The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader

Trisha Brown, Trisha Brown - an interview; Judith Butler, performative acts and gender constitution; John Cage, four statements on the dance; Marvin Carlson, what is performance?; Jacques Copeau, current trends/the director as partly actor; Edward Gordon Craig, the actor and the uber-marionette; Merce Cuningham, you have to love dancing to stick to it; Isadora Duncan, the dancer of the future; Tim Etchells, on performance writing; Richard Foreman, how to write a play; Susan Leigh Fister, choreographing history; Roselee Goldberg, performance art from futurism to the present; Jerzy Grotowski, statement of principle; Tatsumi Hijikata, man, once dead, crawl back!; Doris Humphrey, the art of making dances; Alfred Jarry, of the futility of the "theatrical" in theatre; Bill T. Jones, a conversation; Tadeusz Kantor, the theatre of death - a manifesto; Allan Kaprow, assemblages, environments and happenings; Elizabeth LeCompte, interview; Robert Lepage, Robert Lepage in discussion; F.T. Marinetti, the founding and manifesto of futurism; John Martin, characteristics of the modern dance; Vsevolod Meyerhold, first attempts at a stylized theatre; Heiner Muller, answers by Heiner Muller; Erwin Piscator, epic satire; Yvonne Rainer; Hans Richter, how did Dada begin?; Richard Schechner, the five avant gardes or none?; Oskar Schlemmer, man and art figure; Wole Soyinka, theatre in African traditional cultures - survival patterns; Konstantin Stanislavski, intonations and pauses; Stelarc, interview; Mary Wigman, the philosophy of modern dance; Raymond Williams, argument - text and performance; Robert Wilson, interview.