Amelia • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, pr...

• Author(s): Sally Banes | Andre Lepecki • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sen...

• Author(s): Alex Flynn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectiv...

• Author(s): Don Greene • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Personal Growth - SuccessPerformance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highes...

• Author(s): Gary McPherson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Instruction & Study - GeneralThe two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicia...

• Author(s): Stewart T. Cotterill • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Applied PsychologyWhy is performing under pressure often so difficult? What strategies can help us deliver our best performance? How can we boost our...

• Author(s): Robert Henke • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThe actors of the commedia dell'arte (the sixteenth-century Italian professional theater) usually did not ...

• Author(s): Maria Grazia Sindoni • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collec...

• Author(s): Fintan Walsh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledge...

• Author(s): Clark Lunberry • Publisher: Anthem Press • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press • BISAC: GeneralA primary focus of this book is on the impact of time and memory as they intersect and constitute the spaces of theatre. These spaces include ...

• Author(s): Adam Vaughan • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDoing Documentary, Becoming Subjects explores a range of contemporary nonfiction films, inclu...

• Author(s): Ashutosh Potdar | Sharmistha Saha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsThis book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance’s relationship to the...

• Author(s): Julie Buckler • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionThroughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative ...

• Author(s): Mike Bourne • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Management - General"Companies can gain a real competitive advantage from managing their performance effectively. This book is bristling with ideas, tools and practic...

• Author(s): Anne Duncan • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismActors in the classical world were often viewed as frauds and impostors, capable of deliberately fabric...

• Author(s): Travis Brisini • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralPosthumanist Collaborations in Performance synthesizes and develops original posthumanist theories of performance to produce an approacha...

• Author(s): Paul Henry Lang | Alfred Mann | George J. Buelow • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: ReferenceArriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-...

• Author(s): Susan Foster • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Dance - General"This is an urgently needed book - as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains o...

• Author(s): Jeffrey M. Leichman • Publisher: Bucknell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bucknell University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismActing Up argues for the importance of theatrical acting to the development of modern...

• Author(s): Piggott | Ben • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThe Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and prov...

• Author(s): Jeffrey C. Alexander • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryPerformativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural s...

• Author(s): Stephen Drotter • Publisher: Jossey-Bass • Publisher Imprint: Jossey-Bass • BISAC: LeadershipThe guide that defines the results required at each organizational level to sustain business success It's not enough to build a company full...

• Author(s): Virginie Magnat • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - MimingThe Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdi...

• Author(s): J. Thompson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismPerformance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration...

• Author(s): R. Thorpe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Management - GeneralA new look at performance management that goes beyond discipline approaches and explores how we might integrate thinking through int...

• Author(s): David Stark • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK) • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorWhat's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On o...

• Author(s): Bernard Marr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Management - GeneralPerformance management is at the top of agendas in most government and public organizations, as well as many not-for-profit or...

• Author(s): Philip Lawton • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralFrom the Back CoverInvestment Performance Measurement Over the past two decades, the importance of measuring, presenting, and ...

• Author(s): Adam Arroyos • Publisher: Outskirts Press • Publisher Imprint: Outskirts Press • BISAC: LeadershipWhy Service Matters to your Performance. Too often, we are taught to grow our performance by acquiring new technical expertise and gain...

• Author(s): Justin Thompson • Publisher: WestBow Press • Publisher Imprint: WestBow Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe STAR model integrates intelligent planning with proactive doing to allow peak performance. Planning involves defining and ...

• Author(s): Chris Baker | Kate Everall | Franklin Hartle • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralTried-and-tested by specialist educational consultants Hay Management Consultants, this volume will help head teachers...

• Author(s): M. Tamra Chandler | Dave Ulrich • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Berrett-Koehler Publishers • BISAC: Management - GeneralRethink, Redesign, Reboot. Most people associate performance management with the an...

• Author(s): Susan Marshall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Focal Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismInsubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary ex...

• Author(s): Eilon Morris • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: GeneralRhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both ...

• Author(s): Anne Cremieux • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - GeneralHow does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look i...