Book Reviews:

 

• We will publish reviews of books relevant to performance in general, with specific interest in Performance-as-Research, Performing Arts, Performance Philosophy, Performance and Technology, and Performance Studies, broadly construed. 

• Book reviews should be 400-750  words and follow the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition Endnote Format.

• The review heading should include: the author, book title in italics, publisher, publication date, page count (including front matter), and purchase price for all available formats, followed by the reviewer’s name and affiliation.

Publishers should contact with the subject line “Books for Review” or send materials to Amanda Rose Villarreal, Managing Editor, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Colorado, 261 UCB, Boulder, CO 80302.

Books currently available for review are listed below. If you are interested in reviewing a text not listed, please contact with your book proposal.

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Radical Doubt: The Joker System, after Boal

by Mady Schutzman

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Staging Process: The Aesthetic Politics of Collective Performance

by Rachel Anderson-Rabern

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Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research

by Ben Spatz

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Teaching Post-Dramatic Theatre: Anxieties, Aporias, and Disclosures

by Glenn D'Cruz

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Beyond Text: Learning Through Arts-Based Research

edited by Jeff Adams and Allen Owens

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Audience as Performer: The Changing Role of Theatre Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

by Caroline Heim

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Performed Ethnography and Communication: Improvisation and Embodied Experience

by D. Soyini Madison

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Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre

edited by Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Caitlin McClure

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Applied Theatre: Working With Youth

edited by Lisa Brenner, Chris Ceraso, and Evelyn Diaz Cruz

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Theory and Methods for Public Pedagogy Research

by Karen Charman and Mary Dixon

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Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts

edited by Ross W. Prior

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Redefining Theatre Communities: International Perspectives on Community-Conscious Theatre-Making

edited by Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca

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Drama-Based Pedagogy: Activating Learning Across the Curriculum

by Katie Dawson and Bridget Kiger Lee

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Syrian Refugees, Applied Theatre, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories

by Fadi Skeiker

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Theatre, Vols 1 & 2

by Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed

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Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa

by Alexandra Halligey

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Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance

by Julia M. Ritter

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Theatre and Performance in the Neoliberal University: Responses to an Academy in Crisis

edited by Kim Solga

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