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Resources

Here I share with you some of the books that have been relevant throughout my research process. ​​

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I will try to keep this up to date as I keep reading..

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  • Abramovic, M. (2016). Walk through walls.

  • Agamben, G. (2009). What is an apparatus? And other essays. Translated: Kishik, D. and Pedatella, S. California: Stanford University Press.

  • Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer Phenomenology Orientations, Objects, Others. Duke University Press.

  • Ashley, C. W. (1944). The Ashley Book of Knots.

  • Arendt, H. (1958). The Human Condition. The University of Chicago Press.

  • Bogart, A. (2001). A director prepares. Seven essays on art and theatre. Routledgde.

  • Calkins, N. A. (2018). Manual of Object-Teaching. With Illustrative Lessons in Methods and the Science of Education. Forgotten Books.

  • Cameron, J. (1992). The Complete Artist's Way. Creativity as a Spiritual Practice.

  • Cavarero, A. (1997). Relating Narratives. Storytelling and Selfhood. Routledge.

  • Cirkus Syd. (2020). Circus Thinks.

  • Defrantz, T. F., Rothfield, P. (2016). Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion (New World Choreographies).

  • Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and Repetition. Columbia University Press.

  • Edwards, D. (2018). Animal Moves.

  • Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. 

  • Ingold, T. (2013). Making. Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, and Architecture. London and New York: Routledge.

  • Ingold, T. (2016). The life of lines. A brief History. Routledge

  • Katan, E. (2016). Embodied Philosophy in Dance, Gaga and Ohad Naharin’s Movement Research. London: MacMillan Publishers Ltd.

  • Laban, R. (2011). Choreutics. (Ed.) Lisa Ullmann. Dance Book Ltd.

  • Lavers, K., Leroux, L. P., Burtt, J. (2020). Contemporary Circus. London and New York: Routledge. Lievens, B., Kann, S., Ketels, Q. and Focquet, V. (eds.) (2020). Thinking Through Circus. Art Paper Editions.

  • Lecoq, J. (2007). Theatre of Movement and Gesture. (Ed.) David Bradby. Routledge.

  • Lievens, B. (2015). First Open Letter to Circus: The Need to Redefine. https://e-tcetera.be/first-open- letter-to-the-circus-the-need-to-redefine/

  • Lievens, B. (2015). Second Open Letter to Circus: The Myth called Circus. https://e-tcetera.be/the- myth-called-circus/

  • Lievens, B., Ketels, Q., Kann, S., Focquet, V. (2020). Thinking Through Circus.

  • Manning, E. (2009). Relationscapes. Movement, Art, Philosophy. The MIT Press.

  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge.

  • Move: Netflix documentary by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai

  • Murakami, H. (2008) What I talk about when I talk about running. New York: Knopf

  • Murphy, L. (2018). Deconstructing the Spectacle: Aerial Performance as Critical Practice. University of Sheffield.

  • Nail, T. (2021) Theory of the objects. Edinburgh University Press.

  • Olsen, A. (1998). Bodystories. A guide o Experiential Anatomy. University Press of New England.

  • Pinchbeck, O., Declan, M. (2022). Notes on Creation - Perspectives from Contemporary Circus.

  • Priest, J. (2019). KNOTCIRCUS. University of Stockholm.

  • Profeta, K. (2015). Dramaturgy in Motion. At work on Dance and Movement Performance. The University of Wisconsin Press.

  • Robitaille, M-A. (2022), Circus as a Practice of Hope, forthcoming chapter in Posthumanism in Practice. ed. Daigle, Hayler. Bloomsbury Academics.

  • Spier, S. (2011). William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography. It starts from any point. Routledge.

  • Szekely, E. B. (1973). Creative Work. Karma Yoga: A Western Interpretation. International Biogenic Society.

  • Tait, P. (2005). Circus Bodies. Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. Routledge.

  • Whitehouse, Mary S, Janet Adler, Joan Chodorow, and Patrizia Pallaro. Authentic Movement. London: Philadelphia, 1999.

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