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Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific, and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance...

Formed in Boston in 2001, Arcade Fire quickly relocated to Montreal and started performing in art galleries and lofts while hoping for a record deal. The early line-up quickly changed following rifts, first between co-founder Win Butler and Myles Broscoe, then between Butler and...

Magicians use more than just mirrors, string, and sleight of hand to deceive their audience. Those who are masters at this trade have developed an arsenal of techniques to manipulate people. Every action and utterance on stage and off is precisely planned to achieve...

Approaching the avant-garde Japanese performance art form of butoh from a cross-cultural, gender studies, and scientific perspective, award-winning artist and teacher Vangeline brings a fresh look at this postmodern dance form. Butoh, a performance art form that grew out of the Japanese avant-garde scene...

Six humorous plays written between 1952 and 1968 by Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001), two of which have never before been published. This collection includes the following: Untitled Play (1952), Standing on a Streetcorner (1953), Sarpedon (1954), In This Hung-Up Age (1954), JFK (1960),...

Richard and Rachel, a well-off California couple, have everything except a child. They locate Wanda and Al, a desperately poor couple in Louisiana, who agree to let them adopt their next baby. Both parties do their best to make the arrangement work, but their...

This book is written not to denigrate, but to bring forth a degree of understanding. The world needs to read the truth about what a system of thought did in turning a human being who reached his potential into a person who was denied...

This is a reference book about the television series Longstreet, which ran from 1971-72 and starred James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet, a blind insurance investigator. The book includes all 23 episodes in release date order Including the pilot film), numerous photographs, complete cast listings,...

Delving into the rude, serious, anarchic and hilarious, Searby highlights Mayall's spectrum of work - not the rumours or an attempt to uncover the deeply private life he led but the more intricate moments that were twisted into creations to make people laugh and...

History of the Oregon Country Fair from 1980s to mid-1990s continuing the story started in "Fruit of the Sixties." Stories of wacky vaudevillians, talented crafters, marching musicians, and a wild assortment of volunteers who pull the fair together every year in consensus-driven community.Author: Suzi...

A selection of English-language writings by Enrique Lopetegui, former Los Angeles Times Latin Pop music critic (1993-1997, freelance) and San Antonio Current news writer and music/film editor (2008-2014). Foreword by Gloria Guerrero, legendary dean of female rock writers in Argentina. It includes interviews with...

Ladies and Gents by Chinny George is a guide to love and relationships for men and women. Chinny George describes herself as 'a promoter of love and a huge fan of wisdom as well'. Chinny George gives lots of advice regarding relationships and how...

Four short plays drawing on Shakespeare's works and our modern-day use of them. In 'Twenty-Minute Tragedy', minor cast members take over a production of Timon of Athens and lead it in a new direction. 'Sprite Fight' takes place backstage at a production of A...

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Since coming to power, President Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) have focused on narrating their vision of a 'New Turkey' - an ideal that has resulted in the politicisation of popular culture and people's everyday lives. Exposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite...

A Russian Jew who spent most of his life in England and America, Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was a theater critic and literary translator. He was also an innovative theorist who applied to theater the discourse of self-reflexive modernism, prizing anti-illusionist medium-awareness. Indeed, he was...

How have shows like Fiddler on the Roof, Falsettos, A Raisin in the Sun, and Hair fought for social justice through art? Who are the groundbreaking artists whose names have been forgotten but should be remembered? What are the funniest bloopers from Les Mis...

Here are compositions by Eric Satie who combined the simple, tuneful melodies of Parisian nightlife with the snappiness of American Jazz, Satie created a new style of musical burlesque which made a lasting impression on many contemporary composers. Transcribed for the baritone ukulele or...

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Are you searching for something to do during your weekend? Look no further! Enjoy hours of crossword puzzle fun with Will Smith's Easy Crossword Puzzles ! Science shows that people middle-aged or older who solve word games and brainteasers have a significant cognitive advantage...

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Finally there is a textbook that analyzes the other half of the music industry. With a valuation of nearly $17 billion dollars, the music products industry is often overlooked by music business students searching for a career.Author: Carl AndersonISBN-10: 1365073602ISBN-13: 9781365073601Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2016Pages:...

Piano Chords by Encore Music Books is a 100 page book containing a total of 348 different piano chords for the pianist of any level. Every page in this book is specially designed to help you better understand each chord. For example, at the...

NCIS... One of history's most popular television shows. 'NCIS', 'NCIS: Los Angeles', & 'NCIS; New Orleans' have taken the world by storm for more than a decade. Unique storylines, interesting characters, and quick witted scripting make them a series to be remembered for years...

Do you use your voice for work?Do you want to become a better voiceover actor, singer, or public speaker?This book, written by well-known and respected voice talent Rodney Saulsberry, contains fun and challenging tongue twisters and vocal warm-ups that prepareyou to read commercial, promo,...

"A persuasive argument that Presley's "moonshot" to fame could not have happened without Florida. . . . Deftly captures a pre-Interstate Florida where an anonymous Presley would be traveling for grueling hours down every two-laner in the state in his signature automobile."-Palm Beach Post...

When Bach's cantatas, masses, passions, and chorales were originally performed under the composer's direction, which instruments played the basso continuo, the line that establishes the harmonic framework? Bach's Continuo Group answers this and other fundamental questions and probes the rationale behind Baroque performance conventions.Author:...

So you want to be a rock star. Or the next pop sensation. Or a country music artist. Or perhaps you're more intrigued by vital roles behind the scenes. The Realist's Guide to a Successful Music Career reveals all the ins and outs of...

This hugely successful retelling of the fall of Sir Thomas More has gained plaudits for its stage, movie, and television versions.Author: Robert BoltISBN-10: 0573012601ISBN-13: 9780573012600Publisher: Samuel FrenchLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/1998Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.6Point Value: 4Interest Level: Upper...

The Hollywood of the Forties brings many images to mind. Do you remember the most famous pinup of them all? Betty Grable smiling at you all through World War II. The original sweater girl, Lana Turner. Rita Hayworth in all her glory. The stunning...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of...

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Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is J. M. Barrie's most famous work. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited...

Do you enjoy having fun? Are you in need of an excuse to act like a fool on a Thursday evening? And have you a hankering for some ridiculous word games in your life? If the answer to any of these questions is YES...

In Torch Song - the two-act revival of Harvey Fierstein's award-winning Torch Song Trilogy - the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with...

Fawzia Afzal-Khan's book is an important and timely feminist intervention in the study of classical music and a cogent challenge to the prevailing antisecular orthodoxy in the academy. In this complex and sensitive study...of the careers of artistes like Malka Pukhraj, Roshanara Begum, Reshma,...

Elementary sports fans will chant their way through key vocabulary in this high-interest leveled reader about cheerleading. Shake your pom-poms in the air and get the crowd fired up for a high-interest book that early readers will love. Simple text and excellent photos touch...

Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane Trilogy, one of the great events...

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while still a boy of seven,...

In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to...

Stage fright, performance nerves, performance anxiety: are you terrified of stepping into the spotlight? Do you shake, get cold and sweaty hands, experience shallow and fast breathing, dry mouth, nausea or difficulty concentrating?Packed with simple practical interventions, "Befriending Performance Anxiety" is your guide to...

This memoir, the first of three, follows one woman's journey through the roles of child prodigy, trapped teen, college dropout, radiant bride, theatre-maker, and mother. It's about discovery-a roller-coaster process of becoming herself, and she's still evolving.Elizabeth Fuller has lived her life making theatre,...

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Singing, alone and in choirs, has wide-reaching health benefits for everyone, including release of oxytocin, increased production of immunoglobulin to fight infections, less need of pain medications, improved pulmonary function, fewer symptoms of depression, and a brighter outlook on life. These benefits are even...

As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage, The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war's brutality. Plays for Performance SeriesAuthor: Nicholas RudallISBN-10: 1566632242ISBN-13: 9781566632249Publisher: Ivan R....

Originally published in 1933, this collection contains both of the works on magic put together by the author. It features detailed explanations of his many tricks, accompanied by clear diagrams, and offers much in way of practical advice and information to today's magician, whether...

So you want to be a ventriloquist is a complete guide for beginning ventriloquism. Including puppet manipulation, how to talk without moving your lips and how to write a comedy script.Author: Colin DymondISBN-10: 1291984909ISBN-13: 9781291984903Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2014Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w...

In the summer of 1927, nineteen bands gathered for a recording session in Bristol, on the Tennessee-Virginia border, including some of the most influential names in American music--the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Stoneman and more. Organized by Ralph Peer for Victor records to...