Art - Performance

A poetic soundtrack. A cinematic lineage. A woman becoming in full bloom.The Peach Symphony is a luminous collection of poetry, memory, and music, layered in movement, emotion, and sensory color. Christina Victoria composes an intimate world where Southern roots, sacred softness, womanhood, ancestry, and...

Discover the poetics of salt, where art, memory, and migration transform our understanding of this everyday substance. While histories of salt have long emphasized its central role in trade, power, and capitalism, is that the only way to understand this everyday substance? In Salted...

A transdisciplinary exploration of English punctuation's power and limits, this book invites readers and performers to reimagine and transform the rules that shape language and identity. Performing Punctuation is a transdisciplinary collaboration that challenges the colonial legacy embedded in the English language's use of...

Have you ever watched a fire eater and thought-how do they do that? Or maybe a quiet voice inside you even wondered, Could I ever do something like that?This book is both an answer to that question, and an invitation.In this raw and riveting...

The Quantum Vocalist: The Singer's Formula to Vocal Balance and Bliss.The author Faith Powers shares decades worth of research and practice that Powers has put into perfecting the human vocal ability & her method has helped improve the voices of many celebrated artists. Powers...

The Masquerade Handbook was developed in 1991 to help those wonderful people who volunteer to run science fiction and fantasy masquerade competitions. The art of competitive costuming had blossomed over the previous decade, and the complexity associated with the masquerade had also grown. The...

The Mime Handbook covers the theory of mime corporel (Corporeal Mime) and explains the technique through dozens of clearly illustrated exercises. It provides an overview of the work and life of Etienne Decroux (1889-1991), founder of the 'mime corporel' and father of modern mime....

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's...

The cultural and scientific significance of animal magnetism as performance.The long nineteenth century bears the mark of Anton Mesmer. In a burgeoning media landscape, and in an emerging entertainment culture that fashioned growing numbers of people into audiences, the performative qualities of Mesmer's magnetic...

Tracing the Turkish performance artist's practice from Ankara to New York, presenting his artworks alongside a series of manifestosPerformance artist Salim Özgilik (born 1966), also known as Moni, is famous for his performances and "happenings" across Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s. This publication...

Examines Raf Simons's groundbreaking impact on menswear, showing how his designs challenge gender norms and use fashion as cultural commentary on modern masculinity. Raf Simons: Fashion, Communication, and Modern Masculinity offers an in-depth look at how Raf Simons, through his bold and boundary-pushing designs,...

"Few books blend the critical and creative approaches to drag performance this provocatively and engagingly, and none provides both the historical and the personal perspectives so effectively. Torr and Bottoms fundamentally challenge many long-standing ideas about drag kings and the performance of masculinity."---Sarah Bay-Cheng,...

Gina Pane (1939-1990) is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through live works or Actions she began in the late 1960s.She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her...

Challenging the myths, silences, and stereotypes of motherhood through the live body in performance. Matrescence and Performance examines what performance can do to challenge and expand conventional representations of becoming a mother. Across art history and literature, maternal bodies, along with the processes of...

Have fun coloring these 50 FLOWER MANDALAS TO COLOR from Dr. Deuce. This coloring book has 50 flower mandalas to get you in the flow state and on the relaxing road. Give yourself tons of meditative stress relief. Dr. Deuce's coloring books will help...

This is it, word for word, all the things I said on stage during a stand-up show. It is now 17,400 words long and is sure to grow as I keep breaking out the boxes of old tapes..Author: Mike DonovanISBN-13: 9798707850509Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book will teach your kid how to draw animals in an easy and fun wayNo cabins are clear and simple with lines of guidanceAuthor: LIDI ColoISBN-13: 9798564546423Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2020Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.35d

If you ever wanted to know the real story of how Kathak originated and its evolution prior to the medieval age then this book is for you. Journey of Kathak: In Conversation with Dr. Puru Dadheech - Part 1 traces the journey of Kathak...

We stay in a media culture, with battles of ideas and values. While artists and everyday humans might lack the political and monetary energy to implement changes, they possessed the ability to have an effect on feelings and thoughts via their work of acting...

A comedic parody of the classic film "The Breakfast Club," formatted for the stage.Author: John RobisonISBN-10: 1986269140ISBN-13: 9781986269148Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2018Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.12d

Alfred Jarry first presented his absurdist, expletive-filled play King Ubu in Paris in 1896, and instantly ignited a literary scandal. King Ubu not only influenced artistic movements such as Dada, Surrealism, and the Absurd Theater of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett, but it anticipated,...

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Author: Kenneth Jon Dixon IqkjISBN-10: 1981077324ISBN-13: 9781981077328Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2018Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

Based on the novel, Levi's Reverse Wave Absorption, this screenplay shows how the most innocent of good intentions can be twisted, turned, and ultimately transformed into a venture taken over by those whose only motivators are fame and greed. When a bright Amish college...

In Hyper Effigy, Getnick forwards caricature as a magical language; a grammar of soldiers, trolls, terrorists and skeletons, equipped to dislodge propagandistic representations of the other from their historical ideological functions.Hyper Effigy is an exhibition catalog from Brian Getnick's show Hyper Effigy at General...

With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it's hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the...

"I came to the city. I saw the people were filthy. And those who were not filthy were still filthy..." Sodom. The day before the city's total annihilation. Among the grimy tables of a run-down café, an angel tells Lot that God wants him...

May is an idealist. She's fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer.But as the enemy pass one by one before her unflinching lens...

Secret terror cells, political conspiracy, police bungling, state-sponsored bomb plots... This is London, 1896. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's classic novel, The Secret Agent is theatre O's heartbreaking and hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism. Set at a time of social upheaval and growing...

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER! Do you ever wonder how to stay safe in your pursuit to be a model or actor? If the answer is yes, Airica D. Kraehmer is here to guide your way. As the survivor-activist and nationally known bestselling author, Airica Kraehmer...

Notebook chosen by those who draw in pencil or paint, ideal as a gift for art lovers.Perfect 6"x 9" size120 white pagesSoft cover bindingflexible coverageAuthor: Sophia AmalfiISBN-10: 1708067825ISBN-13: 9781708067823Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2019Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d

This book was written in one session from a sober state to drunk. The purpose was to capture and record ideas, thoughts and realizations which came to my mind during different alcohol intoxication stages. It's a social experiment. I wanted to share the experience...

"As for me, life is not simply a journey to take; it's not an event you just happen to be in. No; it's an odyssey filled with purposeful stages and their outcomes are what you make of them. "-L.Terrell"I'm Leaving..." is the first installment...

In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they're back, live on stage, only for them, it really has to be The Full Monty. Simon Beaufoy, the...

Takes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer grief What if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? Unfinished Grief invites readers to linger within loss...

Examines Raf Simons's groundbreaking impact on menswear, showing how his designs challenge gender norms and use fashion as cultural commentary on modern masculinity. Raf Simons: Fashion, Communication, and Modern Masculinity offers an in-depth look at how Raf Simons, through his bold and boundary-pushing designs,...

This book considers the notion of 'historical escapism' through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to quell contemporary anxieties, and to confront generational traumas.Author: Lydia EdwardsISBN-10: 1032935480ISBN-13: 9781032935485Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages:...

HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THE REAL WORLD OF ACTING AND PERFORMING ARTS This evidence-informed roadmap shows you how to thrive in an industry where rejection is part of the job and only 2 per cent of actors make a living from performing....

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context.The collection compiles...

In the last edition of ABCs & 123s, the author was penned as SM Blackwell, and as you may have noticed, she is now going by MS Blackwell. It's the same author, she just decided instead of SM Blackwell (for S. Michelle Blackwell, her...

The Camp is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an Irish playwright and politician. It was first performed in 1778 and is a satirical comedy that pokes fun at the fashionable society of the time. The play is set in a military camp...

*Drama for Young Performers* is a collection of five plays and six performance poems written for youngsters between 11 to 18 years old. These are intended to develop drama skills as well as to educate and provoke thought. Ideal for a big production, assemblies...

More than 3,600 works by a titan of Italian postwar art, spanning paintings, conceptual installations, films, performances, text-based art and moreOne of the leading figures of the postwar Italian avant-garde, Fabio Mauri (1926-2009) was a multifaceted figure--visual artist, writer, educator and publisher--whose work is...

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Performance functions as a diversion from unsavoury realities. In this way, Pedro Almodóvar's 2013 film I'm So Excited adopts a strategy...

Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater is the first published collection of the work of playwright and artist Asher Hartman and his Gawdafful National Theater company. The book includes three plays by Hartman: Purple Electric Play (PEP!), Mr. Akita,...

An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. Following...

An eccentric artist's book that invites the reader to follow its exploratory process of association-building among objects, ideas and peopleGuiding the reader on an associative journey led by Dutch conceptual artist Cindy Moorman (born 1976), I and the Others sees the artist assume the...

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture--not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways...

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art Performance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone can take part or bear witness. Beyond the Moment shows how Latinx artists have responded with...