Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Much Ado
A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
“Engaging and insightful.” —*Booklist*
Much Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre’s 2014 production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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by Inga Lindström
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Eine romantische Liebesgeschichte mit viel Gefühl und schönen Landschaften
Die junge Pilotin Hellen erhält den Auftrag, ein Hochzeitskleid auf die schwedische Insel Hardingsholm zu liefern. Sie landet im Garten eines abgelegenen Anwesens, wo das Brautpaar gerade seinen Polterabend feiert....
Applied Theatre: Facilitation
Pedagogies, Practices, Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Applied Theatre: Facilitation is the first publication that directly explores the facilitator's role within a range of socially engaged theatre and community theatre settings. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding critical facilitation in contemporary dilemmatic spaces and...
The hurt(ful) body
Performing and beholding pain, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume’s two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining ‘hurt’ from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping discourses of politics,...
TV Writing On Demand
Creating Great Content in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today’s audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix were just the beginning. The proliferation of everything digital has led to an ever-expanding array...
Entertaining Children
The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.
How to be a Mentalist III
Professional Mentalism with Playing Cards
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This third outing on the art of Mentalism is completely devoted to the use of the Devil’s playthings – the wonderful pasteboards – or as we commonly call them, playing cards. A mentalist is a magician of the mind. And like a good magician he/she creates a sense of wonder, amazement and...
Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers'
Class, Respectability and the Savoy Operas 1877–1909
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This innovative account of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership provides a unique insight into the experience of both attending and performing in the original productions of the most influential and enduring pieces of English-language musical theatre.
In the 1870s, Savoy impresario Richard...
by Gerry Baird
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
If you've ever tried to learn how to play piano without success, this book is for you. How to Play Chord Style Piano presents a unique and enjoyable approach to piano instruction. It begins with a thorough introduction of the basics and ends by discussing more advanced techniques, such as improvisation....
by W. B. Worthen
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Taking a 'performance studies' perspective on Shakespearean theatre, W. B. Worthen argues that the theatrical event represents less an inquiry into the presumed meanings of the text than an effort to frame performance as a vehicle of cultural critique. Using contemporary performances as test cases,...
Mosaic of Music
Mystery of Percussion and Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book is not just for the student, teaher or performer of belly-dance. It is also for the stuednt, teacher or performer of Middle Eastern drum. The DERBECKI, TAR, TAMBOURINE, KATAM, and TUBL BELEDI! You ,ay be the hysband, partner of a belly dancer that wants to be part of the scene.It is about...
by Katayoun Hutson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Created by dancer and educator, Katayoun Hutson, “How to Teach a Belly Dance Fitness Class” is a guide for new and seasoned instructors on how to present this beautiful performing art to a wide audience as a fitness activity. Drawing from her expertise in Middle Eastern dance and her extensive...
Ira Aldridge
The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences with his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter not only of tragic and comic black roles...