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Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (Theater in the Americas) by Bertie Ferdman is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
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Honorable Mention, ATHE's 2018 Outstanding Book Award Contextualizing the techniques and methods of the incredibly rich and vital genre of site-specific performance, author Bertie Ferdman traces the evolution of that term. Originally used for experimental staging practices and then later also for engaged situational events, site-specific is no longer sufficient for the genre’s many contemporary variations. Using the term off-site, Ferdman illustrates five distinct ways artists have challenged th
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- Author
- Bertie Ferdman
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809334711
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- History, Sports, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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