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Taylor & Francis Ltd Judson Dance Theater Performative Traces
Book SynopsisThe Judson Dance Theatre explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came to be known as postmodern dance. Taking their cues from the experiments of Merce Cunningham, they took movements from everyday life--walking, running, gymnastics--to create dances that influenced not only future dance work but also minimalism in music and art, as well as the wedding of dance and speech in solo performance pieces.Judson''s legacy has been explored primarily in the work of dance critic Sally Banes, in a book published in the 1980s. Although the dancers from the so-called Judson School continue to perform and create new works--and their influence continues to grow from the US to EuTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: transatlantic crossings, 2 Cunningham, Judson, and the historical avant-garde, 3 Minimalism, theory, and the dancing body, 4 Allegories of the ordinary and particular, 5 Before and after 1968: dance, politics, and the avant-garde, 6 Repetition: Brown, Bausch, and De Keersmaeker, 7 Traces of intimacy and relationless relations, 8 The Judson tradition at the start of a new century, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
Book SynopsisThe second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many of the texts have been freshly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced. Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.Trade Review"...Sidnell has drawn material together in an interesting and useful way." Douglas H. White, Letters In CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Note on the texts; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Sir Richard Steele; 3. Voltaire; 4. Pietro Metastasio; 5. Denis Diderot; 6. Carlo Goldoni; 7. Samuel Johnson; 8. David Hume; 9. Mlle Dumesnil from memoirs; 10. Carlo Gozzi; 11. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; 12. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; 13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 14. Friedrich von Schiller; 15. Decrees and documents from the French Revolution; 16. Joanna Baillie; 17. Mme de Staël; 18. August Wilhelm von Schlegel; 19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; 20. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 21. Heinrich von Kleist; 22. William Hazlitt; 23. Stendhal; 24. Victor-Marie Hugo; Bibliography; Index.
£132.00
Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Robert Wilson Directors in Perspective
Book SynopsisRobert Wilson, the leading American avant-garde theatre director, revolutionised the stage by making visual communication more important than words. His productions cut across the boundaries that traditionally have defined theatre, dance, opera and the visual arts to create a total work of art. This book, the first comprehensive study of Wilson, traces the evolution of the director's astonishing career as well as his complex relationship to language and his visual rhetoric. It explains how he renovated the stage and describes in detail major productions such as: Deafman Glance, Einstein on the Beach, and the Civil Wars. Arthur Holmberg's numerous personal interviews and first-hand observations of Wilson's creative process, provide an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of one of our most original directors. Photographs and sketches from Wilson's private collection are included, along with a chronology of his work.Trade Review'Holmberg's special achievement lies in his acute attention not only to the aesthetic components of Wilson's work, but also to its aesthetic principles … The book is organised according to clusters of ideas which with what feels like the help of a good editor, pulls together the prodigious amount of material Wilson has generated. Above all, it shows anyone who wishes to discover or rediscover Wilson just how marvellous he really is.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Contextualising Wilson: from semiotics to semantics; 2. The cracked kettle; 3. Alchemy of the eye; 4. The deep surface; 5. The dream work 6. The valley of the shadow: trauma and transcendence; 7. The revolution continues.
£46.99
Cambridge University Press Acts of Activism
Book SynopsisThis 2010 book presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies.Trade Review'Soyini Madison engages in a rich discussion of the complexities of gender and human rights in Ghana … powerful exploration of the role of performance in shaping a certain type of social dialog that is bottom-up, an instrument for the community to understand and come to terms with injustices within … An important contribution to the scholarship about gender wrongs and rights, Acts of Activism crosses disciplines and links performance art to sociology and cultural anthropology, expands the scope of discussion about how to right wrongs, and the imperative of debate within communities rather than imposition of Western values and norms.' Human Rights ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Act I. Is it a human being or a girl?; Act II. Water rites/rights; Act III. Acts of activism; Epilogue; Appendices: Scripts: Appendix 1. Is it a human being or a girl?; Appendix 2. Water rites; Bibliography; Index.
£94.99
Cambridge University Press A History of African American Theatre Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 18
Book SynopsisThis is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia, and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles - from African ritual born out of slavery to European forms, from amateur to professional. It covers nearly two and a half centuries of black performance and production with issues of gender, class, and race ever in attendance. The volume encompasses aspects of performance such as minstrel, vaudeville, cabaret acts, musicals and opera. Shows by white playwrights that used black casts, particularly in music and dance, are included, as are productions of western classics and a host of Shakespeare plays. The breadth and vitality of black theatre history, from the individual performance to large-scale company productions, from political nationalism to integration, is conveyed in this volume.Trade Review'The complete historical reference for the African American theatre lover.' Family Digest Magazine'Though many mourn the recent loss of Errol Hill, he and Hatch leave a lasting legacy with his valuable and comprehensive history … Both Hill and Hatch have already been instrumental in providing extensive scholarship and criticism of African American theater and drama, and this volume broadens that investigation … The book clarifies the reality that African American contributions to theater can no longer be ignored or relegated to 'token paragraphs.' Essential.' Choice'Impressive in scope, this magesterial history of the hardships and achievements of black creators of theatre in America takes the reader from the early 1400s origins of the African slave trade to events-in-progress at certain theatres in the spring of 2001, includes theatrical forms like minstrelsy and vaudeville, and looks at African American theatre in cities all across the United States as well as in the Caribbean … A History of African American Theatre surely takes its place as our definitive work on the subject.' Theatre History Studies'Now is the time for this book. … To read A History of African American Theatre is exhilarating and exhausting; its scope encompasses everything that avows even a peripheral connection to the theatre, ranging from African ritual to European forms, from playwrights to critics. … Hatch and Hill approach the historical material, regardless if it covers the background to slavery, the Great Depression, or educational theatre, with enthusiasm.' N. Graham Nesmith'… they have done a fantastic job of documenting the information in an accessible study that offers insights into contributors to black theatre movements from slavery to the thirdmillennium … I could really do no justice by listing what is included here, the coverage is so vast … a worthy contribution to academic knowledge and an invaluable resource.' Journal of New Theatre QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Foreword Lloyd G. Richards; Preface James V. Hatch; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction Errol G. Hill; 1. Slavery and conquest: background to black theatre Errol G. Hill; 2. The African Theatre to Uncle Tom's Cabin Erroll G. Hill; 3. The Civil War to The Creole Show Errol G. Hill; 4. The American minstrelsy in black and white James V. Hatch; 5. New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and opera Errol G. Hill; 6. The struggle continues Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch; 7. The Harlem Renaissance James V. Hatch; 8. Educational theatre James V. Hatch and Errol G. Hill; 9. The Caribbean connection Errol G. Hill; 10. The Great Depression and Federal Theatre James V. Hatch; 11. Creeping toward integration James V. Hatch; 12. From Hansberry to Shange James V. Hatch; 13. The Millennium James V. Hatch; Appendix: Theatre scholarship at the year 2002; Bibliography; Index.
£58.12
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