Editing Performance art (section)

=== The Living Theatre ===
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[[File:The Living Theatre - The Brig, 1. May 2008.jpg|thumb|The Living Theatre presenting their work ''The Brig'' in Myfest 2008 in Berlin-Kreuzberg]]

Indirectly influential for art-world performance, particularly in the United States, were new forms of theatre, embodied by the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Living Theatre and showcased in Off-Off Broadway theaters in SoHO and at La MaMa in New York City. The Living Theatre is a theater company created in 1947 in New York. It is the oldest [[experimental theatre]] in the United States.<ref>Beck, J., ''El Living Theatre'', Madrid, Fundamentos, 1974, pag. 255</ref> Throughout its history it has been led by its founders: actress [[Judith Malina]], who had studied theatre with [[Erwin Piscator]], with whom she studied [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s and [[Meyerhold]]'s theory; and painter and poet [[Julian Beck]]. After Beck's death in 1985, the company member Hanon Reznikov became co-director along with Malina. Because it is one of the oldest random theatre or live theatre groups nowadays, it is looked upon by the rest.{{clarify|date=October 2020}} They understood theatre as a way of life, and the actors lived in a community under libertary{{clarify|date=October 2020}} principles. It was a theatre campaign dedicated to transformation of the power organization of an authoritarian society and hierarchical structure. The Living Theatre chiefly toured in Europe between 1963 and 1968, and in the U.S. in 1968. A work of this period, ''Paradise Now'', was notorious for its audience participation and a scene in which actors recited a list of social taboos that included nudity, while disrobing.<ref>Beck, J., ''El Living Theatre'', Madrid, Fundamentos, 1974, pag.102</ref>

[[File:Fluxus manifesto.jpg|left|thumb|Fluxus manifesto]]