Publishing almost 100 print editions in the period 1989-2012, Total Theatre Magazine covered 25 years of UK and international performance. Its remit was physical and visual work – encompassing mime, puppetry, street arts, circus, site-specific performance, movement theatre, and other disciplines at a time when such work was on the outskirts of the cultural field.

Whether it’s a mime troupe’s vivid account of giving a private performance for Salvador Dali and his retinue at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, the novelist Russell Hoban remembering his work on the legendary performance The Carrier Frequency, or a captured moment like the brutal climax to Marina Abramovic’s Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim in New York, the archive is a testament to the hundreds of companies and thousands of practitioners who brought new ideas to the language of performance.