Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Richard Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
This volume collects for the first time the work of one of America’s most important, vital and original young voices. Turning the American family drama firmly on its head, "Maxwell strips more layers of explanation from the Freudian family romance, shining light on the humiliation and fury...
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
It's Time!
My 360-Degree View of the UFC
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
If you’re reading these words, chances are that you, like me, are a fan of the great sport we call MMA.
And if you’re a fan, then you probably recognize my face.
Yeah, that’s right—I’m that guy you see at every UFC match, spinning around and roaring into the microphone and...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The most incandescent example of Bombshells is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can’t sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer’s...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The birth of the male sex symbol began when actors did more than jump on and off horses or swoop swashbuckling from the prow of a pirate ship. Sex appeal came when men looked like they intended to have sex. No one is completely sure about Clooney. Sometimes he looks more comfortable with a cup of...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
To be a star you need to rouse the senses, but to be a siren you must touch the heart. Their vulnerability, their daring and their sheer courage match the intensity of human beauty concentrated in the most famous female sex symbols of the twentieth century. To say they had real social...
by Paul G Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
You can’t look at the mixed lineup of this lot and not ask yourself what is it that makes a man compelling? One universal might be pulling power. Warren Beatty with a hair drier or 007 with a Walther PPK both did a brisk trade in the sack and again we return to the mystique of Valentino, to pose...
Bruce Lee, Woodstock And Me
From The Man Behind A Half-Century of Music, Movies and Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Fred Weintraub is the Hollywood legend you've never heard of. This visionary showman founded the landmark club The Bitter End in Greenwich Village; started the careers of Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, Woody Allen and Neil Diamond; championed the making of the "Woodstock" film (saving Warner Bros. Pictures...
Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Beth Lisick has a dedicated and enthusiastic readership. A member of the popular literary group, Sister Spit, Lisick has performed before audiences nationwide. She is dynamic on the stage, and audiences respond strongly to her work.
In 2002, Lisick was awarded a grant from the California Arts...
Musical Heroes
A Personal View of Music and the Musical World Over Sixty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Robert Ponsonby has been at the centre of the music world both in Britain and elsewhere for some sixty years, and Musical Heroes is a distillation of his experiences, achievements and friendships in that world. With its deft touch and its empathy, it is both captivating and inspiring, and it is often...
Travels in Intermediality
ReBlurring the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
How do fiction, film, music, the Internet, and plastic, performative, and fine arts negotiate their shapes, formats, and contents in our contemporary world? More important, how does their interaction shape their techniques of representation, strategies of communication, and forms of reception? In...
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Some Samples: 1) Despite his obvious high intelligence, Isaac Asimov could be absent-minded. When he was married to his first wife, he once took a bill to the gas company and complained about how much it was. He said, “We have never used enough gas to bring us up to the minimum. We have no children....
Angel Dorothy
How an American Progressive Came to Devon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers...
VIE Festival 14 - 22 october 2017
Modena Bologna Carpi Vignola
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale...