Teresa Brayshaw is Principal Lecturer in Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University and works freelance as a Feldenkrais teacher, theatre practitioner and personal development coach in a range of international contexts. She co-edited the third edition of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.

Anna Fenemore is Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. She is also Artistic Director of Manchester-based Pigeon Theatre.

Noel Witts is Emeritus Professor of Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, and a Professorial Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Tadeusz Kantor in the Routledge Performance Practitioners series, and co-editor of all three editions of The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader.

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In Dialogue...

Introduction

1. Action Hero

WHAT¿S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? GEMMA AND JAMES AND ACTION HERO

2. Mohammad Aghebati

INTERVIEW

3. Patricia Ariza
   INTERVIEW
4. Back to Back Theatre

ON MAKING THEATRE

5. Brett Bailey

INTERVIEW

6. Dalia Basiouny

PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: STORIES FROM TAHRIR

7. Jérôme Bel

INTERVIEW

8. Blast Theory

ULRIKE AND EAMON COMPLIANT: ARTISTS¿ STATEMENT

9. Tammy Brennan

CONFINED: STAGING/IMAGE MOMENTS

10. Tania Bruguera

INTERVIEW

11. Builders Association

MARIANNE WEEMS IN CONVERSATION WITH ELEANOR BISHOP

12. Liu Chengrui

A SELECTION OF ACTIONS

13. Padmini Chettur
    SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE
14. Constantin Chiriac

INTERVIEW

15. David Chisholm

THE MEMORY OF REMEMBERING: EXOMOLOGESIS AND EXAGOREUSIS IN THE EXPERIMENT

16. Clod Ensemble

CLOD ENSEMBLE: PERFORMING MEDICINE

17. María José Contreras

THE BODY OF MEMORY: MARIA JOSE CONTRERAS¿ PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN THE CHILEAN TRANSITION

18. Augusto Corriere

A CONJURING ACT IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW

19. Tim Crouch

INTERVIEW

20. Dah Theatre

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE QUALITY OF ATTENTION

21. Tess de Quincey

A FUTURE BODY

22. Derevo

ENDLESS DEATH SHOW

23. Dood Paard

ABOUT US

24. Every House Has A Door

FROM ONE MEANING TO ANOTHER

25. Eleonora Fabião

THINGS THAT MUST BE DONE SERIES

26. Oliver Frlji¿

INTERVIEW

27. Gecko

AN ORGANIC JOURNEY

28. GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN

MAKING THINGS WORSE

29. Gibson/Martelli

THE FIFTH WALL

30. Gob Squad

ON PARTICIPATION

31. Heiner Goebbels
    AESTHETIC OF ABSENCE: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
32. Chris Goode

THE CAT TEST

33. Shirotama Hitsujiya

INTERVIEW

34. Hotel Pro Forma

PERFORMANCE AS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE WORLD

35. Wendy Houstoun

SOME BODY AND NO BODY: THE BODY OF A PERFORMER

36. Imitating The Dog

THEATRICALISING CINEMA/SCREENING THEATRE

37. Hiwa K
    INTERVIEW
38. La Fura dels Baus

INTERVIEW

39. Lone Twin

INTERVIEW

40. Silvia Mercuriali

INTERVIEW

41. Monster Truck

BUT THE WHORES ALWAYS LOVED ME

42. Needcompany
    INTERVIEW
43. New Art Club

HOW WE SET OUT TO MAKE A PIECE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL WORKS OF ART AND ENDED UP GETTING NAKED AND TALKING ABOUT HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OUR BODIES

44. Kira O¿Reilly

THE ART OF KIRA O¿REILLY

45. Oblivia

TIME STOPPER

46. Toshiki Okada

INTERVIEW

47. Ontroerend Goed

PERSONAL TRILOGY: THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE, INTERNAL & GAME OF YOU

48. Mike Pearson

BUBBLING TOM

49. Michael Pinchbeck

THIS IS A LOVE LETTER

50. Punchdrunk

INTERVIEW

51. Silviu Purc¿rete

WHERE ARE YOUR TRAINING GROUNDS?

52. Quarantine

A SHOW OF HANDS

53. Reckless Sleepers

"MIDDLES" & "PHYSICS"

54. Ridiculusmus

A CHAT ABOUT COMEDY

55. Rimini Protokoll

INTERVIEW

56. Farah Saleh

INTERVIEW

57. Peter Sellars
    INTERVIEW
58. Shunt

A PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE

59. Agata Siniarska

DO IT TO ME LIKE IN A REAL MOVIE: LECTURE PERFORMANCE

60. Deepan Sivaraman

INTERVIEW

61. Sleepwalk Collective

LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, OR ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE A SHOW IS A GIRL AND A MICROPHONE

62. Andy Smith

THIS IS IT: NOTES ON A DEMATERIALISED THEATRE

63. Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

THE THEATRE IS NOT OUR HOME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT SPACE, STAGE AND AUDIENCE

64. Junnosuke Tada
    INTERVIEW
65. Third Angel
    TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
66. Ultima Vez
    INTERVIEW
67. Unlimited
    AM I DEAD YET?
68. Sankar Venkateswaran
    THEATRE OF THE MIND
69. Dries Verhoeven
    INTERVIEW
70. Vincent Dance Theatre
    THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK / MOTHERLAND
71. Aaron Williamson
    DEMONSTRATING THE WORLD ¿ A PUBLIC INTERVENTION PERFORMANCE
72. Xing Xin
    INTERVIEW
73. Andriy Zholdak
    THEORY / LECTURES OF ANDRIY ZHOLDAK

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