Performing Arts category: 25753 books
by Trilby James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional...
Aesthetic 3D Lighting
History, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History, Theory, and Application delves into the history, the theory, and the practical and aesthetic application of lighting in the fine arts and 3D animation.
In this book, animation industry veteran and lighting expert Lee Lanier examines the importance of lighting...
by Wendy Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic...
Performing Environments
Site-Specificity in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.
Performing the Secular
Religion, Representation, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology which aims to unsettle our habituated modes of thinking about the place of the secular in cultural productions. The last decade alone has witnessed many religious protests against cultural productions, which have led, in some cases,...
by Judith Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores...
Performing Neurology
The Dramaturgy of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This text provides a study of Jean-Martin Charcot, a founding figure in the history of neurology as a discipline and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. It argues that Charcot’s diagnostic and pedagogic models, explaining both how disease is recognized and described and how to teach the act of neurological...
by Mark Edward
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This book is an anthology of Mark Edward’s creative practice-led projects. It transmits and communicates his research through varied artistic means, primarily contemporary dance, immersive art installation, drag performance, and photography. Through the innovative practice of 'mesearch', in which...
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the 1970s a wave of ‘counter-culture’ people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked...
7 Deadly Sins - The Actor Overcomes
Business of Acting Insight By the Founder of the Actors’ Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
7 Deadly Sins The Actor Overcomes provides a unique approach to the profession of acting. The profession of acting is a vastly different conversation than the artistic desire to perform. One could argue the business of performance art may be the most difficult relationship you ever have with yourself....
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth
Performing Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, & Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that people engage with and understand the...
The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology
Through the Virtual, Towards the Real
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.
Things I've Learned from the Audience
Thoughts From an Old Road Dog
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Your hands are a little sweaty, and your stomach is feeling somewhat nauseous. You wanted to be in this, but now. You’re not so sure. All those people will be looking at you,... judging you. You want to show them what you’ve got, but right now, it’s hard to remember what that was. There are so...
by Alan London, Stacy Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
THE GREAT HOUDINI A Play in Two Acts The newspaper headlines are being barked, "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Houdini dies! Death ends career of the King of Magic". At least that's what the headlines read. What they didn't tell you is that on this very day, the Eve of Halloween, as his body is being...