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Curating Live Arts
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations...
The Semiotics of Light and Shadows
Modern Visual Arts and Weimar Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)
Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s...
Freeing the Natural Voice
Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language (Revised & Expanded)
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Knowing how to connect language with breath and voice is a golden key to hang on the chain of the actor's craft! Linklater’s groundbreaking original Freeing the Natural Voice sold more than 100,000 copies. Now, revised and greatly expanded this edition has been eagerly adopted by...
An Ideal Theater
Founding Visions for a New American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted...
by Bruce Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
“[A] good book filled with awesome basics for someone who it just getting into the industry.”~Rafal Cwiok“A charming introduction to the world of acting. From preparing for auditions to learning about rehearsals and stage setup, this book includes everything you'll need to know for...
40 Ways To Make Your Agent Love You
A Guide For Actors, Musicians And Models
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Great news! You’ve got yourself an agent. You’ve sent them all the promotional material they need, given them a hundred different ways they can get in touch with you. Told them you’re keen for the work. Now you’re waiting by the phone. Waiting... waiting.... waiting... Where are the jobs? Why...
Screen Gods: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It was never just an act. These leading men actually transformed into their on-screen characters—a modus operandi thats revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From method men Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman to multiple Oscar nominees Jack...
Big Mouths: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These outspoken men never met an opinion that they didnt like—or an opinion that they didnt feel like sharing with everyone else. In this case, they shared their opinions in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the original frenemies Gene Siskel...
Managing Stage Fright
A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Why is it that well-prepared, talented, hardworking, and intelligent performers find their performance and self-esteem undermined by the fear of memory slips, technique failures, and public humiliation? In Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers, author Julie Jaffee Nagel unravels...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises.
Performing (for) Survival
Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This volume gathers contributions from a range of international scholars and geopolitical contexts to explore why people organise themselves into performance communities in sites of crisis and how performance – social and aesthetic, sanctioned and underground – is employed as a mechanism for survival....
Performing Processes
Creating Live Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Live performance continues to be created every time it is performed. This book explores the dynamic relationship between creative process, presentation and spectator response to provide students and scholars in Drama with new insights on performance from poetry to pantomime. These essays make parallels...