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Lulu.com The Godspell Truth
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Lulu.com Charla entre teatristas 2
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Lulu.com A Primera Vista Teatro Intimo 2
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance
Book SynopsisSpencer Hazel is Reader in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Newcastle University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Semiotics of Performances
Book SynopsisPaul Bouissac is Professor Emeritus at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. He is a world renowned figure in semiotics and a pioneer of circus studies. He runs the Semioticon, an Open Semiotics Resource Center, which has a global readership.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theatre and the Threshold of Death
Book SynopsisOn the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a pioneer in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist, and mystic, whom Albert Camus called the only great spirit of our time; Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), the grandmother of performance art; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first known (and belatedly acknowledged) abstract painter. Each time Gough crosses a threshold into their world, she is compelled to attend courses, seminars and workshops that are simultaneously about dying and healing. Curious to learn more about the relationships between art practice, dying, and healing, Gough imagines the five artists as wisdom teachers in a mystery school. In a series of eight lectures, she turns to performance theory to provide a framework for enga
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rhythm in Postdramatic Performance Process
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Performing Folk Songs
Book SynopsisPerforming Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters. Autoethnography, sensory ethnography, life-writing and landscape writing are used to explore the affective and emotional aspects of learning songs by heart'. Drawing on her experience as a folk singer, Bennett contributes to discourse on English folk traditions in the 21st century and brings performance scholarship to the contemporary folk song resurgence. In analyzing the performance of English folk songs in the affective context of the archive and the landscape, the book engages with and contributes original insights to scholarship on folk music, performance studies, affect theory, cultural geography and intangible cultural heritage studies.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Enduramorphosis
Book SynopsisChelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She considers limits of the body and the enduring effects of frameworks that force the body to act and react through performance, photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation, and text. Coon has exhibited and performed extensively internationally in galleries, biennales, and festivals, and her writings on contemporary art, performance and philosophy have been published globally. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Wedding Absolute Classics
Book SynopsisThe Wedding is a Polish classic, continually in production in Poland since Stanislaw Wyspianski wrote it nearly a hundred years ago. A witty but ultimately tragic satire about Polish society, this remarkable play is set around the celebrations of a wedding between a poet from the city of Krakov and a peasant girl from a rural village.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mindgame
Book SynopsisAnthony Horowitz is best known for such television programmes as Poirot, Murder Most Horrid, and Midsomer Murders - for wich he has written many episodes. He is also a well-known children's author with a dozen books including two collections of horror stories to his name. However, theatre has always been his first love and although Mindgame is his first play he has followed it with a study of the last years of Shackleton, and a musical, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Inside Out Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisTeenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent life, they move from dreams to betrayal - with devastating results.Inside Out, a Clean Break commission, is the provocative and funny story of how the sisters fight for a better future.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fragile Land Oberon Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThe first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners. Suitable for ages 14+Fragile Land was performed at the Hampstead Theatre, London, from 25th March - 12th April 2003.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Tshepang The Third Testament
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Woman Before
Book SynopsisAward-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. He has worked as a journalist, translator and dramaturg, and is currently writer in residence at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Schimmelpfennig's widely performed plays include Vorher/Nachher, Push Up, Vor Ianger Zeit im Mai, MEZ, Keine Arbeit fur die junge Frau im Fruhlingskleid, Fisch um Fisch and Aus den Stadten in die Walder, Aus den Waldern in die Stadten.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sugar Mummies
Book SynopsisTanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Her stage plays include Voices in the Wind, Skeleton, On the Coach with Enoch, Sanctuary (also published by Oberon books) and The Waiting Room, which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Sezuan and adapted Gita Mehta's A River Sutra.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Mirror for Princes Kalila Wa Dimna
Book SynopsisSulayman Al-Bassam, (June 1, 1972), is a Kuwaiti playwright and theatre director, and founder of Zaoum theatre company (London 1996-2001) and its Arabic arm Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre Kuwait (2002). From The Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK to Peter Brook's legendary theatre in Paris, from Japan to the USA, the work of Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre has been celebrated across four continents by the world's most prestigious cultural powerhouses. Led by Kuwaiti writer & director Sulayman Al-Bassam and British producer Georgina Van Welie, working alongside artists from across the Arab World and Europe, the company is a celebration of cultural diversity in an age of extremes.
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Bloomsbury Academic Great Expectations
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Le Partage De La Parole
Book SynopsisLuce Irigray's "Zaharoff" lecture is part of an intellectual adventure begun with "Speculum". "De L'autre femme" (1974) and continued in "Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un" (1977) and "Ethique de al difference sexuelle" (1984). The present volume not only contains the text of "Le Partage de la parole" itself but also reprints two earlier essays that bear upon the same topic. Irigaray is a feminist philospher whose work has always had a practical dimension. In this collection, her arguments are underpinned by empirical research on the language of schoolchildren and should have wide implications not only for a range of academic disciplines but for educational policy-makers and for feminism as a political force.
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sited Body Public Visions
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Hohm Press,U.S. The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of
Book SynopsisScores of books exist about the life and teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff (~1866-1949), yet few devote significant coverage to the Gurdjieff Movements. These several-hundred precise and mostly asymmetrical gestures, arranged into detailed choreographies for groups of practitioners, were designed by Gurdjieff himself. This new book reconsiders the eminent role of the Movements, revealing them as a vital yet often-neglected component in the transmission of Gurdjieffs legacy. Van Dullemen, whose first Movements teacher received her instruction from Gurdjieff himself, is in a unique position to offer background, theory and first-hand experience about this subject. He is a professional musician and a long-time practitioner of the Gurdjieff work who trained in these Movements and served as a master accompanist for the practice for over thirty years. No book can teach the Movements, the author clearly asserts. And, he makes no such attempt here. Far from an instruction manual, this book offers invaluable insight into and greater understanding of the whys and wherefores of this fourth arm of the vast teaching that comprises Gurdjieffs complete communication: his books, his oral teachings, his music and finally his Movements. Along with fascinating stories of his own journey of discovery, van Dullemen has skillfully integrated: autobiographical descriptions of the master Gurdjieff; interviews with direct pupils of Gurdjieff; diligent research within a wide range of firsthand sources; descriptions of the scientific, cultural and social climate during Gurdjieffs time, and; the relationship between these and his teaching. The book is also a rare accomplishment. While highly authoritative, it is nonetheless written in a direct style with clear language, making it accessible to the public at large who may have interest, but little background, in this esoteric science and practice.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Off Nevsky Prospekt: St Petersburg's Theatre Studios in the 1980s and 1990s
Book SynopsisOff Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s. Professor Markova charts the development of the theatre studios - from their beginnings as a reaction to the repressive atmosphere of the Soviet period and through the "theatre bacchanalia" of the Perestroika years. She then surveys today's vibrant scene, with analyses of key productions and interviews with many of the central figures, and describes how theatre studios have subverted the conventions of the past to create a new dialogue with the changing society from which their audience is drawn.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the series List of Plates 1. Before we turn off Nevsky Prospekt (In lieu of an introduction) 2. Never lie to yourself 3. A stranger among my own people 4. Why is everything always so hard for us all? 5. A youth rehabilitation centre 6. An ecological niche 7. Theatre of dreams 8. Private life in the show genre 9. In search of the fire to make the omelette 10. Entry by love only 11. Derevo: the Tree and its roots 12. Diklon flickers on 13. What we have we don't measure, when we lose it we cry 14. Postscript Index
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Youcanprint Charley Chase In Front Of The Camera
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Emperium Studios Made For Hollywood
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Eva Volitzer Actor's Studio The Art of Acting
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Faith Powers The Quantum Vocalist
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David Macpherson The Hangover Hour
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Honesti Deorre Ann Dosciar Underneath It All
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Kev Sutherland Punk An Illustrated History
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Özer Mumcu Abuso
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Mark Jones Donald Pleasence
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Live Stronger Faster Body Language for Video Creators
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The DbD Experience
Book SynopsisFirst, pick up a copy of Rachel Rosenthal's inspiring The DbD Experience; Part manual, part manifesto, part memoir, then head for Los AngelesFRIDAY - OriginsArrive at the Doing by Doing workshop to be greeted by Rosenthal, pioneering theatre explorer and your host for the weekend ahead. Explore non-human ways of living and moving. Begin to develop a shared vocabulary with your fellow students through exercises. SATURDAY - ConnectionsContinue to connect with the group on an energetic level. Make the journey from Kansas to OZ. Collaborate and create as a group, moving and vocalising without language. Improvise boldly at every step. Treat music, voice, lighting, costume, sets, props and fellow performers as equals.SUNDAY - PowerLearn to arrive in the moment when you are needed. Engage with transformative processes and take part in the Star Meditation. Understand your own individual power, joining your physical and emotTable of Contents1. Foreword by Katie Noonan 2. Introduction 3. Preface 4. What is Doing by Doing? 5. Addendum
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stepping Stones
Book SynopsisStepping Stones is the book of a practitioner. It documents the work of a laboratory-based practice that investigated the principles of collective improvisation as a performance practice. Though the dynamics and mechanisms of collective work and improvisation have been amply researched in training and composition contexts, not so can be said in the context of performance. Ingemar Lindh's research, which announces a resistance to choreography, fixed scores, and directorial montage, has significant implications for the practice and theory of performance in a post-dramatic age. Stepping Stones is, to quote Lindh himself, a book not written but spoken' in the sense that it is a collection of transcripts and writings by and about Lindh. The first two chapters are based on a transcript of a workshop held in Porsgrunn (Norway) in 1981. In these chapters Lindh's unique work on performer process (including the adaptation of isometric training for actors) is expounded in theTable of ContentsPreface to the Italian edition - Acknowledgements - Introduction to the English edition by Frank Camilleri - 1. In Search of Research - Introduction: A Hypothesis - The Actor: Poetry and Technique - 2. Catching the Moment of Eternity - Training - Frescoes - Immobility - The Actor - Incarnation - Alternation - Collective Improvisation - Stepping Stones - 3. 'Dear Friend...' - First Letter to Bengt Häger - Second Letter to Bengt Häger - 4. The Transparent Man - An Interview with Ingemar Lindh by Paolo Martini - 5. Institut för Scenkonst - AChronology by Magdalena Pietruska - 1971-1996: Twenty-Five Years of Research, Pedagogy, Performances - Post Scriptum - Munkängen 1998-2001 - Index of Performances - Index of Photographs - Glossary of Terms by Frank Camilleri - Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Three Plays by Mae West
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Phaidon Press Ltd In the Studio
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University of Regina Press Performing Turtle Island
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Primary Information Fia Backstrom Coop
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Primary Information Title Tk An Anthology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Plays by Women of Color
Book SynopsisIn the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. Work by female writers and writers of color is more widely produced, published, and studied than ever before. Drawing from an exciting range of theaters, large and small, from across the country, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics. From the playful to the painful, this revised and updated edition presents a rich array of voices, aesthetics, and stories for a transforming America.Table of ContentsIntroductionRoberta Uno Cardboard PianoHansol Jung ClothesChitra Banerjee Divakaruni Daughter of a Cuban RevolutionaryMarissa Chibas EclipsedDanai Gurira Elliot, A Soldier’s FugueQuiara Alegría Hudes Etchings in the SandMeena Natarajan ∙ Ananya Chatterjea Food and FadwaLameece Issaq ∙ Jacob Kader Gunshot MedleyDionna Michelle Daniel He Lei no Kākā‘āko: Woven MemoriesTammy Hailiʻōpua Baker Lines in the DustNikkole Salter Mala HierbaTanya Saracho N*gg*Lynn Nottage Our Lady of KibehoKatori Hall Our Voices Will Be HeardVera Starbard Scenes from 68* YearsHannah Khalil Stand-Off at HW#37Vickie Ramirez Sun SistersVasanti Saxena The Adventures at Camp KaKeeKwaSha and the Magic Musky Casino! Marcie R. Rendon The Wild InsideCusi Cram The Wong Street JournalKristina Wong What Would Crazy Horse Do?Larissa FastHorse Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior Kathryn Haddad
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Performance and Performativity
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal complex space' or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.Trade ReviewFashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari Transformations and Translations 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata 2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely 3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling Stages and Places 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen 5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson 6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine 7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square Models and Poses 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis 9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti 10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg 11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Costume in Performance
Book SynopsisDonatella Barbieri is Senior Research Fellow in Design for Performance at London College of Fashion, UK, and, previously, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.With contributions from Melissa Trimingham, Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK.Trade ReviewBeautifully produced. * Times Literary Supplement *[A] richly illustrated, compelling analysis of historical and contemporary costume design. The book successfully provokes a scholarly conversation that makes a marked departure from the kind of how-to book or fashion history that tends to dominate the shelves ... [It] ... explores interdisciplinary theoretical territory and makes broader arguments about the function of costume within a variety of performance genres, time-periods, and sociopolitical contexts. * Theatre Topics *This richly illustrated book presents a range of lenses for the study of costume for performance. The ambitious breadth of topics and periods covered [gives] a tantalising taste of interdisciplinary theories and methods ... This ambitious work is a significant step forward in this emerging field and offers a beautifully illustrated introduction to a wide range of theories and methods for analysing costume for performance. It is an important book for students and scholars in this field. * The Journal of Dress History *Barbieri (London College of Fashion, UK) offers a refreshing look at costumes and their use throughout history in creation, use, and affect in the development of live performance. The author finds connections between contemporary work and historical costume in pageantry, theater, and dance. Six chapters take up a wide variety of topics, exploring for example the transformative ritual of costume, costuming of choruses, the grotesque “Other” body, flying technology and costume, and costume in the present representing the past. Chapter 5, contributed by Trimingham (drama and theater, Univ. of Kent, UK), offers a compelling look at the effective power of costume as art. This well-written, beautifully illustrated book brings to light the importance of costume to live performance in terms of its preparation and presentation. Drawing examples from ancient Greece as well as a wide variety of European theater, from medieval theater to more contemporary and experimental productions, this book is sure to become required reading for students and scholars of costume design and history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals, including students in technical programs. * CHOICE *This is essential reading for anyone interested in performance and costumes, providing an exciting and accessible scholarly exploration of the uses and significance of costumes from prehistoric ritual to contemporary theater. It is valuable for its international range of productions and detailed descriptions of significant costumes, including dance, circus performance, street theater and traditional stage. -- Patricia Lennox, New York University, USADonatella Barbieri has crafted a unique and intriguing way of looking at the history of costumes for performance. Drawing on case studies and in-depth analysis of performance costume, this book is a marvelous addition for researchers in the costume discipline. -- Colleen Muscha, School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, USAThis poetic work is a tour de force of lively research and imagination. Charting the transformation of performance costume across time, space and material, Barbieri, with Trimigham, takes us from the Ancient Greek chorus to modern trapeze artists, revealing how costume creates new thresholds of human experience. -- Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaWith compelling scholarship and great artistic sensitivity, Barbieri deftly explores the cultural, societal and creative agency of the costumed and performing body. In tracing the complex artistic, historical and cultural journey from every day clothing through the designer to the cutting table to the stage costume, this magnificently illustrated book makes an absolutely essential contribution to our understanding of scenography. -- Christopher Baugh, University of Leeds, UKDonatella Barbieri’s own breadth of skills as a passionate lecturer, an inspiring teacher and a practitioner are all evident in this wonderful and uncompromising new book. Through the agility of her themes and connections from paleolithic cave painting to the most recent performances or archival discoveries, she never loses sight of the metamorphic power of costume. This is a daring and inspiring book. -- Judith Clark, Research Centre for Fashion Curation, University of the Arts London, UK.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The First Costume: Ritual and Reinvention 2 Costuming Choruses: Spectacle and the Social Landscape on Stage 3 The Grotesque Costume: The Comical and Conflicted ‘Other’ Body 4 The Flight off the Pedestal 5 Agency and Empathy: Artists Touch the Body 6 A Different Performativity: Society, Culture and History on Stage Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis
Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and performance styles, as they move from stage to screen and grapple with new technologies that present their art to ever-expanding audiences. Active Analysis offers the flexibility of mind, body, and spirit now urgently needed in acting. Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis brings to light this timely legacy, born during the worst era of Soviet repression and hidden for decades from public view. Part I unfolds like a mystery novel through letters, memoirs, and transcripts of Konstantin Stanislavsky's last classes. Far from the authoritarian director of his youth, he reveals himself as a generous mentor, who empowers actors with a brand new collaborative approach to rehearsals. His assistant, Maria Knebel, first bears witness to his forward-looking ideas and then builds the bridge to new plays in new styles through her directing and influential teaching. Part II follows a 21st century company of diverse actors as thTrade ReviewSharon Marie Carnicke eloquently tells the story of Stanislavsky’s monumental later, yet lesser-known, innovations in the art of acting. She then traces the journey of his protégé Knebel, who, almost singlehandedly, harbored and developed this work through the great restrictions of the late-Soviet world. With great compassion, Carnicke imagines what they might have undergone during what were perhaps their darkest hours, with Stanislavsky under house arrest and Knebel struggling to preserve and persevere. Carnicke then insightfully shares these innovations with her own students and thereby with the reader of this book. In our current moment as we transition to more collaborative environments, Active Analysis will prove to be a boon for rising theatre artists. * Anne Bogart, Founder and Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, Professor of Theatre, Columbia University *Carnicke gives Stanislavsky a humanity that does not exist in other texts, and gives her readers practical access to concepts that are often mired in academic and theoretical verbiage. Through rehearsals of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and a previously unproduced play, Carnicke presents Active Analysis as a usable methodology for any actor or director. A true gift! * Milton Justice , Academy Award and Emmy Award Winning Producer, Director, and Acting Teacher, Author and Podcaster of I Don’t Need an Acting Class *With intelligence, wit, compassion and respect for the traditions of theatre, Carnicke guides us to an understanding of Active Analysis and its continuing vitality in our ever changing world. Her book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. * Mary Joan Negro, Actor, Director, Tony Award Nominee, and Acting Teacher, Founding Member of John Houseman’s the Acting Company *With consummate expertise, meticulous scholarship, and innovative actor training, Carnicke reveals in clear, practical terms how Active Analysis works and how to apply it. This book could not be more timely or relevant. * R. Andrew White, Professor of Theatre, Valparaiso University, Editor, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky *Carnicke combines history, acting technique, and practical theatre advice to present a fresh approach to acting and directing in any style of theatre or film. * Michael King, Director and Associate Professor of Acting and Performance, Northern Kentucky University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations About the Author Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation List of Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources Preface: To My Readers PART I: The People Behind the Legacy Chapter 1: The Mystery on Leontyevsky Lane Chapter 2: Behind Closed Doors Chapter 3: The Truth Will Out! PART II: Six Lessons in Active Analysis Lesson 1: The Dynamic Principles of Performance Lesson 2: Scene Study through Active Analysis—Shakespeare Lesson 3: Scene Study through Active Analysis—Chekhov Lesson 4: Rehearsing a Play through Active Analysis—Johnson Lesson 5: The System in Active Analysis Lesson 6: Working With Active Analysis in the Real World Appendix: The Lie (2020), a ten minute play by Joan Eyles Johnson Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical
Book SynopsisA radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive material and digitised newspapers from the turn of the century onwards, this exciting story has been re-traced and restored to its rightful place. A vital and significant part of British cultural history between 1900 and 1950, Black performance practice was fundamental to resisting and challenging racism in the UK.Join Mayes (a Broadway- and Toronto-based Music Director) and Whitfield (a musical theatre historian and researcher) as they take readers on a journey through a historically-inconvenient and brilliant reality that has long been overlooked. Get to know the Black theatre community in London's Roaring 20s, and hear about the secret Florence Mills memorial concert they held in 1928. Acquaint yourself with Buddy Bradley, Black tap and ballet choreographer, who reshaped dance in Trade ReviewBy using in-depth research and anecdotes it breathes life into an important and forgotten period of Black British history … Presents timely insight for future scholars, graduate students, and theatre buffs. * Word Matters (STSD) *The book opens up many possibilities for future scholars, graduate students, and theatre buffs to engage in recovery work that paints a more accurate portrait of UK theatre and forces us to reconsider the role of white supremacy that has plagued theatre at large … Mayes and Whitfield’s book offers a roadmap, a corrective to reframing musical theatre histories in a way that might make us feel like we aren’t experts. I, for one, wasn’t aware of these histories. They were new to me. I didn’t have the knowledge base I typically have when reading and engaging with musical theatre history. But this is precisely the beauty of the book—it offers a learning tool. * The Theatre Times *This necessary, powerfully anti-racist book provides space and a platform for those artists who might otherwise have been forgotten. It serves as a salient reminder of the wealth of Black performers who should not be consigned to history. * The Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPart I Black practitioners and international performance networks The 1900s in context 1 Will Marion Cook and In Dahomey (1903) 2 Belle Davis, Laura Steer and Cassie Walmer The 1910s in context 3 Following a year of Black performance in the UK: 1916 4 Will Garland: Black cultural production on a national stage Part II Black networks of production The 1920s in context 5 The secret Florence Mills Memorial Concert: January 1928 6 Alberta Hunter and Mabel Mercer The 1930s in context 7 Clarence ‘Buddy’ Bradley and Clarence Robinson Part III Anti-racism and anti-imperialism in London 8 Sam Manning, Amy Ashwood Garvey and 1930s anti-colonialism 9 Swing from Calloway to ‘Snakehips’ Johnson The 1940s in context 10 Calypso and Black resistance Epilogue
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