Art - Performance

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via LUP's website and OAPEN. Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions,...

Making Hip Hop Theatre is the essential, practical guide to making hip-hop theatre. It features detailed techniques and exercises that can guide creatives from workshops through to staging a performance. If you were inspired by Hamilton, Barber Shop Chronicles, Misty, Black Men Walking or...

Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts.In Inclusive Arts Practice Alice Fox and Hannah Macpherson interview artists, curators and key...

Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. This work situates feminist performance art in the US and Canada in the social context of the feminist movement. Highlighting the important contributions of women artists, it shows...

As stories of Indian dance's renaissance span almost a full century, there has emerged a globally dispersed community of Indian dancers, scholars and audiences who are deeply committed to keeping these traditions alive and experimenting with traditional dance languages to grapple with contemporary themes...

Chaos, crisis, and change are recurring themes in life. You might fear the chaos, operate in constant crisis, or resist change. But that is an exhausting way to live. So how do you find resilience and gratitude through the turmoil of life?Despite living through...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world, including movements growing across Latin...

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mauricio Castro is the founder of Tango Discovery and [is] a renowned dancer and teacher of Argentine Tango. He created and developed a personal style of dancing and teaching tango in Buenos Aires and then, through Tango Discovery, he...

Find a good way to REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY, IMPROVE MOTOR SKILLS AND VISION, IMPROVE SLEEP and IMPROVE FOCUS here Pastel in Real Life, is the Coloring Book for Adults (Indeed for You ), here's what you'll find in this book.There are 50 Beautiful...

Find a good way to REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY, IMPROVE MOTOR SKILLS AND VISION, IMPROVE SLEEP and IMPROVE FOCUS here Pastel in Real Life, is the Coloring Book for Adults (Indeed for You ), here's what you'll find in this book.There are 50 Beautiful...

Author: Bertie FerdmanISBN-10: 1350336165ISBN-13: 9781350336162Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2022Pages: 320Format: Paperback

Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they...

Scenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance...

Capture the essence of acting with this quick, easy-to-follow acting guide for elementary school!Are you teaching an acting class or setting up a school play but don't know where to start?Looking for an easy way to introduce acting to elementary kids so they can...

EN MAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic...

Four decades of multimedia exploits in race, art politics and subjectivity: a long-overdue survey on conceptual performance artist Lorraine O'GradyConceptual performance artist Lorraine O'Grady burst into the contemporary art world in 1980 dressed in a gown made of 180 pairs of white gloves and...

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives. Experiencing life...

This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into what it means to Feel and its importance in people's everyday lives. Experiencing life...

The Smith & Wisznia collection's singular focus: artists living, working and exhibiting in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana during this period of renewal, rebirth, and rebuilding experienced an art renaissance. There was a migration of creatives from all areas of life to Louisiana: Musicians,...

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Bringing together expertise from different disciplines, the book provides an in-depth investigation of the development of documentation as a...

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture.Taking the...

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking...

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational "unbelonging"? What is the relevance of "dyke chords" in Chicana feminist punk and lesbian dissolution?...

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational "unbelonging"? What is the relevance of "dyke chords" in Chicana feminist punk and lesbian dissolution?...

The artists of Die Damen (founded in 1987)--Ona B., Evelyne Egerer, Birgit J rgenssen, Ingeborg Strobl, Lawrence Weiner--stage socially critical, feminist performances, events and parodies. This catalogue presents the first comprehensive study of the numerous projects realized by these pioneers of performance.Author: Die DamenISBN-10:...

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of...

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Finding parallels between the tactility of a...

Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies. Edited by his friends and associates Klaus Biesenbach,...

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways...

A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality performance. Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists is employing digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed,...

We are obsessed with celebrities. Our culture is shaped by celebrities and celebrities are shaped by our culture. Who hasn't wondered what it would be like to be rich and famous? What if you were bombarded by people wanting your autograph or photo? An...

This interdisciplinary scholarly catalog examines Motherland, an important series of photo-performances by the acclaimed artist Pushpamala N. on the Indian nation personified as woman, mother, and goddess. The series shows Pushpamala taking on Mother India's myriad personifications: nubile beauty and saintly renunciant; militant goddess...

How urban spaces are finding new life through communities of gardeners, cooks, ceramicists, and creatives. "Rochester Square is an oasis between the trundling traffic of Camden Road and busy York Way that welcomes people of all ages, at all hours and in all weathers,...

Author: Jan Cohen-Cruz, Rad PereiraISBN-10: 1613321554ISBN-13: 9781613321553Publisher: New Village PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2022Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly employed in magical performances, particularly in street magic. This book contains the third in the series of handbooks on...

This book contains the first in the series of handbooks on card manipulation by master magician Jean Hugard. Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly employed...

Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Gu馘iguian is the result of one of the most original and coherent projects in contemporary French cinema: to make a committed, historically-conscious cinema, in a local space,...

Performing the jumbled city is a complex artefact beyond its own materiality. Linked to a dedicated website hosting additional audio-visual materials, the book acts as a connecting device allowing an exchange between texts, audio-visual materials, and original artworks, situating it in the emerging field...

The Actor's Tool Kit: The Beginning Actor's Practical Guide to Acting is a beginning acting textbook that can be used in class or individually. It highlights the KIP System of training for beginning and intermediate acting students. Ardencie Hall-Karambe, Ph.D. formulated the KIP System...

This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary, intermedial art practice. Exploring the disciplinary identity of dance in dialogue with the visual arts, this book...

This book presents a twelve-step program for developing your own original magical effects. The first chapters discuss the traits and characteristics psychologists have identified in creative people. These characteristics should be developed to open your mind to the creative thinking process. Then the reader...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies...

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the PresentExplores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the PresentExplores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a...

A wide-ranging survey of the theory, history and practices of Immersive Theatre, including original interviews with major artists and companies Author: Josephine MachonISBN-10: 1137019840ISBN-13: 9781137019844Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2013Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2014

Following their acclaimed shows On Ego, On Religion, On Emotion and On Love the On Theatre now tackle empathy, in an exploration of the expanse and limits of our capacity to understand one another. Bea is lively, naughty and full of life. When she...

This publication consists of a conversation between Czech artists Zbynek Baladr n (born 1973) and Jir Kovanda (born 1953), in which they discuss everything from the fifteenth-century Voynich Manuscript to ornithology, zoology and the films of Fellini.Author: Zbynek Baladr疣ISBN-10: 3037643420ISBN-13: 9783037643426Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage: EnglishPublished:...