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Toni Sant, ed. Documenting Performance: The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xxiii + 362. $104.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

This volume begins with a list of illustrations (x), tables, (xi), contributors (xii–xx), acknowledgments (xxi–xxiii), and an introduction by the editor (1–12). The primary text includes essays in four parts, each with opening comments by the editor. Part 1, "Contexts for Documenting Performance," includes: Daniela Salazar, "Performance Arts and Their Memories" (19–28); Alberto Pendón Martínez and Gema Bueno de la Fuente, "Description Models for Documenting Performance" (29–46); Jeanine Rizzo, "Intellectual Property Matters for Documenting Performance: Challenges and Current Trends" (47–60); Annet Decker, Gabriella Giannachi, and Vivian van Saaze, "Expanding Documentation, and Making the Most of the 'Cracks in the Wall'" (61–78). Part 2, "Ways of Documenting Performance," includes: Panayiota A. Demetriou, "Remembering Performance Through the Practice of Oral History" (83–92); Helen Newall, Amy Skinner, and Allan Taylor, "Translating Performance: Desire, Intention and Interpretation in Photographic Documents" (93–112); Joanna Bucknall and Kirsty Sedgman, "Documenting Audience Experience: Social Media as Lively Stratification" (113–30); Vanessa Bartlett, "Web Archiving and Participation: The Future History of Performance?" (131–48); Adam Nash and Laurene Vaughan, "Documenting Digital Performance Artworks" (149–60). Part 3, "From Documents to Documenting," includes: Daisy Abbot and Claire Read, "Paradocumentation and NT Lives's 'CumberHamlet'" (165–88); Alvin Eng Hui Lim, "Thinking Virtually in a Distracted Globe: Archiving Shakespeare in Asia" (189–202); Miguel Escobar Varela, "From Copper-Plate Inscriptions to Interactive Websites: Documenting Javanese Wayang Theatre" (203–14); Cat Hope, Adam Trainer, and Lelia Green, "Archiving Western Australian New Music Performance" (215–26); Laurene Vaughan, "Participation and Presence: Propositional Frameworks for Engaging Users in the Design of the Circus Oz Living Archive" (227–38). Part 4, "Documenting Bodies in Motion," includes: Ben Spatz, "What do we Document? Dense Video and the Epistemology of Practice" (241–52); Alissa Clarke, "Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Trainings" (253–70); Laura Griffiths, "Dance Archival Futures: Embodied Knowledge and the Digital Archive of [End Page 246] Dance" (271–82); Sarah Whatley, "Documenting Dance: Tools, Frameworks and Digital Transformation" (283–304). The volume concludes with notes (305–22), a bibliography (323–50), and an index (351–62).

Barbara Simonsen, ed. The Art of Rehearsal: Conversations with Contemporary Theatre Makers. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. x + 249. $94.00 cloth, $31.95 paper.

This volume begins with a list of illustrations (vi), acknowledgments (vii), a preface by Paul Allain (viii–x), and an introduction: "No one's ever asked me that," by the editor (1–10). The primary text includes the editor's interviews with the following theatre makers: Annabel Arden (11–32); Eugenio Barba (33–46); Jérôme Bel (47–58); Rachel Chavkin (59–70); Kirsten Dehlholm (71–80); Maxine Doyle (81–94); Jan Fabre (95–104); Richard Foreman (105–12); Heiner Goebbels (113–20); Helgard Haug (121–32); Bojan Jablanovec (133–44); Elizabeth LeCompte (145–56); Richard Lowdon (157–70); Soheil Parsa (171–82); Diane Paulus (183–96); Catherine Poher (197–212); Berit Stumpf and Sean Patten (213–28); Wayn Traub (229–42). The text concludes with notes on contributors (243–44), an appendix of interview dates and translators (245–46), and an index (247–49).

Jozefina Komporaly, ed. András Visky's Barrack Dramaturgy: Memories of the Body. Intellect: Bristol, 2017. Pp xvii + 313. $33.00.

This volume begins with acknowledgments (vii–viii), a preface, "In Search of Lost Reality," by András Visky (ix–xvii), and two introductory texts: Jozephina Komporaly, "'Each Text is a New Beginning': Refigurations of History, Remembrance and Liberation in András Visky's Theatre" (1–22), and András Visky, "Barrack Dramaturgy and the Captive Audience" (23–30). The primary text includes essays in three parts followed by interviews. Part 1 includes: Jozephina Komporaly, "Introduction to Juliet: Confinement as Embodied Experience in András Visky's Juliet (33–44); András Visky, Juliet: A Dialogue about Love (45–110); Juliet (original title: Júlia): Production History (111–18); Jeremy D. Knapp, "Juliet in Korea: A Pedagogical Perspective" (119–28...

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