Art - Performance

If you are an aspiring actor with dreams of becoming a success like Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and the likes, then this is the step-by-step blueprint for you. Here's what you get: - You will discover the secrets about the acting industry.-...

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights. By juxtaposing portrayals of significant events...

A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys--from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar. For nearly two decades, Polish-born, UK-based artist Magda Stawarska has explored the threshold of memory, the sanctioned...

Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles. This theoretical perspective repositions queer sexualities in the context of...

A collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as The Artist Is Present (2010), where she...

Captivating documentation of Fernandes's childlike installation and performance that draws upon games such as hide-and-seek and follow-the-leaderThis publication is an intimate exploration of the titular installation and performance by Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979), fusing photographic documentation, architectural drawings, an original dance score,...

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one's arts career as a business. Author: Kirstin Ch?vez, Johnathon PapeISBN-10: 1032600772ISBN-13: 9781032600772Publisher: Focal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2024Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

A choreographed tour through urban landscapes interrogates the ways in which human bodies clash with built environmentsComplementing his multicity project Bodies in Urban Spaces, Urban Drifting documents Austrian artist Willi Dorner's (born 1959) dance-oriented guides through urban environments. Described as "a moving trail for...

Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian...

Anthology and compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, lyrics, scripts, essays, fiction, and artist's commentary for Praxinoscope: Hours of the Day, performed October 12, 2022 at Poetic Research Bureau, 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, California, United States.Author: Derek Denckla, Xárene EskandarISBN-10:...

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...

Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four...

A seven-decade retrospective on the Destruction Art pioneer, Museo del Barrio founder and theorist of EthnoaestheticsThis comprehensive survey is published for El Museo del Barrio's 2022 exhibition on the American artist, activist, educator and founder of El Museo del Barrio, Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born...

"All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited- one that tears both their...

A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations, and Cry, he is widely recognized...

When singing KARAOKE, it's time to look YOUR BEST Here are 102 T-Shirt Designs to express your philosophy about singing.Author: David Wright, Benny PhisherareeISBN-10: 1492155594ISBN-13: 9781492155591Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2013Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

Karaoke singer and artist, Benny Phisheraree wants you to look your best when performing. He has created over 100 T-Shirt designs to help you express your singing philosophy.Author: David Wright, Benny PhisherareeISBN-10: 1492162795ISBN-13: 9781492162797Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2013Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h...

Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitionerFor Breaking Protocol, transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield embarked on a research project on the protocols of Indigenous performance--tracing Indigenous knowledge systems, land-preservation practices and feminist scholarship to illuminate strategies for enacting refusal within decolonial...

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Hoping to discover the truth about their origins, the last clan of free women liberate the ancient journal of their ancestor, Nebia. Besieged by armies and running out of time, they seek to unravel an age-old mystery they hope will ensure freedom for their...

In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in...

Do you want to be part of the growing audiobook industry? Are you an indie author looking to expand your readership? Learn how to narrate and produce your own professional quality audiobook within a budget. I won't bore you with a list of my...

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate...

Description: A sensitive but cranky kid is born to a religious mid-western family. Due to the location and time period (1950s), he is safe roaming about on his own at almost any age, and gravitates to activities like sports, chasing skirts, and even farm...

Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of...

New documentation of Joseph Beuys' controversial performance pieceMay 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Beuys' infamous piece of performance art staged in New York City: I Like America and America Likes Me. The premise--a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a...

Jen, 30, is obsessed with personal branding and determined to break the glass ceiling to achieve her #girlboss destiny. Thad, 28, reminds himself "Today is an ordinary day, today is an ordinary day," to quell his waking fear of untimely death. Kat, 25, has...

Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad.Most of these poems bubbled up unbidden. Some were scribbled on an envelope to be performed at a poet's breakfast, some for slam competitions, or inspired by a...

In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in...

In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements-many of which are appearing in English for...

'Tell me, please - is this a dream?'The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory. But when the...

An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions. In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the...

The first major retrospective of Yoko Ono in a decade foregrounds her impact on activism and invites readers to engage dynamically with her work Yoko Ono (b. 1933) firmly established herself as a leading figure in the Fluxus movement by the mid-1960s. Since that...

Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an artistic practice, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. It also provides guidance on how to analyze and discuss walking artworks, with vocabulary support, over...

"If you really want to understand me, it is necessary to see my life from the beginning." This comment by Slovakian aartist J疣 Mancuska (1972-2011) is not intended to encourage the audience to track down the artist's concrete biographical details (that of a subject...

Includes the plays Trafford Tanzi, The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble and The Seduction of Anne Boleyn Trafford Tanzi began as a pub show in Liverpool. It has since been performed all over the world and translated into a dozen languages. It plays...

Author: Saara TainaISBN-10: 0768413222ISBN-13: 9780768413229Publisher: Destiny Image IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2016Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Colorful mappings of choreographic ideasSoloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings serve...

Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four other countries while also establishing and maintaining a nationally known puppetry center in West Liberty, Iowa. My memoir traces its history and explores the relationship between work and play, between loss and recovery, between...

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the...

A collection of articles selected from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated here for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. Part of the Intellect China...

Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. 62 b&w...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor of Intellect's Applied Theatre Research journal, with significant and substantial new material. First and foremost a critical reader for today's applied theatre practitioners and scholars. 7...

Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1554814499ISBN-13: 9781554814497Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as...

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as...

A family bent on revenge travels to a foreign land to seek the aid of a dragon but discover that a knight has slain it and is still trapped beneath the carcass. In exchange for their help, Sir Ekinroy vows to confront the man...

A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked.A night out. Friends, alcohol, a shit club, a strop - the usual. But tonight is different. Tonight will change things forever.With Love Steals us from Loneliness, Gary Owen, one of Wales's foremost...