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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Introduction to Ballet its Culture and Issues
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Voice Coachs Toolkit
Book SynopsisThe Voice Coach''s Toolkit identifies the primary professional vocal coaching opportunities and the avenues by which a student or early career coach can navigate the vocation.For purposes of this book, the Voice Coach is defined as someone who coaches the spoken voice in three precise areas: the teaching artist, the professional film/TV/theatre coach, and the professional voice-user coach. These three coaching worlds are broadly defined and each area includes in-depth interviews and practical advice from top coaches along with the author's personal expertise.The book can be read in sections or as a whole, making it as useful for early career coaches as it is for those looking to expand their vocal coaching career or vocal pedagogy students who need a broad survey of all three areas.Trade Review"This is an exciting and enriching book for both the actor to understand the importance of the vocal coach (VC) for the speaking voice but also for the director who must see the need to engage with the VC at the commencement of the production process. This book has painstakingly documented lived experiences of vocal coaches thereby creating job avenues for upcoming coaches." — Abímbọìlá Stephen-Adésinà, Arts Fellow, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria"In The Voice Coach’s Toolkit, Pamela Prather has written a book that is personal, accessible and very practical. As well as telling us the journey of her own experiences as a vocal coach, Pamela has interviewed a wide range of teachers that allows us to hear a variety of stories and receive the perspectives and insights acquired from a professional life in the field of voice. A great read!" — Andrea Haring, Executive Director, The Linklater Center for Voice and Language"I have often been asked, 'How and what do I do?' Although I am now a 'retired' voice professional, this book gave me a very comprehensive definition of my/our professional life journey. It was so rewarding to hear colleagues and former students reflect on the specifics and dynamics of 'how' we relate to our assignments and clientele. I kept saying to myself, 'YES!'" — Barry Kur, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University School of Theatre"This book is like attending a complete voice conference over a number of days, and then having a tea date with them afterwards to continue the conversation. Each session is packed full of useful advice from experienced professionals. It is a must-read resource for all voice coaches and those just getting into the field. Well done, Pamela!" — Betty Moulton, former president of VASTA and Professor Emerita, University of Alberta (Canada)"Providing a comprehensive introduction to the field of voice coaching and full of wonderful advice from experienced voice coaches, The Voice Coach's Toolkit is an excellent resource both for the beginner and the established professional." — David Carey, formerly Resident Voice and Text Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA"What an honor to be included in Pamela Prather’s remarkably inspiring and practical The Voice Coach’s Toolkit. Her interviews of world renown leaders of this field make the reader feel they are in the room listening to personal conversations and stories – gleaning the pathways so they can join in and enter this profession themselves." — Jan Gist, Professor of Voice, Speech, Dialects, Old Globe/ University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program"The world of voice coaching is changing as fast as the rest of our lives, and Pamela Prather’s handbook addresses important new themes as well as perennial principles. Her presentation of various subtypes of coaching will especially help those new to the field." — Joanna Cazden MFA, MS-CCC, Holistic Voice Rehabilitation"Pamela Prather takes her readers on a remarkable deep dive into the expansive world of voice coaching. This engaging toolkit succeeds at conveying the nuance and complexity involved in professional voice care, all while maintaining a uniquely flowing and conversational writing style." — Michael Lerner, MD, Laryngologist, Division of Otolaryngology, Yale School of Medicine"Aún con la visibilidad que ha alcanzado la profesión en años recientes, el camino para llegar a ser docente de voz sigue siendo confuso. Prather ha tenido el buen tino y la bondad de poner en un solo sitio múltiples recursos de gran utilidad, especialmente para quienes comenzamos en este andar de la voz escénica. (Even with the visibility that the profession has achieved in recent years, the path to becoming a voice teacher remains confusing. Prather has had the good sense and kindness to put multiple very useful resources in one place, especially for those of us who are just starting out on this stage voice journey)." — Oscar Quiroz, MFA Acting Candidate, Michigan State University and Former Voice Teacher, National School of Dramatic Art of Honduras"Prather’s engaging resource for voice professionals, The Voice Coach's Toolkit, is a well-organized interwoven series of interviews that guides one to a rich understanding of approaches. The interviews with luminaries in the field – some of whom are no longer with us – are treasures." — Patricia Raun, Professor of Theatre, Virginia Tech"The Voice Coach’s Toolkit by Pamela Prather is an invaluable resource for new and established voice, speech and dialect coaches who want to build a career. In an ever expanding field, this book brings together the numerous strands – both methodologies and practitioners – to provide ways and means for navigating training, best practices in teaching and coaching, and building a profitable business." — Rena Cook, former Head of Voice at the School of Drama, University of Oklahoma and founder of Vocal AuthorityTable of ContentsSection I 1. What is a Voice Coach? 2. The Voice Coach as Teaching Artist (VCTA) 3. The Professional Voice Coach for Actors (PVCA) 4. The Professional Voice User Coach (PVUC) 5. Vocal Health Topics for the Voice Coach Section II Introduction to Words of Wisdom List of Interviewees Words of Wisdom: Interviews with the Experts Appendix: Pamela’s Vocal Health Care Tips Interviewee Biographies Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Theatre and Performance in the Neoliberal University Responses to an Academy in Crisis Routledge Research in Arts Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Body in Sound Music and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Body in Sound Music and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Pantomime Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Stage Musicals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on the EighteenthCentury English Stage 11 Routledge Library Editions 18th Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on the EighteenthCentury English Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Business of American Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse Essays on Beethoven Song Routledge Voice Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Liveness
Book SynopsisLiveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies?Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander's groundbreaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture, suggesting that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. In this new edition, the author thoroughly updates his provocative argument to take into account the impact of the internet, and cultural, social, and legal developments. He also addresses the situation of live performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In tackling some of the last great shibboleths surrounding the high cultural status of theTrade ReviewPraise for the Second Edition:"Auslander’s Liveness emerges, then, not simply as a revised and updated version of the original text, but, more remarkably, as a better, more readable book—one that will almost certainly remain foundational for future historical, critical, and theoretical elucidations of the dynamic tension between the live and the mediatized, perhaps the defining paradox of contemporary performance." —Brian Eugenio Herrera, University of New Mexico, USA"Almost twenty-five years since its original publication, during which digital culture and technologies have become increasingly integral to our lives and cultural practices, while the pandemic has rapidly necessitated a deeper conversation about mediatized performance, the questions Auslander asked in Liveness are still applicable to emerging forms, practices and experiences of liveness. These questions are as relevant today as ever, particularly in the current theatre landscape where mediatized performance is not only about prerecorded or live broadcast performance, but also about various modes of digital and hybrid performance that use technologies at the core of their formation, design, critical rationale, staging and audience engagement strategies." — Seda Ilter, University of London, UK, Theatre Research International, October 2022Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Live performance in a mediatized culture 3. Liveness and discourses of authenticity in music 4. Legally live: law, performance, memory 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Troubling Traditions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The English Theatrical AvantGarde 19001925
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction ISME Series in Music Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategies Tips and Activities for the Effective Band Director Targeting Student Engagement and Comprehension
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Oral Literary Performance in Africa Beyond Text Routledge African Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling
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Taylor & Francis Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Applied Theatre with Youth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing Truth
Book SynopsisPerforming Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way. Trade Review"For over two decades, L.M. Bogad has been transforming how artists deploy performance as activism. In Performing Truth, we come to understand how he has done so. This collection of Bogad’s scripts and critical responses to them provide artists and scholars alike a deeper understanding of the dialogic and dialectic between art and activism, and the potential material effects when employed in tandem."—E. Patrick Johnson, Dean of the School of Communication, Northwestern University, author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity "You will carry this book everywhere. You will read it often. You will use it repeatedly. You can change our troubled world with this book. These pages are a manifesto and a methodology on how to transform the effects of concentrated global wealth, contested histories, and social dissent into methods of performance: from the carnivalesque of farce and collective game play to the provocations of interactive improvisation and embodiments of sound. This is a book with a purpose that is beautifully inspiring to read and urgently needed."—D. Soyini Madison, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, author of Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance"Larry’s the guy in those movies whose friend just ingested poison. He’s slapping us, he’s walking us around, he’s telling us jokes. Why? Because he knows the dangers of falling asleep. He’s really good at it. If you want to feel a smile steal over your face while learning grim and boggling historical truths, if you want a measure of your hope restored, then read what this brazen, impish, deeply serious clown has been up to."—Glen Berger, Emmy-award-winning writer for theatre and children's television, author of Song of Spider-Man"Bogad has been using his passion to create a blend of performance and protest for years, taking the techniques of theatre and applying them to make them both engaging and activating. His particular blend of satire, analysis, audience participation and outrageous truths is designed not to simply entertain, or to distract, but to show through theatricality the extraordinary hypocrisies of the brutal culture so many decry but tacitly accept. He hilariously atomizes the ugly truths, the viciousness, the oppressive violence of everyday America – but he does it with an endearing smile and ironic twist that makes it subversively effective." —Michael Gene Sullivan, actor, director, playwright, Collective Member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe"Bogad revives the long-held tradition that critical inquiry must also involve creative work. The boldest critical theory has always come from practices that pair deep, written interrogation with practices of building, producing and visualizing. New performances and artefacts not only help embody a critique but personalize the experience of critique and help us all imagine the alternative paths, potential futures and meaningful options ahead. In this collection, Bogad organizes an incisive portfolio so as to bring out the themes that cut across his stage performances, street theatre, musical outputs and data analyses. This collection shows off both critical and creative thinking, and reminds us how the comical and playful use of space, shared experiences and information technology is vital to building a better society."—Philip N. Howard, Professor, Oxford University, author of Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political OperativesTable of ContentsPreface Plotting Your Radical Memory Adventure - Paloma Martinez-Cruz; Introduction Infectious Dissent: Cultural Vaccines for the Political Pandemic in Progress.; Chapter 1 COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act; Chapter 2 ECONOMUSIC: Keeping Score; Chapter 3 POSSIBLE PASTS/FORGOTTEN FUTURES: Santiago 9/11/1973; INTERMISSION: A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS; Chapter 4 THE REVOLT OF THE FOOTNOTES; Chapter 5 A FAIR FIGHT; Chapter 6 GGPS: The Guillermo Gómez-Peña Global Positioning System; Chapter 7 THE AUTHORITARIAN BODY: Performing Politicians; Chapter 8 GLAMORGEDDON: Limonauts Gamble for Oakland-land; Chapter 9 A Collection of Street Theatre Scripts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging 21st Century Tragedies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Beginners Guide to Opera Stage Management
Book SynopsisThe Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, the book covers stage management best practices through prep, rehearsals, tech, performance, and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract, right through to archiving paperwork, this essential toolkit covers each step of a stage manager's journey. Working with a score, reading music, working with singers, conductors, and musicians, basic duties of a stage manager versus an assistant stage manager, and other tasks specific to opera are also included in this comprehensive guide. This book is full of tips and tricks, as well as the good, bad, and ugly stories from opera stage managers, sharing both their experiences and mistakes.This is the perfect how-to book for the profesTable of Contents1. Opera Background 2. Document Design 3. Prep Week 4. Rehearsal 5. Rehearsal Paperwork 6. Tech Week 7. Performance 8. Archive
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Beginners Guide to Opera Stage Management
Book SynopsisThe Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, the book covers stage management best practices through prep, rehearsals, tech, performance, and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract, right through to archiving paperwork, this essential toolkit covers each step of a stage manager's journey. Working with a score, reading music, working with singers, conductors, and musicians, basic duties of a stage manager versus an assistant stage manager, and other tasks specific to opera are also included in this comprehensive guide. This book is full of tips and tricks, as well as the good, bad, and ugly stories from opera stage managers, sharing both their experiences and mistakes.This is the perfect how-to book for the profesTable of Contents1. Opera Background 2. Document Design 3. Prep Week 4. Rehearsal 5. Rehearsal Paperwork 6. Tech Week 7. Performance 8. Archive
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards an Ecocritical Theatre
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