Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Performing (for) Survival
Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground – is employed as a mechanism for survival....
Performing Processes
Creating Live Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels...
The Artistic Edge
7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The Artistic Edge explores why leadership skills taught through the arts are what young people need most to be successful in life. Competition for jobs is fierce and the current state of the world requires an ability to constantly adapt to change. Is the coming generation ready to face the realities...
Experiencing Dance
From Student to Dance Artist
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist, Second Edition, takes off where its previous edition—a best-selling high school text for students enrolled in dance classes—left off. Geared to students in dance II, III, and IV classes, this text places teachers in the role of facilitator and...
Long-Form Improv
The Complete Guide to Creating Characters, Sustaining Scenes, and Performing Extraordinary Harolds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Long-Form Improv deftly teaches the wildly popular form of improvisation that is so foundational to the comedy stylings of many of today’s top actors and thriving comedians. Crammed with innovative ideas for conceptualizing improvised scenework and “finding the game of the scene,” this crisply...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Performing Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Before his mysterious murder in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini had become famous—and infamous—not only for his groundbreaking films and literary works but also for his homosexuality and criticism of capitalism, colonialism, and Western materialism. In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship, Gian...
Stage Combat Arts
An Integrated Approach to Acting, Voice and Text Work + Video
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over. This book details many of the foundational techniques used by actors studying stage combat and actor-movement disciplines. A variety of specific training exercises are described that connect the actor's imagination...
by Lolita Lark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The first issue of our magazine came out in 1985, and we switched to an online edition in 1995. Our reviews have been denounced by the famous and the infamous. Ron Butler wrote "What kind of idiots do you have writing book reviews?" Jim Finkenaur said that our review of a book about West Point was...
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
by Bill Palmer, Karen Palmer, Ric Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Now in Paperback! Early in 1971, Five Fingers of Death premiered in a New York movie theater. This was America's first look at a Chinese martial arts movie. In Chicago that same year, Duel of the Iron Fist debuted. With the release of Bruce Lee's films, the market exploded. And thus began America's...
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game
A New Performing Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Many of today’s hottest selling games—both non-electronic and electronic—focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk’em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokémon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing...
Joined Forces
Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus...
by Daniel Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The world is becoming more political. Politics is entering ‘through the back door and lying in your bed’. What role do artists have at this key moment, where political engagement and apathy lie side by side? What is art for? Starting from the assumption that all art is political, and that artists...
Transmedia Frictions
The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media...