Performing Arts category: 25753 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts. Based on studies of adolescent and post-adolescent audiences, ages 14 to 25, the book examines to what extent they are part of our society’s cultural conversation. It studies how these young people...
Performing Blackness
Enactments of African-American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly expanding field of enterprise. Yet all too often the dominant narrative about arts organisations is one of crisis, collapse, and closure. This edited collection seeks to challenge that narrative through pursuing a focus on organisational...
by Lisa Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
As part of the new Interactive Dance Series that includes resources for ballet, tap dance, modern dance, and jazz, we bring you Beginning Tap Dance. This book helps students learn tap dancing and appreciate it as a performing art. Lisa Lewis, an experienced tap dancer and dance instructor, focuses...
Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the arts
In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had...
Mindful Movement:The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action
The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, dance educator and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field – somatic movement education and therapy – and its impact on fitness, ecology,...
by Kate Marsh, Jonathan Burrows
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
If you are a performing arts professional working in Europe and you don’t know about the work of disabled artists, you are missing one of the creative opportunities of our time, and you are doing your artists and your audiences a disservice.It is a bold statement, but one which reflects the simple...
Makin' Toons
Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
From the first drawing board sketch to wriggling TV character, Makin’ Toons illustrates the thrills and challenges of making animated cartoon movies as told by the industry’s most successful creators. Cartoon lovers everywhere will be treated to 47 personal interviews with animation artists and...
Stage Combat
Fisticuffs, Stunts, and Swordplay for Theater and Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
The most complete guide on an essential stagecraft available! Wanna fight, buddy? This comprehensive guide covers everything performers, directors, theater teachers, fight choreographers, and others need to know to stage believable, safe action for theater and other performing arts. From basic falls,...
by Alan F. Dutka
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The first movie theaters in Cleveland consisted of converted storefronts with sawed-off telephone poles substituting for chairs and bedsheets acting as screens. In 1905, Clevelanders marveled at moving images at Rafferty's Monkey House while dodging real monkeys and raccoons that wandered freely through...
Modern Acting
The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Everyone has heard of Method acting . . . but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors’ work in the twenty-first century. Developments in modern drama and new stagecraft led Modern acting...
Rainbow Jews
Jewish and Gay Identity in the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed multidimensional images of, and a welcoming public...
The Performance of Religion
Seeing the sacred in the theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a performance. However, there is often a reluctance to approach distinctly religious topics from a performance...
Eleonora Duse
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.
Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended...