Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003163749
,
1003163742
,
9781000552409
,
1000552403
,
9781000552362
,
1000552365
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in the theatre & performance studies
Content:
Arts for all senses : circus and the avant-gardes : introduction / Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand -- A treasure trove for avant-garde artists? : metropolitan circus performances around 1900 / Mirjam Hildbrand -- Circus, Dada, Vaudeville : historical avant-garde : between popular and experimental theatre / Martina Gross -- 'Attractive novelties' : spectacular innovation and the making of a new kind of audience within colonial modernity / Martyn Jolly -- Typocircus and the Czech avant-gardes / Anne Hultsch -- The present as a trick or the assault on the spectator's psyche : circus and the Soviet avant-garde / Oksana Bulgakowa -- 'Like a three-ring circus' : the avant-garde appropriates the circus in the battle between distraction and attractions / Tom Gunning -- The animated circus and new arts of motion / Kristian Moen -- 'Glitter and broken bones' : professional wrestling, circus, avant-garde and the radical participatory body / Claire Warden -- Glam clowning : from Dada to Gaga : a conversation with Le Pustra / Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Le Pustra -- The aesthetics of queer work : Loïe Fuller's exhausting life as performance art in Stéphanie Di Giusto's The dancer (2016) / Wesley Lim -- Political clowns, thrilling strong women and animal-free excitement : circus reimagined through 1970s avant-garde political theatre / Jane Mullett and Peta Tait -- Avant-garde gestures and contemporaneity in today's circus / Louis Patrick Leroux -- 'Today for the last time'? : on the cultural meanings of circus and the avant-gardes : some final provocations / Mirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Aiden Essery.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367757281
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367757304
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367757281
Language:
English
