Other performing arts Books
Hachette Livre - BNF Le Corsaire: Ballet-Pantomime En Trois Actes
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£9.00
Hachette Livre - BNF Le Théâtre de la Monnaie Depuis Sa Fondation Jusqu'à Nos Jours
£33.00
Hachette Livre - BNF Observations Tendant À La Suppression Du Droit
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£9.00
Les Belles Lettres Olympe Et Elysee: Ou La Vertu En Politique
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£18.88
Klincksieck La Formation Aux Metiers Du Spectacle En Europe
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£41.80
Harrassowitz Between Fame and Shame: Performing Women - Women
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£58.90
Verlag Herder Petri Heil: Christsein Ohne Kirche
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£29.50
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Eine Theaterlandschaft für Belgrad:
Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, Belgrade developed from an Ottoman-influenced provincial town to the capital of a nation-state. In this cultural history of the Belgrade theater landscape of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Marija Đokić shows that Serbian and European theater practices entered into a productive exchange and contributed to the formation of a national identity, the Europeanization of the Western Balkans and the emergence of the Yugoslav idea. The innovative study is based on a broad concept of theater, which not only focuses on the Serbian national theater, but also on music theater, variety shows or the circus. Đokić also explores the transnational interdependencies of the Belgrade theater world and the importance of the microcosm of theater for the cultural history of the young Balkan state. In this way, she manages to paint a fundamentally new picture of the Belgrade theater landscape and Serbian society between 1841 and 1914.
£73.59
Peter Lang AG Reading Contemporary TV Series: Aesthetics,
Book SynopsisThe rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. The development has influenced both the mainstream of popular culture and reception practices of audiences across nations and platforms. This book observes how the means employed in key contemporary TV series texts and a specific thematic variety have promoted new reception styles and redefined conventional interpretive practices. The authors analyze a variety of series released since 2000 to discuss historical (dis)continuities of genres and conventions, and observe how interpretive competences promoted by the rhetoric of contemporary TV series result from, and are polemical with, the conventions of visual and verbal cultures of preceding decades.Table of ContentsAesthetics, Themes, and Reception of 21st-century TV series. Subject matters discussed: Narrative Conventions and Experimentation; Visual Complexity and the Spectacle; Seriality and the Segmented Experience of Narrative; Representations of Female Identity, Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Dystopian Futures and (Not Too) Fictional Presents: Living the Covid-19 Pandemic; Reader/Viewer and the Text; Watching is the New Reading: Defining Reader’s Competences; Multimodal TV Series
£36.94
Peter Lang AG Wanda Jakubowska Revisited
Book SynopsisThe book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), author of The Last Stage (1948), an icon of women’s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films. The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowska’s biography from the period of her childhood in Russia and her youth, associated with Polish socialists. She also provides a closer look at the director’s activity in post-war production culture as a chairwoman of the film units and a teacher at the £ódŸ Film School. Talarczyk presents Jakubowska’s works in the context of Holocaust studies as well as women’s cinema. The publication includes Jakubowska’s descriptive filmography. The director’s achievements are illustrated by previously unpublished photos from film sets as well as film stills from Jakubowska’s private archive.Table of Contentswomen’s cinema – Holocaust movies – Wanda Jakubowska – The Last Stage – Holocaust studies – descriptive filmography
£36.94
Peter Lang AG Joan Didion: Life and/with/through Words
Book SynopsisJoan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America’s most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the complex relationship between life and words as guiding framework, the volume offers fresh approaches to Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, The White Album, Democracy and Where I Was From, as well as takes on her final publications The Year of Magical Thinking, Blue Nights and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. The collection also features photographs of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, with an accompanying essay by artist and photographer Nancy Ellison, plus a contribution by literary biographer Tracy Daugherty.Table of ContentsNotebooks – (auto)biography – photographs – Joan Didion – California – nostalgia – mental landscape – (post)-west – intimacy – reparative reading – LA – anti-sentimentality – Black Panthers – NYC – environmental psychology – place attachment – (dis)illusion – feminism – power – storytelling – abandonment – crossing story
£38.70
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Insegnare italiano in Polonia attraverso la
Book SynopsisCosa c'entra il cabaret con la glottodidattica? Apparentemente nulla, eppure se sapientemente sfruttato dagli insegnanti può risultare un ottimo materiale audiovisivo per gli studenti di LS. Le molteplici situazioni della vita quotidiana mostrate negli sketch, la presenza di diversi tipi di linguaggio (gerghi, slang, disfemismi, locuzioni diatopiche, diastrasiche ecc.), i giochi di parole, i rimandi storico-culturali e infine la presenza di un pubblico reale che reagisce alle battute dei cabarettisti: tutto ciò rende tale materiale un vero e proprio banco di prova per le competenze linguistiche e comunicative degli studenti, soprattutto a livelli avanzati. Attraverso la comprensione, analisi e la successiva traduzione delle battute dei comici italiani e polacchi ogni studente può verificare il proprio livello di apprendimento linguistico, mettere a reale confronto la propria lingua e cultura con la LS e infine sviluppare la capacità traduttiva e la produzione creativa in italiano.
£41.40
Books on Demand Was für ein Theater: Für Fantasie, Ästhetik und
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£10.71
Brill U Fink Screening the Creative Process: Genius, Gender,
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£81.75
Brill U Fink Theaterlobby Attackiert Zirkus: Zur Wende Im
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£65.55
Hirmer Verlag The Fashion Monkey: A Staged Promenade Through
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£28.45
Lit Verlag Critical Voicings of Black Liberation: Resistance
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£18.99
Transcript Verlag Inheriting Dance: An Invitation from Pina
Book Synopsis"Inheriting Dance. An Invitation from Pina" sets out at the historical moment we found ourselves in after the passing of Pina Bausch. The Pina Bausch Foundation started their work of carrying the artistic heritage of dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch into the future. This book reflects discussions and questions aroused by her work: How to archive dance? How to deal with the performative heritage at the outset of the 21st century? How to describe the performativity of remembering? And finally, what is the task of an archive for tomorrow, an archive to serve as a workshop for the future? Furthermore, "Inheriting Dance" provides profound insight into the practical work of the Pina Bausch Foundation, on a local, national and global level, aiming at an archive as a place of transformation, exchange, creative production, and artistic practice, similar to an abundantly growing garden. A place for future generations of dancers, artists, non-professionals, and scholars. Contributions by Salomon Bausch, Stephan Brinkmann, Royd Climenhaga, Katharina Kelter, Gabriele Klein, Sharon Lehner, Keziah Claudine Nanevie, Linda Seljimi, Bernhard Thull, Michelle Urban and Marc Wagenbach.
£30.59
Transcript Verlag Glocal Bodies: Dancers in Exile and Politics of
Book SynopsisThis book is a critical study of Iranian dance and the works of Iranian-American female dancers in exile. Focusing on the study of contemporary Iranian dance through analysis of the choreographies of three female dancers in diaspora (namely Aisan Hoss, Shahrzad Khorsandi, and Banafsheh Sayyad), this research is among the first of its kind. Elaheh Hatami investigates the transformation of professional Iranian dance and discusses the role of relocation and displacement in its performance. She argues that Iranian dance and Iranian female dancers have always been in exile - not only in a physical sense, but also in the metaphorical sense of "exile" implying foreignness, exclusion, and marginalization.
£40.00
Transcript Verlag Expanded Choreographies—Choreographic Histories:
Book SynopsisFrom objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies - it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.
£46.74
Transcript Verlag The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses
Book SynopsisUnder Japanese colonial rule in the early 20th century, Korean women began to expand their realm from the domestic to the public sphere. Sung Un Gang examines how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they began attending plays and movies, and investigates the complex negotiation process surrounding women's public presence. As the first extensive study of Korean female spectators of the colonial era, it analyses newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images and argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project. This study reconceptualizes colonial Korean female spectators as diverse active agents with their own politics.
£39.74
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of
Book SynopsisMustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy by comparing the playwright's characters with those of Chekhov's drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn's plays, following Chekhov's footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn's drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn's plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season's Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov's drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
£18.69
Lit Verlag Lieder in Erzahlunen Der Bulsa
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£19.76
AVEdition On Stage: New Stage Photography
Book SynopsisOn Stage is a breathtaking pictorial volume with photographs that convey the passion, ambience and energy of the performances and allow the viewer to take part in the unique atmosphere of the live concert. The images in this book show artists on stage between 2010 and 2015. It's an exclusive selection of spectacular rock images from over 500 concerts. Liberated from rehearsed poses, the performers are portrayed in moments, in which they left their on-stage role and returned to that which they undeniably are: a human being. With photos of the Rolling Stones, Blur, Alice Cooper, Monarchy, Public Enemy, Little Dragon, St. Vincent, Alabama Shakes, Beady Eye, New Model Army, Lou Reed, Arctic Monkeys, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, James, Editors, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Sam Smith, Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel, and many, many others. Text in English and German.
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Lachende Körper – Komikerinnen im Kino der 1910er
Book SynopsisClaudia Preschl's study focusses on female performers in comedies between 1910 and 1918. The book is a contribution to the rediscovery of this early "other" cinema in which comediennes such as "Rosalie", "Léa" or Asta Nielsen played a decisive part. Lachende Körper describes the variety of preposterous body-language and shows how anarchistic body-politics and rebellious strategies of Gender in Early Cinema can be decoded for today.Trade ReviewA book for all those who love cinema. * literaturkritik.de *
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien Olivier Assayas
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L'Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L'Heure d'été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the 'fragmentary reality' of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after '68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and in his most recent film Après-Mai. This first English-language book about Olivier Assayas includes a major essay by Kent Jones, based on his two decades of correspondence and exchanges of ideas with the filmmaker, as well as contributions from Assayas and his most important artistic collaborators. The central part consists of individual essays on each of his works, written by Chris Chang, Larry Gross, Howard Hampton, Kristin M. Jones, B. Kite, Glenn Kenny, Michael Koresky, Alice Lovejoy, Greil Marcus, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jeff Reichert, Richard Suchenski, and Gina Telaroli.Trade ReviewEnthusiastic, personal, and easy to read.... Recommended. * Choice *The book is really beautiful: the layout is terrific, the illustrations fantastic, well-chosen; it’s truly a wonderful package. -- Some Came RunningA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir 'A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord', both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...Jones, who writes four of the essays himself, has been in correspondence with Assayas for two decades, and the richness of the book is due not only to his deep affinity for Assayas's work but from the dialogue that has developed between the two of them on the nature of cinema and art. -- Film CommentTable of ContentsPreface, by Kent JonesWestway to the World, by Glenn KennyBlack Boxes. Désordre, by Jeff ReichertCold Comforts. L'Enfant de l'hiver, by Alice LovejoyWhen You Leave, You Want Time to Stand Still. Paris s'éveille, by Michael KoreskyMoving On. Une nouvelle vie, by Kent JonesRevival. L'Eau froide, by Howard HamptonThe Strange Case of Irma Vep. Irma Vep, by Larry GrossAfter Art Cinema. HHH—Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien, by Kristin M. JonesThe Soul in Times of Danger. Fin août, début septembre, by Richard Suchenski"How Futile Work Is." Les Destinées sentimentales, by B. KiteStop Stop Start Again. Demonlover, by Nick PinkertonBetter to Fade Away. Clean, by Chris ChangThe Doctor Is In. Noise, by Gina TelaroliAnywhere and Everywhere. Boarding Gate, by Kent JonesCosmic Pulses. Eldorado, by Geoffrey O'brienThe Secret Life of Objects. L'Heure d'été, by Greil MarcusWhat the Film Wants. Carlos, by Kent JonesLost Companions and Fleeing Ghosts. Après-Mai, by David Phelps, Kent JonesEarly and In-Between. Short Films, by CollaboratorsDenis Lenoir, Éric Gautier, Sylvie Barthet, and Luc Barnier in conversation with Kent Jones, by Olivier AssayasTen FilmsTimelineFilmographyBibliographyContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments
£21.25
Synema Gesellschaft Fur Film u. Medien A Post–May Adolescence – Letter to Alice Debord
Book SynopsisOlivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L'Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. A Post-May Adolescence was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on Assayas' body of work, Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, also published by the Austrian Film Museum.Trade ReviewA thoughtful, personal survey of Assayas's career by American critics edited by Jones and an English translation of Assayas's 2002 memoir A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord, both published in handsome volumes by the Austrian Film Museum, expose this tension in Assayas's work: between a desire for risk and a sensitive intelligence resistant to easy solutions; between allegiance to cinema 'degree zero,' a cinema of presence, and a romantic fascination with the passage of time...The slim memoir, packaged with two additional essays by Assayas on Debord, is a valuable companion to the Jones collection, which is often in explicit dialogue with Assayas's analysis of his own work. -- Film CommentAssayas' voice is clear, urgent, and persuasive. For him the matter at hand, the subject that keeps slipping away, is the story of how he came to know the work of Guy Debord. This is nothing less that the story of his life. -- Film Quarterly
£13.49
Archive Books Body Luggage: Migration of Gestures. Migration
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£19.00
Prodinnova Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
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£11.35
Sandeep Prakashan Documentation of Performing Arts
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£25.49
Shubhi Publications Performing Arts of India: Development and Spread
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£35.62
Ediciones Clownplanet Apayásate
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£17.50
Ediciones Clownplanet Clown Yourself
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£22.80
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 1
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece of magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must have for every magic library!
£32.25
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 4
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece of magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must have for every magic library!
£35.10
Paginas Libros de Magia Curso de Magia Tarbell 6
Book SynopsisWhat started out as a correspondence course in magic ended up becoming a masterpiece in magic literature. Remarkably detailed and clearly explained, this course includes theory, technique, and psychology, along with impactful routines. Eight volumes in all, each containing 600 pages complete this set of five books. The most respected course in magic that serves the needs of both beginners and professionals. A must-have for every magic library!
£53.78
Paginas Libros de Magia Puro Abracadabra
Book SynopsisUn libro aparentemente inofensivo que te introduce en un tejido, en un universo personal que te atrapa, que mezcla aparentes nimiedades con el sentido del universo, que te asoma a multitud de seres de carne y hueso que han tenido gran influencia en el pensamiento, el arte, la magia y la ciencia del siglo XX… Lo que parece ser el sencillo y frÍo relato de un anciano se convierte enseguida en un tapiz en el que todo encaja y es coherente, y a la vez, en el que cada hebra te invita a tirar de ella y sumergirte en un nombre propio, en un libro, en una imagen... La lectura de Puro Abracadabra. AutobiografÍa de Martin Gardner es solo el fascinante primer paso imprescindible para saborear lo que PÁginas tiene preparado para el aÑo 2018. EdiciÓn facsÍmil de ¡Corta la baraja! Se trata de un librillo antiguo de cartomagia de Martin Gardner, que la ediciÓn original en inglÉs de Martin Gardner Presents reproduce en facsÍmil. Contiene juegos de calidad. Todo un aperitivo que prepararÁ a los lectores para la trilogÍa mÁgica siguiente y una invitaciÓn para atraer hacia la magia a los miles de seguidores de Gardner. TrilogÍa de Gardner: Martin Gardner Presents La Magia de Martin Gardner 1: Matemagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 2: Cartomagia La Magia de Martin Gardner 3: Magia de cerca Con prÓlogos de Max Maven, Stephen Minch y del propio GardnerThis unassuming book may look like the simple story of an old man. However, it soon becomes an immersive experience in a captivating universe populated with figures who defined the thought, art, magic, and science of the twentieth century.
£35.18
Paginas Libros de Magia Corta la baraja
Book SynopsisEdiciÓn limitada de 1940 «ConfÍa en Dios, jovencito, pero corta siempre la baraja». Antiguo proverbio irlandÉs La cartomagia tiene con Martin Gardner una deuda muy superior de lo que la mayorÍa de los magos son conscientes. En Corta la baraja encontrarÁs diecisiete efectos originales y tremendamente prÁcticos; algunos con una construcciÓn exquisita, y muchos con tÉcnicas e ideas muy valiosas. Juegos que han pasado a formar parte de los repertorios habituales de los cartomagos, aunque otros yacen todavÍa escondidos y merecen ser redescubiertos. Jim SteinmeyerWhile some of the card tricks in this book are repertoire standards, some of them have fallen into obscurity. All seventeen of them are original, highly practical, and exquisitely carried out.
£12.30
Ma Non Troppo Guía Práctica de Ilusionismo: Juegos de Mano Que
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£15.32
Ma Non Troppo El Arte de Los Monólogos Cómicos: Stand-Up Comedy
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£22.10
Almuzara Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro de Historia del Circo
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£17.59
Fundamentos Editorial Metodo del Actor's Studio
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£14.79
Paginas Libros de Magia Mnemotecnia Teatral
Book SynopsisThis helpful guide on memory improvement will assist you both in your everyday life as well as when performing magic. It included simple memory systems — resources to help improve and increase your memory — that will help you prepare for exams, remember shopping list and upcoming events, memorize people’s names at a party, and many more. Magic that is related to the mind are highly mysterious and appealing to the audience. Mnemotecnia teatral includes more than 200 pages filled with simple techniques that create spectacular memory demonstrations and tricks. When you start learning and applying memory system techniques, you will even amaze yourself!
£34.12
Paginas Libros de Magia Cartomagia I
Book SynopsisCartomagia I is an essential guide if you want to learn about the style and secrets of the golden age of card magic. Clear descriptions of all classic card magic techniques as well as detailed explanations of 150 tricks that can be done with a deck of cards are included. In its almost 600 pages you will learn shuffles, cuts, counts, transpositions, vanishes, color changes... and a wide repertoire of secret techniques and tricks that will dazzle your family and friends.
£53.02
Museum Tusculanum Press Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory,
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£36.54
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.
£77.00
NIAS Press Performing the Arts of Indonesia: Malay Identity
Book SynopsisThe 2,408 islands of Indonesia's Kepri (Kepulauan Riau or Riau Islands) province are said to be `sprinkled like a shake of pepper' across the Straits of Melaka and South China Sea. For two millennia until colonial times, they were part of the `maritime silk road' between China and Southeast, South and West Asia. Kepri's two million inhabitants thus share a seafaring worldview that is reflected in their traditions and daily life, and is expressed most commonly in the performing arts of its largest and smallest population groups, the Kepri Malays and the formerly nomadic Orang Suku Laut (People of the Sea) respectively. In recent decades, Kepri also has become home to large numbers of immigrants from other parts of Indonesia, some of whom practise the Malay as well as their own ethnic arts. Despite its close proximity to Singapore, this is a little-known world, one brought to life in a fascinating and innovative study. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, the volume explores not only the islands' iconic Malay (Melayu) performing arts - music, poetry, dance, martial arts, bardic arts, theatre and ritual - but also issues of space and place, local identity and popular memory. Generously illustrated and with a companion website presenting related audio-visual material, Performing the Arts of Indonesia will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this fascinating region.Trade ReviewInternationally recognised for her pioneering research into the arts and music of Indonesia, Margaret Kartomi brings together leading scholars of the Malayo-Indonesian world to analyse the relationship between the arts and Malay concepts of identity, place and space. The strategic importance of the islands in the Melaka Straits and the South China Sea is undeniable but this volume is the first in-depth study of how the local peoples express their interpretation of their past and present. The collection is a model of inter-disciplinary research and will be an essential resource for studies of island Southeast Asia. (Virginia Matheson Hooker, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University)
£33.15
Five Continents Editions Multiverse: Art, Dance, Design, Technology.
Book SynopsisFeaturing visionary creators from various fields, from art and contemporary dance to architecture and robotics, this lavishly illustrated book reports from the forefront of the crossdisciplinary synthesis that creates new forms of art. The project was initiated by Diana Vishneva, principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater in New York (2005-2017) and the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, and a tireless experimenter known for collaborations that have redefined the future of dance. The book presents interviews with choreographers William Forsythe and Carolyn Carlson; photographer Nick Knight; artists Bill Viola and Olafur Eliasson; architects Toyo Ito and Santiago Calatrava; robotics inventor Raffaello d'Andrea, and other creators who actively stretch the conventional limits of their fields. Included in the volume is a DVD of a film created for this project using state-of-the-art technologies to translate the language of dance into that of cinema.
£37.50
