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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forms of Emotion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera in Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 17701860
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Taylor & Francis Commedia dellArte its Structure and Tradition
Book SynopsisCommedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte â master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlinâs rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements â its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte â provocativTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Mask; Chapter 2 The personnages; Chapter 3 Performance location; Chapter 4 The scenarios; Chapter 5 Collective creation; Chapter 6 Gestural evolution; Chapter 7 Closed forms; Chapter 8 Multilingualism; Chapter 9 Anachronism; Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Jukebox Musical
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Taylor & Francis Jonson the Poetomachia and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Galaxy of Things
Book SynopsisA Galaxy of Things explores the ways in which all puppets, masks, makeup-prosthetic figures are material characters, using iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 to illustrate what makes them so compelling.As an epic franchise, Star Wars has been defined by creatures, droids, and masked figures since the original 1977 movie. Author Colette Searls, a theatre director and expert in puppetry studies, uncovers how non-humans like Chewbacca, semi-humans like Darth Maul, and even concealed humans like Boba Fett tell meaningful stories that conventional human characters cannot. Searls defines three powers that puppets, masked figures, and other material characters wielddistance, distillation, and dualityand analyzes Star Wars' most iconic robots and aliens to demonstrate how they work across nearly a half-century of live-action films. Yoda and Baby Yodatwo of popular culture's greatest puppetsuse these qualities to transform their human companions. SimilarlyTable of Contents1. The Things in the Galaxy 2. Distance, Distillation, and Duality 3. Powerful, Puppetry is: How two Yodas make meaning 4. I Find Your Lack of Face Disturbing: The mask performance of Darth Vader (and friends) 5. Climbing Out of the Sarlacc Pitt: The problematic side of material character powers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Galaxy of Things
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Taylor & Francis ReReading Ishis Story
Book SynopsisRereading Ishiâs Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeberâs 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.The heart of the analysis involves a five-play cycle, built around Gerald Vizenorâs trickster-survivance model. It gives Ishi a voice he never had in Kroeberâs book and imagines an Ishi who was not the happy warrior in Kroeberâs book. The author follows the story line in Kroeberâs book, focusing on key events as recounted by Alfred Kroeber and his associates Saxton Pope and Thomas Waterman. Chapter 1 tells Ishiâs story in his own words; Chapter 2 retells Ishiâs capture narrative, which includes the recording of his story of the wood ducks; Chapter 3 builds on stories told about Ishi by Zumwalt Jr.; Chapter 4 criticizes Kroeber and associates for making Ishi return to his homeland, asking him to âplayâ Indian; and Chapter 5 takes up his death and the recovery ofTable of ContentsPart One Chapter 1. You Can Call Me Ishi: The Story of a Trickster Chapter 2. Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, the Assimilated Indian Chapter 3. Ishi the Happy Warrior in Golden Gate Park Chapter 4. Ishi in the Wilderness: Anatomy of a Life and a Death (1861-1916) Chapter 5. Ishi’s Brain: The Trickster’s Revenge; Part Two Chapter 6. Ishi’s Ethics Chapter 7. Ishi Comes Home
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Taylor & Francis ReReading Ishis Story
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 20 Seasons Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis A Reader on Audience Development and Cultural Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Commedia dellArte for the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curating Opera
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Storytelling Performance
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Storytelling Performance
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance. It draws on an unprecedented series of in-depth interviews with artists including Jo Blake, Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Mara Menzies, Clare Murphy, Debs Newbold, Rachel Rose Reid, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, and Vanessa Woolf, while Sally Pomme Claytonâs reflections on her extraordinary four-decade career provide long-term context for these cutting-edge conversations. Blending ethnographic research and performance analysis, this book documents the working lives of professional storytelling artists. It also sheds light on the practices, values, aspirations, and achievements of a generation actively redefining storytelling as a contemporary performance practice, taking on topics from ecology and maternity to griefwork and neuroscience, while working collaboratively with diverse creative partners to generate new, inclusive presences for a traditionally-inspired artform. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in drama, theatre, performance, creative writing, education, and media.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Home and Away
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dancing with Georges Perec
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dance Research Methodologies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance and the Culture of Nationalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creating Improvised Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Playing with Food
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dramaturgy of Form
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fire Under My Feet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Puppet and Spirit Ritual Religion and Performing Objects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mythic Imagination and the Actor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mythic Imagination and the Actor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humor in Advertising
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space Time and Ways of Seeing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Problems of Viewing Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Performative Theatre
Book SynopsisPerformative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early twenty-first century. Annamaria Cascetta does not propose a model or a historical overview, but rather strives to identify the salient features of a significant trend in the theatrical research and transformation of our time by analysing some crucial examples from outstanding works, of great international resonance. She draws on work by artists from different generations, all active between the late twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first, and in various European countries, performed in a number of European theatres in recent years. The aim is to apply a method of analysis in depth, bringing out the technical elements of contemporary performative theatre in the field, and above all to highlight the close links between it and the urgent and troubled issues and problems of history andTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 The human journey. Odyssey by Robert Wilson. CHAPTER 2 A journey into mind and brain. From Je suis un phénomène to The Valley of Astonishment by Peter Brook. CHAPTER 3 Upending tradition: Christ and Aeschylus irrelevant? Romeo Castellucci's Orestea and Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio. CHAPTER 4 Christ's legacy: Golgota Picnic by Rodrigo Garcia: starting again from man or drowning in nothingness? CHAPTER 5 Anna Castoldi and Francesco Marzano: How to live together? From militarism and authoritarianism to the weapon of joy in Gaudeamus by Lev Dodin. CHAPTER 6 A school of democracy for an ever-changing identity: The Blind Poet by Jan Lauwers and Ça ira by Joël Pommerat. CHAPTER 7 Migration, artificiality and the city on the axis of time: Bodenprobe Kazachstan and Remote X (Remote Milano) by Rimini Protokoll. CHAPTER 8 Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood: The prophecy of a pioneer artist. CHAPTER 9 The body's dignity regained: MDLSX by Enrico Casagrande, Daniela Nicolò and Silvia Calderoni (Motos) and Bestie di scena by Emma Dante. CHAPTER 10 The beautiful and the true: from Orchidee to Vangelo, the salvational itinerary of Pippo Delbono. PHOTOS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mummers Plays Revisited Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances
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Taylor & Francis Incapacity and Theatricality Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Arts in Transition Moving between Media Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Movements of Interweaving
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere Eventbased Art in Late Socialist Europe Routledge Advances in Theatre Performance Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theatre and Dictatorship in the LusoHispanic World
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Taylor & Francis Acting Spectating and the Unconscious
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Food and Theatre on the World Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Male Dancer
Book SynopsisThis revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography. In this authoritative and lively study, Ramsay Burt presents close readings of dance works from key moments of social and political change in the norms around gender and sexuality. The book's argument that prejudices against male dancers are rooted in our ideas about the male body and behaviour has been extended to take into account recent interdisciplinary discussions about whiteness, intersectionality, disability studies, and female masculinities. As well as analysing works by canonical figures like Nijinsky, Graham, Cunningham, and Bausch, it also examines the work of lesser-known figures like Michio Ito and Eleo Pomare, as well as choreographers who have recently emerged internationally like Germaine Acogny and Trajal Harrell. Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition:‘The fascination of this book lies in the way in which the author is ableto locate the male dancer in the broader socio-historic context of thetimes . . . a vital contribution to the placing of dance and its literaturewithin contemporary cultural debate.’Dr Alexander Carter, Middlesex University‘A complex summary of the numerous biases and windows throughwhich we have viewed and continue to view male dancers . . . Burt’swork argues persuasively that theatrical dance is a vital and threateningsite for defining masculinity in relation to the culture at large.’David J. Popalisky, Dance Research JournalTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. THE TROUBLE WITH THE MALE DANCER...; CHAPTER TWO. PERFORMING MASCULINITIES; CHAPTER THREE. NIJINSKY; CHAPTER FOUR. AMERICAN MEN; CHAPTER FIVE. DANCING IN THE CITY; CHAPTER SIX. MASCULINITY AND LIBERATION; CHAPTER SEVEN. IDENTITY POLITICS; CHAPTER EIGHT. DANCING NEW RELATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
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