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The Family Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.62 — 33,328 ratings — published 2011
Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 473 ratings — published 1979
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.55 — 22,365 ratings — published 2016
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 240 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,621,312 ratings — published 2022
Activities of Daily Living (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 998 ratings — published 2022
Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,069 ratings — published 2019
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 142 ratings — published 1993
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 1994
Sanford Meisner on Acting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,327 ratings — published 1987
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 35 ratings — published 1998
Angry Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 820 ratings — published 1991
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,233 ratings — published 2002
When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.44 — 277 ratings — published 2008
Performance: Live Art Since the '60s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 4.06 — 62 ratings — published 2004
Postdramatic Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as performance-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 318 ratings — published 1999
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,400 ratings — published 1992
Northanger Abbey: An Audible Original Drama (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 809 ratings — published 2017
Angels in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,640 ratings — published 1991
This Modern Love Now: On Dating, Relationships and Love - From the #1 Bestselling Author (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.47 — 30 ratings — published
The Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1989
Andre Cadere : all walks of life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1992
Piero Manzoni (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1989
Mujeres Artistas de Los Siglos XX y XXI (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Trapped (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,460 ratings — published
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,998 ratings — published 1989
Being and Doing: A Workbook for Actors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 1979
Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 57 ratings — published 2011
Improvisation for the Theater (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 715 ratings — published 1963
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 99,300 ratings — published 2023
Acting for the Camera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 446 ratings — published 1986
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,725 ratings — published 1997
The Actor and the Target (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,170 ratings — published 2000
The Empty Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,034 ratings — published 1968
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 64 ratings — published 2007
An Actor Prepares (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,310 ratings — published 1936
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published
Respect for Acting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,601 ratings — published 1973
The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 1997
Spoon River Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,765 ratings — published 1915
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.37 — 771 ratings — published 2003
Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 281 ratings — published 2003
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,724 ratings — published 2017
The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 952 ratings — published 2008
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.36 — 443 ratings — published
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,663 ratings — published 2025
Canticle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 7,331 ratings — published 2025
Moriarty: The Great Chaos (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 335 ratings — published
The Patchwork Players: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel – A Heartwarming Women's Fiction Story of Friendship, Career Choices, and a Quilting Retreat (The Elm Creek Quilts Series, 24)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,564 ratings — published
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 1 time as performance-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,414 ratings — published 1936
“I'm like a circus standing on two legs.”
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“Girl dancer! Oh you shifting
Of all that passes into steps: how you manage that!
And the eddy at the end, a tree made from a vortex,
Does it not take full possession of the swirling year?
And the tip of your tree, does it not blossom
Quietly above you, from your spinning? Is it not
Your limitless warmth, the sun,
The summer, its heat?
But your tree of ecstasy bears,
Gives quiet fruit: the flagon streaked with ripeness,
And the vase riper still.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
Of all that passes into steps: how you manage that!
And the eddy at the end, a tree made from a vortex,
Does it not take full possession of the swirling year?
And the tip of your tree, does it not blossom
Quietly above you, from your spinning? Is it not
Your limitless warmth, the sun,
The summer, its heat?
But your tree of ecstasy bears,
Gives quiet fruit: the flagon streaked with ripeness,
And the vase riper still.”
― Sonnets to Orpheus
