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Book SynopsisAs a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first author that comes to mind when thinking about science. Tom Rutter shows, however, that in his plays and poetry Shakespeare made detailed use of the knowledge and theories of the cosmos, the natural world, and human biology that were available to him. These range from astronomical and anatomical ideas derived from medieval scholars, Islamic philosophers, and ancient Greek and Roman authorities, through to the challenges issued to those earlier models by more recent figures such as Copernicus and Vesalius. Shakespeare''s treatment of these materials was informed by the poetic and dramatic media in which he worked; the dialogic nature of drama enabled an approach that could be provisional, exploratory, and tolerant of uncertainty and contradiction. Shakespeare made the early modern playhouse a venue for the production of scientific understanding t

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Book SynopsisPsychology and theater have often intersected in the most interesting ways to describe characters, situations, and interactions. Neuroscience is in the process of discovering how the brain longs for patterns that we find in theater and other art forms, and practitioners in psychiatry frequently refer to literature and drama to better understand patients. For instance, the Oedipal complex was first illustrated in Sophocles'' Oedipus Rex, and Sigmund Freud largely derived his understanding of psychiatric complexes from his familiarity with Greek mythology.Psychiatry on the Stage presents an overview of basic psychiatric principles applied to plays from the Greeks to modern times. Additional features include illustrative vignettes from the author''s practice and several detailed indexes comprised of plays, corresponding playwrights, and various psychiatric and neurological disorders. As a board-certified psychiatrist and playwright, Dr. Berman is uniquely qualified to explore the connections between psychiatry and theater. This book is sure to appeal to both practitioners in the field of psychiatry and theater enthusiasts alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Overview 1. The Greeks 2. Shakespeare 3. Modern Plays 4. Freud's Contribution 5. Jungian Concepts 6. Adlerian Complexes 7. Reich's Ideas 8. Klein's Positions 9. Personality Disorders 10. Depression and Bipolar Disorder 11. Psychosis 12. Substance Abuse 13. Identity Issues 14. What We Learn From Plays

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Book SynopsisSince its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.

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Book SynopsisHollywood''s conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Singin'' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The first of three volumes, The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with early screen adaptations such as the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie Roberta and working through to Into the Woods (2014). Many chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, while others deal with broad issues such as realism or the politics of the adaptation in works such as Li''l Abner and Finian''s Rainbow. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.Volume I: The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen AdaptationVolume II: Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen AdaptationVolume III: Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen AdaptationTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'And I'll Sing Once More': A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen 2. Refashioning Roberta: From Novel to Stage to Screen 3. Getting Real: Stage Musical versus Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret 4. The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells Are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York 5. Into the Woods from Stage to Screen 6. Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood 7. Fidelity versus Freedom in Milos Forman's Film Version of Hair 8. 'An Elegant Legacy?': The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow 9. Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules All the Way to the Big (Enormous, Twelve-inch) Screen 10. The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass

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Book SynopsisHollywood''s conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Singin'' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The second of three volumes, Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook, traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, focusing in particular of issues of race, gender and sexuality. Enduringly popular adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Pal Joey are considered through the lens of identity, while several chapters consider how different adaptations of the same stage musical reflect shifting historical contexts. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.Volume I: The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen AdaptationVolume II: Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen AdaptationVolume III: Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen AdaptationTable of Contents1. Adapting Pal Joey: Postwar Anxieties and the Playmate 2. Too Darn Hot: Reimagining Kiss Me, Kate for the Silver Screen 3. 'A Humane, Practical, and Beautiful Solution': Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon 4. 'A Great American Service': George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy 5. Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen 6. The Shifting Sand of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen 7. 'You Will Know That She is Our Annie': Comparing Three Adaptations of a Broadway Classic 8. The Many Faces of Rio Rita

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Book SynopsisShakespeare: A Playgoer''s & Reader''s Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare''s extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader with detailed scene-by-scene plot synopses, cast lists, notes on the texts and sources, discussions of artistic features, and accounts of significant productions on stage and screen.Derived from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, and fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship and most recent notable productions, it is the ideal compact guide for students and theatre-goers needing a helpful plot summary, or readers wishing to browse on fascinating background information.Trade Review...crammed with information of the most detailed kind. One particularly magnificent section gives the entire chronology of every one of the families involved in the history plays... This is a book with no messing about. It gives its information clearly and in a pithy manner which enables the reader to absorb a great deal of information without too much cerebral effort...this little book has a wonderfully powerful kick. * ON: YORKSHIRE *A thorough and accessible resource... * Nick Smurthwaite, Drama & Theatre Magazine *Distilled and updated from OUP's earlier Oxford Companion to Shakespeare , this book would be a fine starting point for anyone wanting or needing to know more about the man and his work. * Susan Elkin, School Librarian *Table of ContentsPreface All Is True All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Cardenio The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Edward III First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry V Henry VI Part 1 Julius Caesar King John King Lear A Lover's Complaint Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Won Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer's Night Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI) Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet Sir Thomas More Sonnets The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen Venus and Adonis The Winter's Tale A Short Life of William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Life, Works, and Reception: A Partial Chronology, 1564-2020 Family Tree of Characters in the English Histories Some Suggested Further Reading

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Book SynopsisDrawing on four medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, this book contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization - and misunderstanding - of theater.Trade Review"Jody Enders's Murder by Accident offers an extraordinary amalgam of historical work and contemporary theory. We have here, as in her earlier work, richly detailed evocations of the social world of medieval spectacle. But we also have the theoretical and ethical concerns that her historical readings raise brought front and center. This book engages issues critical to anyone interested in art or in accountability (legal and moral) - that is, all of us." - Julie Stone Peters, Harvard University"

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Book SynopsisPAUL RAE is Assistant Professor on the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.

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Book SynopsisImages Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Spirit of Language in Things; L.Kosloff Contagious Participation; A.Hamilton The Force of the Text; A.Frankovich & M.Duchamp Contagious Redundancy; A.M.Roe The Force of Impotentiality; R.Maloy & B.Nauman The Force of the Charm; H.Wilke Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review"The merits of this book derive not only from its rigour and attention to detail but also from Braddock's own intensive engagement with his area of study as an artist, lecturer and curator." - Martin Patrick, Massey University, New ZealandTable of ContentsImages Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Spirit of Language in Things; L.Kosloff Contagious Participation; A.Hamilton The Force of the Text; A.Frankovich & M.Duchamp Contagious Redundancy; A.M.Roe The Force of Impotentiality; R.Maloy & B.Nauman The Force of the Charm; H.Wilke Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical late play. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Cymbeline in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors Dominic Cooke and Emma Rice providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed.Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.Trade Review'Excellent, succinct notes and introductions to each play' - John Carey, The Sunday TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction About the Text Key Facts The Tragedy of Cymbeline Textual Notes Scene-by-scene Analysis Cymbeline in Performance: The RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of Cymbeline: An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: interviews with Dominic Cooke and Emma Rice Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: A Chronology The History Behind the Tragedies: A Chronology Further Reading and Viewing References Acknowledgements and Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisThe Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge. The range of topics includes scenery, props, painting, electrics, sound and costumes. The articles each describe an approach, device, or technique that has been tested on stage or in a shop by students and professionals.Some articles included are: Building Authentic Elizabethan Ruffs; Simple and Inexpensive Stained Glass; A Quick-Load Floor Pulley Design; A Simple Approach to Stretching Drops; Flexi-Pitch Escape Stairs; Spot-Welding Scrim with Sobo; Handrail Armatures for a Grand Staircase; The Triscuit-Studwall Deck System; A Frameless Turntable; Stand on Stage: Minimum Weight, Maximum ETrade Review"....A long-needed collection of information on how specific problems have been approached and solved....To me the most valuable use of Technical Brief is not how to copy how someone else solved a particular problem, but to see the approach, materials, and techniques that were used which give me an idea how I might approach the problems I need to solve." Robert R. Scales, Ph.D., Dean of USC School of TheatreTable of ContentsCostumes; Lighting; Lighting Effects; Painting; Props; Rigging Hardware; Safety; Scenery; Scenery Decks; Scenery Electronics; Scenery Hardware; Scenery Mechanics; Scenery Tools; Sound

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Book SynopsisThe follow-up to the 2000 Golden Pen Award-winning Structural Design for the Stage, this second edition provides the theater technician with a foundation in structural design, allowing an intuitive understanding of why sets stand up. It introduces the basics of statics and the study of the strength of materials as they apply to typical scenery, emphasizing conservative approaches to real world examples. This is an invaluable reference for any serious theatre technician throughout their career, from the initial study of the fundamental concepts, to the day-to-day use of the techniques and reference materials.Now in hardcover, with nearly 200 new pages of content, it has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest recommended practices of the lumber and steel industries, while also including aluminum design for the first time. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Overview Purpose Contents Scope Chapter 2: Force, Stress, and Strain Introduction Force Free Body Diagrams Moment Equilibrium Stress Strain and Elasticity Chapter 2 Lessons Chapter 3: Stress Analysis for Beams Introduction Analyzing the Load Reaction Shear Diagrams Horizontal Shear Moment Diagrams Overhangs and Cantilevers Case Formulas Chapter 3 Lessons Chapter 4: Geometric Properties Introduction Elastic Neutral Axis, Centroid, and "c" Moment of Inertia Transferring Moments of Inertia Radius of Gyration Elastic Section Modulus The Flexure Formula Plastic Analysis Chapter 4 Lessons Chapter 5: Sawn Lumber - Introduction and Beam Design Introduction Sawn Lumber Beam Design Basics Bending Test Shear Test Deflection Test Steps in Beam Design Beam Design Examples Notching Sawn Lumber Beams Built-Up Beams Designing Backwards Chapter 5 Lessons Chapter 6: Sawn Lumber - Column Design Introduction to Column Design Euler’s Equation Adjusted Compressive Design Value Steps in Column Design Odd-Shaped Columns Chapter 6 Lessons Chapter 7: Sawn Lumber - Combined Loading Design Introduction Single Axis Bending And Axial Tension Single Axis Bending and Axial Compression Eccentric Loading Biaxial Bending Chapter 7 Lessons Chapter 8: Steel - Introduction and Beam Design Introduction to Steel and its Properties Steel Shapes Steel Structural Design Basics Steel Beam Design Steel Beam Design by Shape Hollow Rectangular Shapes Hollow Round Shapes Angle I-beams and Channel Bent about their Major Axis I-beams and Channel Bent about their Minor Axis Available Moment vs Unbraced Length Tables Chapter 8 Lessons Chapter 9: Steel - Column and Tension Member Design Introduction to Column Design Doubly Symmetric Column Design Single Angle Column Design Tension Member Design Chapter 9 Lessons Chapter 10: Steel - Combined Loading Design Introduction Single Axis Bending and Axial Tension Single Axis Bending and Axial Compression Eccentric Loading Biaxial Bending Biaxial Bending and Axial Compression Chapter 10 Lessons Chapter 11: Aluminum - Introduction and Tension Design Introduction to Aluminum Design Basics Aluminum Alloys and Tempers Aluminum Shapes Aluminum Design Basics Design of Aluminum Axial Tension Members Chapter 11 Lessons Chapter 12: Aluminum - Beam Design Introduction Aluminum Beam Design by Shape Hollow Rectangular Shapes Hollow Round Shapes I-beams Allowable Uniform Beam Loads Table Chapter 12 Lessons Chapter 13: Aluminum - Column Design Introduction Aluminum Column Design by Shape Hollow Round Shapes Hollow Rectangular Shapes I-beams Chapter 13 Lessons Chapter 14: Plywood Design Introduction Design Values Grading and Selection Designing for Uniform Loads Examples Stressed-Skin Panels Chapter 14 Lessons Chapter 15: Truss Design Introduction Three-Member Trusses Traditional Trusses Method of Joints Truss Construction Chapter 15 Lessons Chapter 16: Cable Design Introduction Point Load Cable Systems Curved Cable Systems Chapter 16 Lessons AppendicesA Geometric Properties of Common Shapes B Case Formulas C Sawn Lumber Reference Values D Steel Reference Values E Aluminum Reference Values F Plywood Reference Values G Useful information H Math Review I Answers to Even Numbered Problems References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile editionTrade Review“This handsome, erudite, and entertaining volume is in every way the perfect companion to Horace Walpole’s rarely recognized masterpiece.”—George E. Haggerty, University of California, Riverside“Every expert contribution to Staging ‘The Mysterious Mother,’ like every room of Horace Walpole’s Gothic Strawberry Hill, contains well-curated treasures.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University“This outstanding volume propels Horace Walpole’s Mysterious Mother out of the closet and onto the boards in illustrious fashion. Bringing the insights of brilliant scholars into conversation with both the shocking original and a masterfully cut text provides a daring provocation for us all to stage this ‘theatre of monstrous guilt.’”—Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois Chicago

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Book SynopsisOwning Our Voices offers a unique, first-hand account of working within the Wolfsohn-Hart tradition of extended voice work by Margaret Pikes, an acclaimed voice teacher and founder member of the Roy Hart Theatre.This dynamic publication fuses Pikes' personal account of her own vocal journey as a woman within this, at times, male-dominated tradition, alongside an overview of her particular pedagogical approach to voice work, and is accompanied by digital footage of Pikes at work in the studio with artist-collaborators and written descriptions of scenarios for teaching. For the first time, Margaret Pikes' uniquely holistic approach to developing the expressive voice through sounding, speech, song and movement has been documented in text and on film, offering readers an introduction to both the philosophy and the practice of Wolfsohn-Hart voice work. Owning Our Voices is a vital book for scholars and students of voice studiesTrade Review"An original member of the Roy Hart Theatre Company, Margaret Pikes’s autobiographical experience as a woman emerging from this historical, cultural and artistic context exposes the development of Wolfsohn’s seminal praxis through her work. Her reflective writing opens up and questions the dominant ideologies that she suggests ‘pervaded and steered the philosophy underpinning the Roy Hart Theatre’s approach to voice training. [...] A cultural craft, Owning Our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition (2021) from Pikes and Campbell opens important questions about western approaches to contemporary voice and speech training. [...] Pikes’s methodology and approach to voice training and performance furthers the possibility of not only discovering the practice of ‘freeing the voice’ but rather, a way of training that perhaps allows the individual to discover and ‘own’ their individual voice and give it expression." — Amy Rome, Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1: Why ‘Owning Our Voices?’; Feminist Approaches to Autobiography – A Preface to Part 1; Chapter 1: Early Life; Chapter 2: A Conscious Family: Voice Work at The Studio and Abraxas Club with Roy Hart; Chapter 3: The Private Becomes Public; Chapter 4: Life after Death: Malérargues; Chapter 5: Leaving Malérargues and Growing Independence; Chapter 6: Some Reflections; Part 2: Methodology; Preface to Methodology; The Pre-Verbal Voice – A Preface; Chapter 7: The Pre-Verbal Voice; Freeing the Voice – A Preface; Chapter 8: Freeing the Voice; The Role of the Teacher – A Preface; Chapter 9: The Role of the Teacher; Connecting Head to Body – A Preface; Chapter 10: Connecting Head to Body – the Importance of Movement; Group Work – A Preface; Chapter 11: Group Work; Working with Song – A Preface; Chapter 12: Working with Song; Conclusion: Owning Our Voices – A Pluriphony

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques necessary to the aspiring playwright. Comprised of a collection of memoirs and lectures which blend seamlessly to deliver a practical hands-on guide to playwriting, this book illuminates the elusive challenges confronting creators of dynamic expression and offers a roadmap to craft of playwrighting. Table of Contents1. The Twelve Habits of Successful Playwrights 2. A Room of Your Own 3. Fifty Questions to Ask When Writing A Play 4. Character 5. Dialogue: The Ways Our Characters Speak to Us 6. Location: Passports to Playwrighting 7. Endings 8. Rewriting 9. Journals 10. The Making of a Play: "Small Delegation" From Beijing to Home 11. Adapting From Fact and Fiction 12. The Do’s and Don’ts of Playwriting: What I Know to be True 13. Critics 14. The Education of a Playwright 15. What They Told Me: Advice on Writing and Other Vices 16. To Be A Playwright 17. Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGames for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone actors and non-actors alike! This new third English edition includes recently uncovered interviews and essays from the 1970s, some of which featured in the earliest Portuguese edition of this book, and a new essay by the theatre director Sergio de Carvalho, which looks at Boal's work in the context of Brazilian theatre and politics over the past fifty years.This is a vital handbook for theatre makers and activists of all kinds who want to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. It is also an excellent introduction for those new to the system.Trade Review'This is an inspiring and powerful book, a lucid account that will be of substantial use to people already using Theatre of the Oppressed. It should also act as an excellent introduction for those new to the system.' —Artscene'This is a useful handbook for those who want to explore Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and, as such, is greatly to be welcomed. Boal's work deserves and demands emulation.' —Theatre Research International'You have achieved what Brecht only dreamt of and wrote about: making a useful theatre that is entertaining, fun and instructive. It is a different kind of theatre – a kind of social therapy. It focuses the mind, relaxes the spirit and gives people a new handle on their situations.' —Richard SchechnerTable of Contents1 Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe 2 The Structure of the Actor’s Work 3 The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed 4 The Early Forms of Forum Theatre 5 Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incoprporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model 6 First Experiences with Invisible Theatre 7 Artistic Creation and Divine Madness: A Meditation on Art and the Miraculous 8 Interview for the Portuguese Edition (1977) 9 To the People, the means of Theatrical Production: Interview with Émile Copferman 10 Specialisation and Profession, Vocation and Language

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Book SynopsisThe sixth edition of Management and the Arts has been revised and updated with the latest concepts, theories, and practices to meet the evolving demands faced by arts managers in cultural organizations around the world.This comprehensive textbook covers a wide range of topics, including planning, strategy development, leading, marketing, fundraising, budgeting, finance, staffing, and operations. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach as it explores how arts managers and leaders can develop equitable, collaborative, and dynamic organizations that bring communities together to experience all the arts have to offer. It also includes illustrations, tables, tools, techniques, and case studies that can be applied in a wide range of visual and performing arts organizations. Each chapter features terms, learning outcomes, real world examples, and discussion questions designed to help students build skills, develop strategies, and understand options to consider in meetingTrade Review"William Byrnes’s Management and the Arts has always been an essential text for those studying arts management, arts administration, or arts and cultural leadership. I was impressed with the first version of this text 20 years ago and used it then as a framework for my teaching program. This latest version is even better, as it now includes international cultural references and case studies, as well as addressing critical issues around gender and race."Jo Caust, University of Melbourne, Australia"Besides an in-depth introduction of the key management principles for the arts and creative industries, this latest edition of Management and the Arts reminds arts managers of the importance of adaptability in today’s ever-changing arts ecosystem. This is a must-read book for all arts management students and practitioners."Benny Lim, Director, Master of Arts in Cultural Management programme, the Chinese University of Hong Kong"With this fully up to date and expanded edition, Management and the Arts re-establishes itself as the most important arts management textbook of our time. Adding many inventive pedagogical devices, links to additional important online and print resources, and an increased international perspective, this classic text continues to serve as a primary source of management wisdom for current and future arts leaders."Dr. Richard G. Maloney, Performing Arts Administration graduate program, New York University"As an educator and consultant, I’m often asked to suggest accessible, relevant, timely, and above all, practical resources. That describes this book. It was my go-to source, in an earlier edition, as a newly minted executive director. Those new to the field or more experienced should keep the latest edition at hand. It reflects the author’s continued standing in the field."Constance DeVereaux, Ph.D., Director and Associate Professor, Arts Leadership and Cultural Management, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents1. Arts Management Overview, 2. Arts Managers and the Practice of Management, 3. Adaptive Arts Organizations, 4. Planning and the Arts, 5. Organizing: Organization Design and Culture, 6. Staffing, Boards, and Volunteers, 7. Leading in the Arts, 8. Economics and the Arts, 9. Control: Operations, Budgeting, and Finance, 10. Marketing and the Arts, 11. Fundraising and Development, 12. Managing and the Arts

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Book SynopsisOff Headset is a collection of chapters containing essays by a richly diverse group of stage management professionals and educators covering the challenges stage managers face on the job, in their lives, and in their careers.The book starts with the intersectional history of stage managers and the actors'' union. In Part 1: Work, the contributors share a wide range of experiences, from regional theatre and Broadway to operas and cruisesand even running with the circus. The essays in Part 2: Life explore the relevance of stage managers claiming their identity, their resilience, and practicing self-care. Finally, in Part 3: Career, readers receive aspirational and business advice for life in the real world: leadership, networking, unemployment, managing demanding calendars, and career planning. The book ends with a moment of pause during techa direct response to the absence we have been enduring throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and a tribute to a world we used tTrade Review"Off Headset is a powerful collection of stories—a gift to fellow stage managers and the job we all love. The volume showcases a welcome range of voices to reflect on professional highlights and career arcs, to pose important questions about the industry in today’s world, and to consider our role as people and artists at the same time. It will be on my 'highly recommended' list as soon as it hits the shelves."Laurie Kincman, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, author of The Stage Manager’s ToolkitTable of ContentsPrefaceRafael Jaen and Christopher SadlerIntroduction. Intersectional History: Stage Managers’ in the Actors’ UnionJennifer Leigh Sears ScheierPart 1: Work1. The Big PictureJoseph Drummond2. Maximum FlexibilityTom Humes3. The Journey of a Thousand Steps Starts With a DreamMatthew Stern4. The "Smusedays" of Touring a Broadway Show!Kristi Ross-Clausen5. Running Away with Cirque du SoleilAlana Clapp6. Opera Stage Management 101Erin Joy Swank7. Off Headset at SeaCharlotte Sachetti8. A Mutualistic Symbiotic Model: Stage Manager and Designers’ Strong Ties and Participative IntentionsRafael Jaen9. The Art of ManagementJoanna Obuzor10. Stage Management is Only Just BeginningDavid McGraw11. Hold, Please: Addressing Urgency and Other White Supremacist Standards in Stage Management (HowlRound)Miguel Flores, R. Christopher Maxwell, John Meredith, Alexander Murphy, Quinn O’Connor, Phyllis Y. Smith, and Chris WatersPart 2: Life12. Stage Managing a Beautifully Complicated HistoryNikki Hyde13. Already Calm, I’m the Stage ManagerMichele Kay14. Life in the Real WorldAmanda Spooner15. "Was That a Go?" Lessons on Perseverance & ResilienceJay Sheehan16. A Multiplicity of Identities, On Headset and OffNarda E. Alcorn with Copy Editor and Proofreader Sam Tirrell17. The Fallacy of Figuring It All Out: Finding Grace in the Imperfect Attempts at BalanceJonathan D. AllsupPart 3: Career18. A Matter of PerspectiveRamón Valdez19. Maxwell, Brown, and Co.: Learning from Corporate ManagementChristopher Sadler20. On Networking and Making Connections: A New, Empty RolodexElynmarie Kazle21. From Stage Management to Production Management: One PathCary Gillett22. Unemployment: The Other Side of Being a Freelance Stage ManagerErin Joy Swank23. These Skills Are Made for WalkingTina ShacklefordAfterword. Moment of Pause—Tech, 09.26.20Evangeline Rose Whitlock

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Book SynopsisWhat makes us laugh? Why is comedy so important? How does comedy affect our behaviour?The Psychology of Comedy provides a unique insight into the role of laughter and humour in our lives. From the mechanics of comedy and what makes a good joke, to the health benefits of laughter, the book delves into different types of comedy, from slapstick to complex puns, and the physiological response it provokes. The dark side of comedy is also considered, confronting the idea that what is funny to some can be offensive to others, making this universal experience also highly subjective. In a time when comedy continues to be one of the most popular and enduring forms of art, The Psychology of Comedy reminds us that laughter really is good for the soul. Trade Review"Analysing comedy is like herding bubbles but this book is both a detailed study of the art of making people laugh and an entertainment in itself, and Neil Martin is an excellent bubble herder." - David Quantick, Emmy-winning writer of Veep; TV Burp, Brass Eye, The Thick Of It, On The Hour"Brilliant. The perfect guide to what’s going on in our heads while our faces are busy laughing"- Joel Morris, writer, the Ladybird book parodies, Viz, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Paddington, Philomena Cunk"A fun and informative romp that will put a smile on your face"- Professor Richard Wiseman, Professor of Psychology and creator of The Laugh Lab"I have often found that the secret to comedy lies in the unexpected. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy a psychology book but I really enjoyed this one."- Phil Hughes, writer, Thunderpants, I Love Candy"Many people don't realize how important comedy is across so many facets of our life. This is an entertaining and thorough compilation of everything and did and didn't want to know about comedy." - Kasha Patel, stand-up comedian and science writer for NASA."Analysing comedy is like herding bubbles but this book is both a detailed study of the art of making people laugh and an entertainment in itself, and Neil Martin is an excellent bubble herder." - David Quantick, Emmy-winning writer of Veep; TV Burp, Brass Eye, The Thick Of It, On The Hour"Brilliant. The perfect guide to what’s going on in our heads while our faces are busy laughing"- Joel Morris, writer, the Ladybird book parodies, Viz, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Paddington, Philomena Cunk"A fun and informative romp that will put a smile on your face"- Professor Richard Wiseman, Professor of Psychology and creator of The Laugh Lab"I have often found that the secret to comedy lies in the unexpected. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy a psychology book but I really enjoyed this one."- Phil Hughes, writer, Thunderpants, I Love Candy"Many people don't realize how important comedy is across so many facets of our life. This is an entertaining and thorough compilation of everything and did and didn't want to know about comedy." - Kasha Patel, stand-up comedian and science writer for NASA.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1An Introduction to the Psychology of ComedyCHAPTER 2Theories of comedy and laughterCHAPTER 3Individual differences in humour-sex, personality, culture and intelligenceCHAPTER 4Comedians and their personalitiesCHAPTER 5The uses of comedy i: health and therapyCHAPTER 6The uses of comedy ii: learning, marketing and advertisingCHAPTER 7Funny bones? The physiology and neurology of comedy

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Book SynopsisIn this compelling text, choreographer and psychotherapist Beatrice Allegranti invites the reader into the transdisciplinary Moving Kinship project. Moving Kinship spans a decade of practice-led research with people experiencing early onset dementia; Black feminist activists; psychotherapists; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer artists and activists; capoeiristas; and an international team of professional dancers and composers, musicians and scientists.Allegranti's practice is a more-than-collaboration: it involves accounting for deeply embodied and embedded oppression and privilege in the micro-relating of everyday life. She discusses this reckoning as a kin-aesthetic practice, and the message is foundationally feminist. The book opens possibilities for different registers of feminist justice and puts feminist new materialism, posthumanism and intersectional body politics to work in ways that affirm the paradox that every living thing moves everywher

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Book SynopsisThe English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 19001925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we've ever thought.Where the majority of writing on the early twentieth-century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is often seen as parochial and conservative mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in different ways: there's Florence Farr, independTable of Contents1. Experimental Theatre 2. Modernities 3. The Renovation of the Stage 4. Advanced Guards 5. Fantasy Play

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Book SynopsisTeaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and tested path to success in the classroom.Drawing on the knowledge and experience of the author's twenty-five years of teaching as well as many decades of work by multiple other educators, this book provides a clear roadmap for teaching these two popular Theatre courses. It includes information on pedagogical theory, creating syllabi, preparing and structuring classes, crafting lectures, and analyzing students' work, with a heavy focus on specific teaching projects that have been proven to work in the classroom. All aspects of teaching costume design and rendering are considered, including body awareness, cultural sensitivities, script analysis, elements and principles of design, psychology of dress, choosing fabrics, period styling, and requirements of dance costumes. Table of Contents1. Overarching Concepts 2. Structuring the Class 3. Costume Design: The Class 4. Costume Design Projects 5. Costume Rendering: The Class 6. Costume Rendering Projects 7. Connecting Costume Design and Fashion History Classes 8. Costume Design and Dance 9. Mentoring Student Costume Designers

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This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance, tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop, Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s, to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture.Chapters including âIconic Momentsâ and âMain Moversâ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers, choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonceâs choreographer), Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators), Rebbi Rosie (Rihannaâs dancer), Dean Lee (Janet Jacksonâs choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINKâs choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts, not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history, copyright law, inclusivity and dan

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary dance training in Britain from dance educators, scholars, practitioners and artists. Through examining the politics, values and ethics of learning dance today, this book argues for the need of a re-assessment of the evolving practices in dance training and techniques. Key questions address how the concept of âtechniqueâ and associated systems of training in dance could be redefined to enable the collaboration of skills and application of ideas necessary to twenty-first-century dance. The editors present these ideas in different modes of writing. This collection of essays, conversations Table of ContentsIntroduction: Noyale Colin & Cathy Seago; Section 1 – Ethics and Values; Chapter 1: Movement as a Social Project- Fiona Bannon; Chapter 2: Emergence -how do we assess / access becoming?- Adesola Akinleye; Chapter 3: Values, technique and creativity- Noyale Colin; Chapter 4: Democratizing dance: inclusion at the core of dance education and its impact- Betina Panagiotora; Chapter 5: African based dance technique in Higher education-Funmi Adewole; Section 2 – Practices; Chapter 6: Precision and Particularity- Jamie Dryburgh; Chapter 7: Embodying Unpredictability- Cathy Seago; Chapter 8: Digital Tools in Formal and Informal Dance Education Environments - Rosemary E. Cisneros, Marie-Louise Crawley, Karen Wood- Chapter 9: Improvisation and Spirituality in Dance- Eline Kieft; Section 3 – Conversations- Inclusive Practice Conversations; Chapter 10: Training for intergenerational dancing- Debbie Lee Anthony and Diane Amans; Chapter 11: Neurodiverse Collaborations: Changing perceptions of abilities in neuro-diverse populations- Caroline Hotchkiss; Chapter 12: Translating technique: Approaches to inclusive dance training in the UK- Imogen Aujila; Dance and Education Conversations; Chapter 13: Choreographic pedagogies: Training students’ experiences- Shantel Ehrenberg; Chapter 14: Choreography as technique- Sarah Alexander; Chapter 15: School Dance Teacher Roundtable- Noyale Colin & Cathy Seago; Independent Artist Conversations; Chapter 16: Training and citizenship- Stefanie Schober; Chapter 17: Training and solidarity- Charlotte Spencer; Chapter 18: Dance training and the potential of embodied practices- Henrietta Hale; Section 4 - Manifestos; Chapter 19: The End of Technique- Baptiste Bourgougnon and Lise Uytterhoeven; Chapter 20: Staying Alive: the dance technique class as a means for survival- Erica Stanton; Chapter 21: Dance training and the potential of strategies of self-organisation- Joe Moran

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Book SynopsisCharacters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing multifaceted accounts of the nature of screen characters, contributions are organized around a series of important subjects, including issues of class, race, ethics, and generic types as they are encountered in moving image media. These topics, in turn, are personified by such memorable figures as Cary Grant, Jon Hamm, Audrey Hepburn, and Seul-gi Kim, in addition to avatars, online personalities, animated characters, and the ensembles of shows such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.Trade Review"This book is a remarkably accessible collection of essays on some of the most theoretically complex aspects of actors and acting on film and in other media. It also covers a wide selection of films, TV-series, and computer games, making it a standard work in the fields of Cognitive Film Studies, Philosophy and Film, and even Celebrity Studies." --Erik Hedling, Professor, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsCONTENTS ; ;List of Figures ; ;Acknowledgments ; ;Notes on Contributors ; ;Foreword: Consorting with Characters ; Murray Smith ; ;Introduction: Screening Characters ; Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor ; ;Part 1: The Importance of Actors ; ;1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination ;Ted Nannicelli ; ;2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant ;Kathrina Glitre ; ;3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men ;R. Colin Tait ; ; ;Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts ; ;4. Being Typical and Being Individual ;Henry Bacon ; ;5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film ;Tico Romao ; ;6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film ;Dan Flory ; ; ;Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints ; ;7. Impossible Characterizations ;Paisley Livingston ; ;8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity ;Pete Sillett ; ;9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality ;Philippe Gauthier ; ;10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games ;Andreas Gregersen ; ; ;Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement ; ;11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents ;Carl Plantinga ; ;12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions ;Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan ; ;13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television ;Malcolm Turvey ; ; ;Part 5: The Character within Genres ; ;14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media ;Jinhee Choi ; ;15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero’s Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment ;Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen ; ;16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies ; Lennard Højbjerg ; ;Index ;

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Book SynopsisThe creative economy permeates our everyday lives, shaping where we live, what we buy, and how we interact with others. Looking at dimensions of people, place, policy, and market forces, the book offers a comprehensive perspective on arts and culture, in both economic and social life.The book explores the multifaceted components that make up this complex field. Underlying this journey is the throughline of diversity, equity, and inclusion as watchwords of today's global paradigm. Capital, gentrification, pay disparities, and the hegemonic confines of cultural production are a few of the key issues analyzed. Using case studies and stories of artists and creatives from the worlds of fashion, design, music, and the media arts, the book also delves into gastronomy, literature, architecture, and theatrepresenting a nuanced look at the ways in which the creative sector impacts the world today. Readers will benefit from features such as key takeaways, discussion questions, an

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Book SynopsisFlashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them.Combining a cognitive film theory approach with the theoretical framework proposed by blending theory, which claims that human beings' general ability for conceptual integration underlies most of our daily activities, this book argues that flashbacks make sense to the viewer, as they are specifically designed for the viewer's cognitive understanding. Through a mixture of analysis and dozens of case studies, this book demonstrates that successful film flashbacks appeal to the spectator's natural perceptual and cognitive abilities, which spectators exercise daily.This book will serve as a valuable resource for scholars interested in film studies, media studies, and cognitive linguistics.Trade Review"In conclusion, Gordejuela has put forward a book that is rich in content and that opens up new questions just as it answers its principal ones. As such, it is likely to spark productive discussions in many related research fields." - Federica CavalettiTable of Contents1. Introduction: a cognitive approach to film; 2. Flashbacks in film; 3. Blended joint attention; 4. Viewpoint compression; 5. Time compression; 6 The whole picture; 7 Conclusions

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Book SynopsisDrafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom: A Process-Based Introduction to Hand Drafting, Vectorworks, and SketchUp guides students through a syllabus-formatted semester of integrated drafting concepts and skills.This book links beginner visualization practices with fundamental software knowledge through step-by-step exercises and examples. By presenting hand drafting and Vectorworks through incremental exercises, students not only gain an understanding of the tools used in drafting but also learn why the tools, practices, and standards exist in the first place. SketchUp, a user-friendly 3D modeling program, is integrated into the various exercises to help readers visualize concepts and begin modeling their own ideas. By the end of the book, students will understand drawing construction techniques, United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)-recommended graphic standards, and the typical drawings created for entertainment design, preparing them to dive more deeply into the further complexities and opportunities of Vectorworks and SketchUp.Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom is written to complement a 14- or 15-week semester of an Entertainment Drafting course. The bookâs format also provides structure for independent and self-directed study.Table of Contents1. Where to Begin 2. Projection Systems and Line Style Context 3. Orthographic Visualization and Auxiliary Views 4. Dimensioning and Notation 5. The System of Working 6. Drafting Flats and Platforms 7. Drawing and Modeling the Plan of a Proscenium-Style Venue 8. Scenic Groundplans 9. The Center Line Section 10. The Scenic Front Elevation 11. Detail Plates 12. Drawings for Lighting Design 13. Drafting for Sound Design

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Book SynopsisLegal issues touch every aspect of organizations in the creative and cultural sectors. This book teaches non-lawyer, arts administration professionals and students how to identify and manage legal issues common to arts organizations.Legal Issues for Arts Organizations demystifies common legal problems and helps readers to approach them proactively. With an easy-to-remember âœissue-spottingâ process, the book helps develop the average administratorâs âœeyeâ for legal issues, so that the administrator knows when to do more research and when to seek out professional legal assistance. Written by a law professor and former intellectual property litigator with experience in arts policy and administration, this book provides a framework that arts professionals can use to navigate legal issues with increased confidence. It provides an overview of the American legal system, teaches a systematic process for identifying legal issues, trains administrators to read and understand contracts, gives practical advice for working with professional lawyers, and puts theory into practice with an applied learning component.Packed with practical tips and advice, this book provides a primer that every arts administrator and every arts- and nonprofit-management student will find immediately useful.A book adoption gift containing teaching support materials is available to instructors. To gain access, visit www.routledge.com/9780367771133.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving inand throughculture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active senseTable of ContentsIntroduction Jennifer Atkins and Carlee Sachs-Krook PART I: Popular Dance as Primary Source 1. Locating Popular Dance and Dance in Popular Culture Jessica Ray Herzogenrath and Bhumi B. Patel Chapter 1 Case Studies: The Invented Choreographies of the Tomahawk Chop Kellen Hoxworth Popular Dance Cultural Masters Ariyan Johnson Do the Hustle: A Saturday Night Reclamation Abdiel Jacobsen Bestowing Blessings and Cultivating Community: Lion Dancing in Boston’s Chinatown Casey Avaunt ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Watching from Another Place: Outside Perceptions of American Popular Culture Elena Benthaus and Dara Milovanović Chapter 1: Next Steps and Your Move! 2. Describing Dance, Writing Moving Worlds Dahlia Li Chapter 2 Case Studies: In the Interest of Health and Cooperation: Women Dancing "The Most Important College Interests" Jessica Ray Herzogenrath Dammn Baby! Janet Jackson Dances Pop Feminism Elizabeth Bergman Resistance in Rhythm: The Shim Sham Shimmy Kat Echevarría Richter Queerness, Closure, and the Finale Dance in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Miya Shaffer Chapter 2: Next Steps and Your Move! PART II: Stereotypes and Spectatorship 3. Interpreting (Multi)racial Movements in Popular Dance Miya Shaffer Chapter 3 Case Studies: From a Black Cinderella and Filipino Prince to a Career in Commercial Dance Beverly Bautista Plasticity in Lexus’s Black Panther Commercial: Choreographing Blackness as Other through Visual Echoing Kelly Bowker Riverdance: Remaking Race Natasha Casey ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ The Law of the Jungle: A Conversation with Philip Ancheta about Performing for Walt Disney World Chapter 3: Next Steps and Your Move! 4. Male Bodies and Masculinity in Popular Dance Brandon Calleja Shaw Chapter 4 Case Studies: Macho Sensibilities: A Dancer’s Autoethnographic Journey Yebel Gallegos The Nicholas Brothers: Dancing Masculinity in Down Argentine Way (1940) Pamela Krayenbuhl Manning the Pit: Techniques of White Masculinity in Hardcore Punk Moshing Emily Kaniuka Bey-Boy: Channing Tatum, Mimesis, and a Test of Masculinity Nicholas Richardson Chapter 4: Next Steps and Your Move! 5. Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV Juliet McMains Chapter 5 Case Studies: Subverting Body Ideals: Abject, Tactile Film Style in John Waters’s Hairspray Roxanne Hearn Dancing Girls and Dance Moms: Performing Femininity on the Dance Competition Stage Karen Schupp #Burberry and the Utility of Black Femininity Ronya-Lee Anderson Toying with Chauvinism: Parody in Anna Nikki’s Pole Classique Routine Carlee Sachs-Krook Chapter 5: Next Steps and Your Move! 6. Spectacle, the Gaze, and Agency in Popular Dance Colleen T. Dunagan Chapter 6 Case Studies: "Fosse Meets Fetish": When Fosse Goes (Really) Kinky Dara Milovanović Spectacular Choreographies of Epic Proportions: Ricki Starr the Ballet-Dancing Wrestler Laura Katz Rizzo Sparkling Subversion Catherine Cabeen Belly Dance as Restaurant Entertainment Somya Jatwani ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ "Far Across the Distance": A Competition Judge’s Perspective from behind the Table Madeline Kurtz Chapter 6: Next Steps and Your Move! PART III: Recognitions and Revisions 7. Popular Dance and Intersectionality Jeremy Guyton and Celeste Landeros Chapter 7 Case Studies: Naomi Osaka’s Hafuness and Polycultural Dance Moves Maïko Le Lay "Como La Flor": Selena’s Animation of Intersectional Identity Anabel Bordelon Gender Is a Drag: Performing Hybridity on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Maxi Challenge "Prancing with the Queens" Bhumi B. Patel ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Resistance, Resilience, Overcoming a Lot: Talking with NaTonia Monét about Performing in the Broadway Musical Tina Chapter 7: Next Steps and Your Move! 8. Mass Media and Social Circulations of Popular Dance Laura H. C. Robinson Chapter 8 Case Studies: "They’re the Same Picture": Repetition as Political Critique in Instagram Dance Memes Miya Shaffer Legitimization and Circulation of Hip-Hop Dance in "Real Talk: Hip-Hop Education for Social Justice" Maïko Le Lay "Just Stick to the Flamenco": Flamenco on NBC’s World of Dance Amy Schofield Dancing Doctors and TikTok Meme-ography: Pointing Toward Female Health Access Amanda Gabaldon ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Everybody has a Dream: Talking with Taz Loft about Filming In the Heights (2021). Chapter 8: Next Steps and Your Move! 9. Close Up: Step-Touch in New Orleans Popular Dance Rachel Carrico and Latanya D. Tigner Chapter 9 Case Studies: Is He… You Know… Aaron C. Thomas Meghan Trainor’s "All About That Bass": A White Girl’s Booty Anthem Colleen T. Dunagan B-Girl Sunny and the Performativity of the Gaze Sherril Dodds Varsity Spirit’s Propertied, White Settler Femininity Sammy Roth Chapter 9: Next Steps and Your Move! 10. The Politics of Popular Movements Irvin Manuel Gonzalez Chapter 10 Case Studies: New Deal Rhythm : Hollywood Chorus Girls Get Political Anna Waller "To Exist is to Survive Unfair Choices": The OA and Queer Acts of Protest Bhumi B. Patel Orderly Chaos: Moshing in SLC Punk! Adrian S. A. Manning Asserting Indigenous Agency Beyond Colonial Spatialities through RainbowGlitz’s Burlesque Love Medicine Evangelina Macias Chapter 10: Next Steps and Your Move! 11. Popularizing "American-ness" Tria Blu Wakpa Chapter 11 Case Studies: Ballet at the Movies or Dancing on the Limits of American-ness: Thalia Zanou Anna Leon Romanticizing the Old South in the Confederate Pageant Teresa Simone Experimenting with Lady J: A Trans Take on Drag J. Davenport, PhD Welcome to America: Reassigning Appropriation through Choreography in Soft Power Laura London Waringer ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ closet disco: a meditation Jeremy Guyton Chapter 11: Next Steps and Your Move!

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and online practice, diversity and inclusivity.With improvisation as his central concern Benjamin covers an extensive range of topics, including new autoethnographic writing, mental health, performance, feedback, and The Dancers' Forest, and interrogates what we mean when we talk about inclusive' and integrated dance.' There are over 50 stimulating and challenging exercises purposefully designed for dance students of all levels accompanied by teaching notes, and examples drawn from the author's experience as a teacher, performer, and dance maker. Useful hints are provided on the practicalities of setting up workshops covering issues such as class sizes, the safety aspects of wheelchairs and accessibility.Table of ContentsPart 1: Thoughts 1. Finding It When You Get There 2. Improv, Access and Training 3. Just Movement – Ethical Considerations 4. An Evolution in Practice 5. The Dancers’ Forest 6. I’d Rather be Snow – on Language, Impairment, Integration and Inclusivity 7. The Simpson Board and Lisa’s Journey 8. The Great Mistake – Response-ability, Grace and Clues to Practice 9. Tension Seekers – a Poet/Hunter’s Guide to Improvisation 10. Demons and Dragons – On Feeling Artistically Blocked 11. Life on the Edge – Dance and Mental Health 12. Is it Therapy? Part 2: Practice 13. An Unruly Location 14. An Introduction to the Improvisations 15. The Opening Circle 16. Getting Started 17. Listening Through Touch 18. Making an Entrance in Time and Space 19. Space, Time, Resting and Centre 20. A to B Scores 21. Talking Heads – Finding Voice in Dance Improvisation 22. Speed and Timing 23. Weight Sharing 24. Counterbalances and Chair Tilts: Dicing with Newtonian Physics 25. Frames, Eyes, Escaping the Screen 26. Live Music 27. Art and Dance 28. Improvisation, Choreography, Performance Part 3: Outside (the box) 29. Building Connections 30. Excerpts from an African Diary 31. The Fool’s Journey and Poisonous Mushrooms

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from international scholars of marketing and consumer studies, this renowned text engages directly with a range of contemporary themes, including: The importance of arts consumption and its socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions The impact of new technologies, platforms, and alternative artforms on the art market The importance of the aesthetic experience itself and how to research it The value of arts-based methods The art versus commerce debate The artist as entrepreneur The role of the arts marketer as market-maker This fully updated new edition covers digital trends in the arts and emerging technologies, including virtual reality, streaming services, and branded entertainment. It also broadens the scope of investigation beyond the West looking to film in emerging markets such as China, music in Sub-Saharan Africa, and indigenous art in Australia. Alongside in-depth theoreTrade ReviewMarketing the Arts: Breaking Boundaries is a breakthrough volume that serves as an important introduction for and update on the state of the field. The editors have succeeded in gathering a distinctive and diverse set of contributors who provide thoughtful reflections on the multitude of interactions between art and the market. Full of unexpected insights. Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA This second edition does important work for the field of arts marketing because it responds positively to broader demands for the social sciences to decolonise themselves and to address urgent progressive issues. This book, therefore, marks a signal moment for the field of Arts Marketing as its priorities shift. It is a necessary book and presents us with essential reading. Alan Bradshaw, Professor of Marketing, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKMarketing the Arts is, as the title suggests, a truly boundary breaking text. The cases and methods are wide ranging, topical and critical in their analysis, tackling such subjects as social justice to entrepreneurship. The authors do not just talk about the arts, but illustrate how the arts – dance, poetry, drawing, literature, can be used as tools for investigation. It is lively in its presentation and should be a valuable resource for students of marketing, the arts, media studies, sociology and arts management. A genuinely engaging read.Christina Goulding, Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham, UKI am delighted to learn about a new edition of Marketing the Arts edited by Finola Kerrigan and Chloe Preece. These editors have expanded the themes provided by the now-classic earlier edition to include a broadened geographical coverage (China, Nigeria, Australia); managerial applications (case studies, detailed illustrations); and attention to such inherently intertwined themes as the role of aesthetic experience, the art-versus-commerce tension, and the branding of artistic creations. Students of Arts Marketing will again benefit greatly from the insights provided. And, for those who favor food-related metaphors, "dessert" appears in the form of a delicious essay on Ernest Hemingway by the masterful prose stylist, Stephen Brown. Morris B. Holbrook, W. T. Dillard Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Columbia University, US Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketing the Arts- Breaking Boundaries 1. Arts Marketing, Social Justice Activism, and Government Messaging in the Age of Social Media 2. Arts Marketing & Entrepreneurship – Insights from the Nigerian Music Industry 3. Marketing Nigerian Films 4. Marketing art films in contemporary China: Between the rock of politics and the hard place of economy 5. Researching artistic production: The material turn in arts marketing research 6. Chapter 6: The Marketing of the Arts in the Age of Curatorial Production 7. Music Streaming and Surveillance Capitalism 8. Music festivals and the everyday nature of extraordinary experiences 9. Selling Secrets: the role of 'elusivity' in the liminoid invitations of immersive theatre 10. Consuming Cuba through dance: an embodied ethnography of Salsa 11. Poetic orientation for creating and writing 12. Drawing with women: ethical considerations from an art-based project on domestic violence 13. Accounting for the Selection of Exhibits: Examining the Organisation of Gallery Talks as a Marketing Activity 14. The Many Faces of Indigenous Art: Indigenous Art Market and Decolonizing Perspectives 15. Marketing through Art – The Case of Braded Entertainment 16. Virtual Reality, Film Marketing and Value 17. For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn:What Has Hemingway Ever Done For Us?

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Book SynopsisJim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Raz, and Mobile Phone Show. His extensive television and film work includes Road, Johnny Shakespeare, Vroom, Wedded, and King of the Teds.Trade ReviewA surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze. * Sunday Times *Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work, let alone a superb first play * Financial Times *the writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work it [is] absolutely seminal. * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThis major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity.Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:* ancient Greek theatre* Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, MoliÃre* the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama* the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz* romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, BÃchner, and Nestroy* the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski* the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, MÃller.Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;

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Book SynopsisCommunity theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people.Published at the same time as a video of the same name, this is a unique record of these theatre groups in action. Based on van Erven's own travels and experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different countries, this is the first study of their work and the methodological traditions which have developed around the world.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction 2. Philippine Community Theatre in the Nineties, Case Study: Teatro Balangaw, Marinduque 3. Community Theatre in the Netherlands, Case Study: Stut's Tears in the Rain 4. Community Theatre in Los Angeles, USA, Case Study: Teatro de la Realidad's Saquen la sopa ya 5. Collective Creation in Costa Rica Community Theatre, Case Study: Aguamarina, Puntarenas 6. Community Theatre in Kenya, Case Study: Kawuonda Women's Group, Sigoti, Kisumu District 7. Community Theatre in Australia, Case Study: Urban Theatre Project's Trackwork 8.Conclusions. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal's work is the first to look 'beyond Boal' and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory  Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology  to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal's project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible.The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will: expand readers'' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses provide a varieTrade Review'[An] engaging collection of essays ... a fine contribution.' – Contemporary Theatre Review Table of ContentsIntroduction Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of Brazilian Theatre (1954-79) Section 1: Sites Political Theatre: Staging the Political: Boal and the Horizons of Theatrical Commitment Pedagogy: Critical Interventions: The Meaning of Praxis Activism: Tactical Carnival: Social Movement, Demonstrations, and Dialogical Performance Therapy: Social Healing and Liberatory Politics: A Roundtable Discussion Legislating: Performing Democracy in the Streets: Participatory Budgeting and Legislative Theatre in Brazil Section 2: Tropes Art and Everyday Life: Action in Feminist Performance Art Storytelling: Redefining the Private: From Personal Storytelling to Political Act Metaxis: Metaxis: Dancing (in) the In-Between Aesthetic Space: Aesthetics Space/Imaginative Geographies Jok(er)ing: Joker Runs Wild Witnessing: Witnessing Subjects: A Fool’s Help Section 3: Ideologies Postcolonial Theory: Re-envisioning Theatre, Activism, and Citizenship in Neocolonial Contexts Feminist Theory: Negotiating Feminist Identities and Theatre of the Oppressed RaceTheory: Unperforming "Race": Strategies for Re-Imagining Identity Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Ãtienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautrà celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.Trade Review"...this is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship treating Lecoq's work, and any student of 20th-century theatre or the use of movement in performance will find this book invaluable." --TDRTable of Contents1 Imitation: from mimicry to miming 2 The gestures of life 3 From pantomime to modern mime 4 Has mime become separated from theatre? 5 Mime, the art of movement 6 The explosion of mime 7 The theatre of gesture and image

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer's craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of transcultural performance. It is the result of many years of research conducted by Eugenio Barba and the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) based in Denmark, and is now a classic foundational text. Whereas most Western research is concerned with naturalism and psychological realism in acting, the Dictionary focuses on the actor's arduous and eclectic craft. The Dictionary aims to expand our knowledge of the possibilities of the scenic body, and of the spectator's response to the dynamics of performance. The Dictionary has practical sections on balance, opposition and montage among other techniques, and discusses issues including The Text and the Stage, The Dilated Body and Energetic LaTrade Review'The entries in the Dictionary are fascinating flashbulbs, shedding light on myriad ways of performing – breathing in noh, eye movement in kathakali, balance in Indian bharatanatyam ... For actors grounded in 20th-Century American realism, this plethora of body-based ... information could prove (literally) eye-opening. Particularly persuasive is Schechner's essay on "restoration of behavior".' – American TheatreTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 A Z; Chapter 1 Anatomy; Chapter 2 Apprenticeship; Chapter 3 Balance; Chapter 4 Dilation; Chapter 5 Dramaturgy; Chapter 6 Energy; Chapter 7 Equivalence; Chapter 8 Eurasian Theatre; Chapter 9 Exercises; Chapter 10 Face and Eyes; Chapter 11 Feet; Chapter 12 Hands; Chapter 13 Historiography; Chapter 14 Montage; Chapter 15 Nostalgia; Chapter 16 Omission; Chapter 17 Opposition; Chapter 18 Organicity; Chapter 19 Pre-Expressivity; Chapter 20 Restoration of Behaviour; Chapter 21 Rhythm; Chapter 22 Set and Costume Design; Chapter 23 Technique; Chapter 24 Text and Stage; Chapter 25 Training; Chapter 26 Views;

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to fail in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatreâs potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure, Sara Jane Bailes begins with Samuel Beckett and considers failure in performance as a hopeful strategy. She examines the work of internationally acclaimed UK and US experimental theatre companies Forced Entertainment, Goat Island and Elevator Repair Service, addressing accepted narratives about artistic and cultural value in contemporary theatre-making. Her discussion draws on examples where misfire, the accidental and the intentionally amateur challenge our perception of skill and virtuosity in such diverse modes of performance as slapstick and punk.Detailed rehearsal and performance analysis are used to engage theory and contextualise practice, extending the dialogue between theatre arts, live art and postmodern dance. The result is a critical account of performance theatre that offers essential reading for practitioners, scholars and students of Performance, Theatre and Dance Studies.Trade Review'Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure illuminates a vital arena of contemporary art practice with a rare combination of rigor, respect, and insight.' - Una Chaudhuri, New York University'A crucial intervention into the politics of contemporary performance. It combines theoretical sophistication with a richly detailed engagmement with the experience of performance.' - Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London‘Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure represents a compelling and stimulating addition to current debates surrounding the turn against virtuosity and the appropriation of signs of amateurism in contemporary western experimental theatre and Live Art. This is the first monograph dedicated to the subject of failure in contemporary experimental performance, and its investigation is detailed and nuanced. This book will provide an invaluable resource for theatre-makers, scholars, and critics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students studying experimental performance and Live Art.’ – Sarah Gorman, Contemporary Theatre ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: Failure and Representation 2. World(s) after a Different Image: Marxism, Slapstick, Punk 3. Profane Illumination: Theatre and Forced Entertainment 4. News from Nowhere: Goat Island Performance Group 5. Dislocations of Practice: Elevator Repair Service 6. Afterword

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Book SynopsisActive Analysis combines two of Maria Knebel's most important books, On Active Analysis of the Play and the Role and The Word in the Actor's Creative Work, in a single edition conceived and edited by one of Knebel''s most famous students, the renowned theatre and film director, Anatoli Vassiliev. This is the first English translation of an important and authoritative fragment of the great Stanislavski jigsaw. A landmark publication.This book is an indispensable resource for professional directors, student directors, actors and researchers interested in Stanislavski, directing, rehearsal methods and theatre studies more generally.Trade Review"Maria Knebel's contribution to contemporary actor training is invaluable and to date, somewhat under-estimated. This much anticipated book – thoughtfully edited by Vassiliev and sensitively translated by Irina Brown – brings crystal-clear understanding of Stanislavsky's innovative 'active analysis' into sharp focus and easy implementation." Bella Merlin, actor and professor at the University of California, Riverside, USATable of ContentsTRANSLATOR’S NOTE by Irina Brown; BEGINNINGS by Anatoli Vassiliev; ABOUT MARIA KNEBEL by Adolf Shapiro; Part I BOOK ONE: ACTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PLAY AND THE ROLE; Part II BOOK TWO: THE WORD IN THE ACTOR’S CREATIVE WORK; Part III I AM MICHAEL CHEKHOV’S STUDENT Chapter Two from My Whole Life by Maria Knebel; Part IV APPENDICES; Index

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Book SynopsisPina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice, helping to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material and contextual essays that examine Pina Bausch''s history, practice and legacy, and the development of Tanztheater as a new form, with sections including: Dance and theatre roots and connections; Bausch's developmental process; The creation of Tanztheater; Bausch's reception; Critical perspectives. Interviews, reviews and major essays chart the evolution of Bausch's pioneering approach and explore this evocative new mode of performance. Edited by noted Bausch scholar, Royd Climenhaga, The Pina Bausch Sourcebook aims to open up Bausch's performative world for students, scholars, dance and theatre artists and audiences everywhere.Trade Review'Climenhaga's book...is not yet another omnibus volume, collecting essays from a symposium. It is a complex and excellent edited sourcebook that ties together traces of written memories which have been slumbering in archived magazines or newspapers - waiting to be woken up from a 30-year sleep. Ultimately, The Pina Bausch Sourcebook - The Making of Tanztheater is a source in itself and can be marked as a 'Survey of Remembering Tanztheater'. As a glance at ways of 'Remembering Dance', this book is an indispensable contribution to the (still to be broadened out) research literature on dance for every scholar and student working in the field of dance history and theory. It focuses on and highlights the roots, aesthetics and methods of the German Tanztheater as well as its followers from the 1960s until today. It is a also a source for the reader who seeks to deeply research, ask further questions and continue her or his own path of reflecting on the Wuppertaler Tanztheater and the dance as art form in general.'TheaterforschungTable of ContentsContents. List of figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. I. Dance and Theatre Roots and Connections. II. Creating Bausch’s World. III. Tanztheater – A New Form. IV. Bausch’s Reception. V. Critical Perspectives. Bibliography. Index.

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