Performing Arts category: 25753 books
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Artistic Developments in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
From "green" pop and "clean" cinema to halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap, Islamist fantasy serials, and Suficized music, the performing arts have become popular and potent avenues for Islamic piety movements, politically engaged Islamists, Islamic states, and moderate believers to propagate their...
Canadian Performing Arts Bundle
Emma Albani / John Grierson / Mary Pickford
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore the lives of some Canadian pioneers in the world of performing arts. Profiled are: Mary Pickford, the silent screen star of the 1920s; Emma Albani, a classical singer...
The Creative Audience
The Collaboritive Role of the Audience in the Creation of Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
NEW REVISED 2013 EDITION. The collaborative role of the modern audience in the visual and performing arts - painting, sculpture, photography, film, television, theatre and music. This is a great text for aspiring PRODUCERS of performing and visual arts projects . It is an excellent exploration of the...
Panggung Semar
Aspects of Traditional Malay Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected. In recent years, the subject has begun to attract the serious scholarly interest it deserves. Such attention is timely, for the principal theatre...
by Jim Volz, Jim Volz
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Introduction to Arts Management offers a unique, dynamic and savvy guide to managing a performing or visual arts organization, be that an arts center, theatre, museum, art gallery, symphony orchestra, or other arts company. For those training to enter the industry, workers in arts administration,...
by Kapila atsyayan V
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In her continuing quest, re-affirming the vision of India as an organic whole, Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan approaches the arts of Kerala both in their distinctive qualities and holistic dimension, which ideally represent the dynamics of Indian cultural processes. This monograph, based on the inaugural Parikshit...
Engaging Stages
Best Practice in Creative Audience Development for the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Engaging Stages is a hands-on guide for theatre makers and creative leaders to inform and inspire about strategic approaches to public engagement. Published by the Theatron Engaging Stages Network Europe, it contains 30 contributions and case studies from 17 leading performing arts organisations...
by ?Lanre Agboola, Adavi Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This eclectic play dramatises the desperate nature of man, which propels him to devise fraudulent ways out of difficult situations, an act that results in contentions arising from collision of conflicting forces. Before the climax of the play, a prologue and four preceding parts provide a buildup...
African Youth Languages
New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has...
Performing Remains
Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through its interdisciplinary method, vivid writing,...
The World's Your Stage
How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Most performing artists don’t do what they do for the money. And that’s a good thing, because jobs are scarce and talent alone no longer assures success. But since you’ve spent years mastering your craft--be it as a musician, a dancer, an actor, or some other type of artist--wouldn’t you love...
by James W. Robey
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Human Kinetics’ Interactive Dance Series includes Beginning Tap Dance, Beginning Ballet, Beginning Modern Dance, and now Beginning Jazz Dance and Beginning Musical Theatre Dance. These titles are the traditional dance courses taught through dance, physical education, and fine arts departments for...
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, European...
Turn, Turtle!
Reenacting The Institute
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Performing Urgency #2 – Series Edited by Florian Malzacher. 'Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute' is a creative and intellectual analysis of the new turn in the perception and workings of the institutes in the performing arts. What has become apparent in the last ten years or so is a move...