Performing Arts category: 25753 books

This pivot offers an innovative, trans-local perspective on performance studies in the era of digital technology, considering a range of content from theater to opera, film, dance, and musical theatre. It examines theatre performing arts and film in terms of aesthetics, gender studies, and identity...

Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born black classical actor's itinerary on his first Continental tour. Starting in Brussels and following Aldridge up the Rhine to Basel, on to Berlin and Vienna,...

Questo libro raccoglie, tradotti per la prima volta fuori dalla Francia, gli articoli scritti da Martin Scorsese per una delle più autorevoli riviste di cinema del mondo (e in particolare quelli realizzati per il numero 500, di cui Scorsese è stato curatore), nonché interviste e conversazioni finora...

Graeae is a force for change in world-class theatre, placing D/deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challenging preconceptions. A Work in Progress contains the full script of Reasons to be Cheerful, a brief history of the company, analysis and extracts from their previous shows, memories...

With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her movie, Zero Dark Thirty, which is about the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. She is one of Hollywood’s...

'Keeping the Dream Alive' is a unique and intriguing memoir charting the life and times of how someone growing up on the wrong side of the tracks in a very poor working class environment in post-War Britain was able to journey to the glittering arena of Hollywood, providing an inspirational insight...

Craig Chester's witty and wry observations on his life and those who have occupied it come together to create this funny, sentimental, yet irreverent collection of essays. From the backroads of Texas to the boardrooms of Hollywood, Craig Chester is unabashedly honest about the pain and the unique...

Acting is defined as a dramatic representation on stage. In his Poetics, Aristotle also defines drama as an imitation of an action. These definitions clearly place drama in the category of performing arts. Watching a play is usually a pleasurable experience, and is a form of recreation, it may also...

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them. Benefiting from tendencies...

Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music. Understanding how music enables the theatre experience helps to shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Beginning with a discussion on the origin and nature of time,...

Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art...

Love, Please is a memoir of a timeless love story between a man and a woman from opposite sides of the world. They meet in Tokyo when she is there on tour, and each immediately realizes they are soul-mates. Their story unfolds over a period of seventeen years, from the mid seventies to the early nineties,...

Autobiographie d'une des plus grandes icônes de la télévision des années 1980Tout le monde connaît ce monstre orange aux allures de Candide. Icône inoubliable de toute une génération, il a su faire rêver et éduquer de nombreux enfants, aujourd’hui pour la plupart quadragénaires. Mais qui se cache réellement sous ce costume de dinosaure ?

Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and interviews to recreate the evolution of nine...