Browsing by Research Institute "Institute of Drama, Dance and Performance Studies"

Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London

Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare’s London explores the vital relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history, considering some of the key factors shaping ...

Advance Error by Error, with Erring Steps”: Embracing and Exploring Mistakes and Failure Across the Psychophysical Performer Training Space and the Page

Clarke, Alissa (Article)

Africanist choreography as cultural citizenship: Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø’s philosophy of Africana dance.

Adewole, Funmi (Book chapter)

This essay addresses how Africanist choreography operates as a practice of cultural citizenship, focussing on the work of Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø as a leading figure in shaping the cultural sphere for choreography based on ...

An allusion to a provincial play performance in the memorandum book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby in 1618.

Keenan, Siobhan (Article)

Alone into the world: reflections on solos from 1919 by Vaslav Nijinsky and Mary Wigman.

Burt, Ramsay, 1953- (Book chapter)

“Am I Providing a Good Show for You?” Female Performance, Labor and Collaborative Agency in Niki de Saint Phalle and Peter Whitehead's Daddy (1973)

Clarke, Alissa (Article)

French artist, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and British counter-culture filmmaker, Peter Whitehead’s underground film collaboration, Daddy (1973), is a sexually explicit surrealist pop art Freudian rape revenge fantasy. It stems ...