Entertainment Performing Arts category: 25367 books
Fatin Shidqia
Gala Live show 8 X Factor Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Fatin Shidqia
In 2012, Fatin auditioned for the first season of X Factor Indonesia with the song "Grenade", originally sung by Bruno Mars. She amazed the judges in her audition and received a lot of positive feedback among social media users, advancing to the next round. Ahmad Dhani...
**Joe Star** a Teenager Rock Star*
Velvet Blue Crystal Band: Strikes the Music so Lets Rock N Roll Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
What 's next for Joe Star? After realizing his dream of forming a hit rock band and performing live on national television , Joe is determined to take his dream of being a teenage Rock Star to the next level.
Luckily, he can count on a lot of help from his friends! Joe offers to perform at...
Sisikat Din Ako
Your Guide to Making Your Mark in Show Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sisikat Din Ako!: Your Guide To Making Your Mark in Show Business is a remarkable guide that will help and inspire people in their hopes to become successful stars in the complex but colorful world of Philippine show business. It features success stories of well-loved superstars Nora Aunor, Sharon...
Long Suffering
American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Long Suffering productively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano,...
The Domain-Matrix
Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1997
This book demonstrates Case’s continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies.... Case’s dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested...
by Graham Ley
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Acting Greek Tragedy explores the dynamics of physical interaction and the dramaturgical construction of scenes in ancient Greek tragedy. Ley argues that spatial distinctions between ancient and modern theatres are not significant, as core dramatic energy can be placed successfully in either context.
Guiding...
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams...
Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization
Performing Zero
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California.
Improvisation On the Edge
Notes from On and Off Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Directed not only toward actors, dancers, and other performing artists who draw upon improvisation as part of their craft, this Zen-infused memoir of a life lived creatively will pique the interest of anyone in search of liberation from self-limiting concepts. What does it mean to live in a body?...
Trusting Performance
A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
An epistemological inquiry into the dynamics of interpersonal trust-relations, combining philosophy, science, and critical theory in the analysis of performing bodies - on stage and in life. Rokotnitz argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to emotional learning that can change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike.
by Lesley Cookman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. Most groups, whether they be amateur drama societies, schools, Women's Institutes or Village Hall committees are constantly on the lookout for something fresh and original. This is often a matter of...
by Marco Ramirez
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
My Third Latino Monologue Book is the third title in a groundbreaking new collection designed to support K-3 students in beginning acting classes whose first language, or, language most frequently spoken at home, is Spanish. Divided into four sections about life in general, school, brothers and sisters,...
by Joslin McKinney, Philip Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Scenography – the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment – is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures, light, projected...
by Christian Biet, Christophe Triau
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an exercise of voice and gesture addressed...