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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: URLs

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20230429061125/https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/

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Subjects

Explore content thematically through our carefully structured taxonomy, and reflect on fascinating new relationships between concept and content. All entries have been taken from Paul Allain’s and Jen Harvie’s Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (Routledge: London, 2006), and are edited by Maggie B. Gale, unless otherwise indicated.

Acting & Actor Training

The training of performers operates in a variety of ways according to the contexts for which they are being trained: through apprenticeships, specialist programmes, or arduous long-term commitment.

Actor Training subject list view — Acting & Actor Training

The training of performers operates in a variety of ways according to the contexts for which they are being trained: through apprenticeships, specialist programmes, or arduous long-term commitment.

Comedy

Comedy developed in opposition to tragedy and is generally intended to create laughter through the presentation of humorous dialogue or physical action, but more usually through a combination of both.

Comedy list view — Comedy

Comedy developed in opposition to tragedy and is generally intended to create laughter through the presentation of humorous dialogue or physical action, but more usually through a combination of both.

Dance

As a phenomenon, dance – like play or ritual – is vast in its potential frameworks and in encompassing a ubiquitous part of human and even animal behaviour, with multiple motivations and functions.

Dance subject list view — Dance

As a phenomenon, dance – like play or ritual – is vast in its potential frameworks and in encompassing a ubiquitous part of human and even animal behaviour, with multiple motivations and functions.

Form & Genre

Form and genre are terms that are often used interchangeably. While form is more often about structure, and genre is more to do with typology, forms and genres of theatre and performance vary widely.

Song list — Form & Genre

Form and genre are terms that are often used interchangeably. While form is more often about structure, and genre is more to do with typology, forms and genres of theatre and performance vary widely.

Performance Art / Live Art & Performance

Performance art – often called live art in the UK – is a live artistic practice that evolved as artists sought to extend art beyond conventional media. Much performance art is politically motivated.

Performance Art subject list — Performance Art / Live Art & Performance

Performance art – often called live art in the UK – is a live artistic practice that evolved as artists sought to extend art beyond conventional media. Much performance art is politically motivated.

Political Theatre & Performance

Arguably, all performance is political as it in some way reflects its political and social contexts. However, the term political theatre has specific roots in early 20th-century Europe and the US.

Political subject thumbnail — Political Theatre & Performance

Arguably, all performance is political as it in some way reflects its political and social contexts. However, the term political theatre has specific roots in early 20th-century Europe and the US.

Popular Theatre & Performance

Popular theatre embraces practices including melodrama, street theatre, circus, vaudeville, clowning and musicals. Historically, it encompasses both commercial and political theatre for the people.

Popular Theatre list view — Popular Theatre & Performance

Popular theatre embraces practices including melodrama, street theatre, circus, vaudeville, clowning and musicals. Historically, it encompasses both commercial and political theatre for the people.

Theatre-Making & Processes

The creation of a performance involves a process informed by method, aesthetic choice and economic context, as well as practical aspects which have little to do with the writer, performer or director.

Puppetry subject thumbnail — Theatre-Making & Processes

The creation of a performance involves a process informed by method, aesthetic choice and economic context, as well as practical aspects which have little to do with the writer, performer or director.

Practitioners

Browse the Archive through our list of practitioners, ranging from legendary figures to contemporary pioneers. Trace connections between individuals and entire movements, via specially commissioned biographies and peer-reviewed cross-referencing. All biographical information and video descriptions come direct from the practitioners themselves, unless otherwise stated.

Alfreds, Mike

Mike Alfreds is a director who has run companies in the US, Israel and the UK – including Shared Experience, which he founded in 1975 – and worked at theatres including the National and the RSC.

Mike Alfreds — Alfreds, Mike

Mike Alfreds is a director who has run companies in the US, Israel and the UK – including Shared Experience, which he founded in 1975 – and worked at theatres including the National and the RSC.

Athena Stourna

Athena teaches scenography and other theatre-related courses at various universities in Greece and Cyprus and has been a visiting fellow at the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) and at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

Athena Stourna — Athena Stourna

Athena teaches scenography and other theatre-related courses at various universities in Greece and Cyprus and has been a visiting fellow at the Casa de Velázquez (Madrid) and at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

Avra Sidiropoulou

Avra Sidiropoulou is Assistant Professor at the M.A. Program in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. She is Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company, and has worked internationally.

Avra Sidiropoulou — Avra Sidiropoulou

Avra Sidiropoulou is Assistant Professor at the M.A. Program in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. She is Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company, and has worked internationally.

Back to Back Theatre

Back to Back Theatre is a globally recognized Australian contemporary theatre company.

Back to Back Theatre — Back to Back Theatre

Back to Back Theatre is a globally recognized Australian contemporary theatre company.

Commentators

Dig deeper into the ideas and principles behind the documented work. Here, the practitioners themselves as well as leading scholars and critics provide invaluable context, together with concise critical interpretations and further reading.

Adam J. Ledger

Adam J. Ledger is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. Alongside his academic work he has directed in a variety of settings, including professional productions.

Ledger_thumbnail — Adam J. Ledger

Adam J. Ledger is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. Alongside his academic work he has directed in a variety of settings, including professional productions.

Alexia Kokkali

Alexia Kokkali is Programme Director of European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford, and also works as an actor.

Kokkali_Thumb — Alexia Kokkali

Alexia Kokkali is Programme Director of European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford, and also works as an actor.

Amie Dowling

Amie Dowling is Professor in the Performing Arts Department at the University of San Francisco.

Amie Dowling — Amie Dowling

Amie Dowling is Professor in the Performing Arts Department at the University of San Francisco.

Anatoly Smeliansky

Smeliansky lecture asset thmb — Anatoly Smeliansky

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