Performing Arts category: 25753 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
During its fifty year run, Theatre Arts Magazine was a bustling forum for the foremost names in the performing arts, including Stanislavski, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, John Gielgud and Shelley Winters. Renowned theatre historian Laurence Senelick has plundered its stunning archives to assemble a stellar collection of articles on every aspect of acting and theatrical life.
Performing Englishness
Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Performing Englishness looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based on original research within English folk culture, it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. By closely scrutinising various facets of...
Art and Politics
The History of the National Arts Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
This is the story of the creation and first four decades of one of Canada's pre-eminent cultural organizations. While it documents the history of Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa, it also tells the story of the arts in Canada from the 1960s to 2006. The story breaks down into three parts: the...
Contemporary Japanese Women’s Theatre and Visual Arts
Performing Girls’ Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts.
by Gayle Kassing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Beginning Ballet and the accompanying web resource introduce students to the study of ballet as a performing art and provide instructional support in learning foundational ballet technique. Part of Human Kinetics’ Interactive Dance Series, Beginning Ballet is for students enrolled in a beginning...
Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts
Cities of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance,...
Performing Piety
Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, “repented” from “sinful” activities, and dedicated themselves to worship, preaching, and charity. Their public conversions were influential...
They Told Me Not to Take that Job
Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. When he did so America's leading arts venue was routinely described in terms like this:
Behind the scenes, however, Lincoln Center is a community in deep distress, riven by conflict over a grandiose 1 billion redevelopment plan
instead of uniting...
by Jacques D'Amboise
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.”
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers,...
The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom whether inside or outside of Hollywood, and...
VIE FESTIVAL 13-25 ottobre 2015 - English version
Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
VIE Festival was founded in 2005 with the goal of crossing the contemporary world, of intercepting new identities and subjectivities which stand out in the field of live performance. It takes place yearly every October in Emilia-Romagna Region, and it is organized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione,...
Beautiful Chaos
A Life in the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
"Beautiful Chaos is an extraordinary journey of Carey Perloff and her theatre, ACT. Their continued evolution and ability to define and re-define themselves with courage, tenacity, and bravery allow them to confront what seem like insurmountable odds. This continues to shape and inspire Carey...
Illusive Utopia
Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."
---Charles...
by Wynn Wheldon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Today the very nature of the BBC is being called into question, its future uncertain. But for legendary BBC broadcaster Huw Wheldon—a remarkable man who devoted his life to his country, his family and the public—its unwavering purpose was clear: to make the good popular and the popular good.
With...