Sing, Dance & Scream: publications for progressive performers

John Giorno: The Performative Word - Mousse Publishing

Learn from a legend with John Giorno: The Performative Word – the first monograph dedicated to the American artist, poet, and activist John Giorno. Combining poetry, performance, painting, and political activism into his work over the course of more than six decades, this seminal artist worked as a conduit between the Beats, Andy Warhol’s Factory, punk music, queer counterculture, and anti-war activism movements of the 1960s and beyond. By bringing the written word off the page and into performance, technology, and visual art, Giorno consistently challenged disciplinary boundaries and advanced a radical vision of language as central to human expression.

Radical Rediscoveries: Performance Texts from the Women’s Theatre Movement 1969-1987 - Montez Press

Looking for your voice, but don’t know where to start? Try Radical Rediscoveries: Performance Texts from the Women’s Theatre Movement 1969-1987, a collection bringing together six seminal works of British alternative feminist and women’s theatre from the archive. The collection contains a contextual introductory text by Dr. Susan Croft, co-founder of Unfinished Histories - a project to gather the oral histories and preserve the archive of the vital alternative theatre movement in Britain from around 1968 to the early 90s.

Reperto 4, Merda! Merda! Merda!

For Progetto Reperto, performance is a game: dressing up, having fun and sometimes overdoing it. In Reperto 4, Merda! Merda! Merda! they explore theatre: the style, the stage, and its many characters. In every theatre, there is a moment when something reveals itself not through spectacle, but through a slight displacement. This issue begins from the intuition that theatre, before it is representation, is an ensemble of subtle disclosures.

Some Monologues - Tyler Coburn

If you prefer to work alone, Some Monologues by Tyler Coburn is for you. Working at the nexus of performance, art writing, and fiction, the writer creates monologues that explore how the “I” is marked in speech. Accompanying the collection are texts by eleven artists, writers, curators, and scholars who experienced these performances firsthand, collaborated in their making, conversed with the artist about them, or share an interest in the subjects they engage. Written in theoretical, poetic, and autobiographical registers, these contributions offer new perspectives on the monologue as an expansive and relational form.

Lolita Danse - Mess / Mestiza Estudio

Leap into the archives and experience dance experimentation at its finest with Lolita Danse – a kaleidoscopic collection of images and writing from the eponymous Paris-based performance collective formed in 1981. Fusing dance, music, lighting, and costumes in a dazzling experiment that blurred the boundaries between stage and life, dancer and choreographer, performance and play, the multidisciplinary collective wrote an important chapter for 1980s French dance, bringing performative collaboration to life and pushing the choreographic form to its limits.

Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals - Mousse Publishing

From the stage to the psyche, Le Nemesiache: Reclaiming Mythological Rituals follows the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists’ group in the first monograph following their experimental artistic practice. Immersing you in a world rooted in feminism, mythology, folktales, sci-fi, and radical imagination, while also introducing “transfeminism” in the early ’80s, the group retrieved an androgynous mythosophy to transcend art as mere representation and challenge the feminine as a modern identity category. Exploring practices of film, performance, writing, rituals, poetry, music, collage, costumes, protests, and conferences, the group emulated cosmological creativity and justice through mythological rituals.

A Dance Mag - Issue 05: Flow

Dance is communal! And in A Dance Mag - Issue 05: Flow it transcends differences, distances, and disciplines to tell the stories of people from all over the world, who are dancing their lives and giving their bodies a voice. From Gabriel Semerene's meditations on faith and protest across Gaza and Brazil to Nerda Khara's navigation of societal constraints in Pakistan, these pieces explore how movement becomes both resistance and surrender. Here, flow is a state of movement, political current, and a surrender.

Movement Research Performance Journal #62: We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers

Biannual publication Movement Research Performance Journal has been providing a unique forum for critical, rigorous, and creative exploration of the politics of performance, since its inception in 1990. In their most recent issue, MRPJ #62: We Exist in the Ambivalence of Those Motherfuckers, they respond to the fiftieth anniversary of the ‘end’ of the Vietnam War by exploring the landscape of contemporary Vietnamese performance art. For their contributors living and working in Vietnam, writing became a practice of choreographing words within a political landscape where to speak publicly, is in itself, a performance of negotiated risk.

34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste (2026 Edition) - Jónas Sen

Emulate one of the world’s most transgressive icons, with 34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste, being the first ever sheet music published by pop legend Björk. The scorebook includes selections from Debut, Post, Homogenic, Selmasongs, Vespertine, Medúlla, Björk's Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack, Volta and Vulnicura, and reimagines what can be achieved with traditional sheet music. Pair with Cornucopia, for a full immersion into to mind of a performance legend.

i’m a woman, yr a machine - Eva Michon

If your style is more moshing, moving, jumping around a bit and headbanging, try i’m a woman, yr a machine - a photographic record of seminal dance-punk sensation Death From Above 1979 during their formative years, 2001 to 2004. In this collection of intimate images, fans grip the stage, styled in sweaty t-shirts and headful’s of hair, whilst the band close in; performer and audience synthesizing in musical symbiosis.