Performing Arts - General

Read about the natural qualities that describe the pure lifeblood of something, that spark called life that determines an object's character. It's life, but not how we usually would see it. A true eye-opener to the natural things in the world. It gives excellent...

Illuminating the post-industrial underground. Noise Receptor Journal: sound with impact -- analysing the abstract is one of the most well-respected underground zines dealing with post-industrial music, with a particular focus on dark ambient, death industrial, heavy electronics, and power electronics. Archive Volume 2 compiles...

ArtReach - 25 Years of Cultural Development is the story, told by the Founding Director, of the evolution of a significant UK cultural consultancy and festival producer. It is a must-read for those struggling to build, or aspiring to develop, arts businesses.Initiated by David...

ArtReach - 25 Years of Cultural Development is the story, told by the Founding Director, of the evolution of a significant UK cultural consultancy and festival producer. It is a must-read for those struggling to build, or aspiring to develop, arts businesses.Initiated by David...

This award-winning play explores the world of a young Stephen Hawking, before his life is forever changed by illness and an unexpected cutting insight into a new direction for cosmology. Three young people beginning their academic careers meet at a New Year's Eve party...

This book, Dancing Women, is a companion to the Dancing Men book by the same photographer. It contains images of major dancers of both ballet and modern dance companies, such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet,...

Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail. Opening with Dietrich's childhood in Berlin, we meet an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress whose own mother equated the stage with a world of vagabonds and thieves. Dietrich would...

In a cluttered world where you need to define your own personal brand and explain why and how you stand out; where you need to share the unique factor of your product, service and value proposition (so people choose you, not just somebody who...

WHAT I LEARNED FROM ZIG ZIGLAR THAT YOU SHOULD KNOWThis is your chance to be personally coached and mentored by a Hall of Fame Speaker / named one of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers in the World!" Steve Jobs said, "The most powerful person...

Does Tommy know you're Jewish?Tommy knows I'm Irish. At 12:37pm on 22 July 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. 91 people were killed, 46 wounded. The bombing was carried out by right-wing Zionists, targeting the headquarters of the British in Palestine....

Theatre and war have long been bedfellows. This brief study looks beyond theatre that is about war, and instead focuses on the relationship between theatre and war: how they feed into and inform one another, from rehearsal to post-production analysis. The study builds on...

Storyboarding Noir offers a new perspective on the rich and varied history of film noir by demonstrating how storyboarding, a film-making technique, has been adapted by legendary pianist and MacArthur Genius Award winner Ran Blake. The book offers a method, when combined with intensive,...

If you want to maintain a good, healthy speaking and singing voice, then it is essential that you keep your voice box in good working order.Here is a simple guide to help you understand what's good (and what's bad!) when looking after your 'vocal...

The 354 Johnnyarm from Vagland will shortly be arriving in Wombtown, please brace for impact. Three lasses. One lad. And a bucket load of teen angst. When Olivia, Kim and Alisha all take a fancy to the same local lad, friendships and families are...

PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS "David Davies's Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom's For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition focused so clearly, exclusively, informatively, and fairly on all the performing arts. I will use...

This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face...

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy -- causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.MusicQuake tells the stories of 50...

This manual is for you, your aerial and pole journey is unique, your learning cues and styles are unique to you. Be in charge of your journey, track your learning, your cues, and what helps you? Write it down, document it, photograph or sketch...

In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Mosa Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by...

"This is the golden age of bullfighting. In the last 60 years, the number of bullfights (corridas) held in Spain has increased almost ninefold, peaking in 2007. Great bullfighting names have the status of football stars, with heroes including Cayetano, Jose Toma s, Enrique...

From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and...

Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's artistic career. This album marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his...

An investigation of performative encounters of culture, politics, and education in and for institutional settings. This book builds on scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the ways that institutions...

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...

A study of contemporary French representations of women at work. 'Taking Up Space' explores representations of women in contemporary French film, literature, television, magazines, and visual art. In particular, contributors reflect on how these images present women at work in various spaces--professional, reproductive, domestic,...

In this collection, I took it upon myself to write from perspectives outside of my own. Creating characters of people in the world I see, telling their stories through my voice. These perspectives are not of my beliefs, however, I feel that to get...

Game of Death Redux 2.0We talk to Film Maker Alan Canvan about his re-edited version of Bruce Lee's "Game of Death" with an in-depth interview and its forthcoming release. Plus! exclusive script notesPlus Interviewed Chris Kent "Voicing the Game"JJ Bona article talking "Playing the...

Spontaneous Behavior lays out for actors at all levels, beginning to professional, how to shape a spontaneous performance unmistakably their own. Paul Austin draws on years of experience in his professional career as actor and director on stage, film and TV, and teaching at...

This publication contains transcriptions of how the world reacted to Aretha Franklin death and is a tribute to one of the true greats. Included, the complete studio album discography and song list plus a selected collection of magazines front cover.Author: Alessandro Bonini, Emanuele TamagniniISBN-10:...

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes. It welcomes readers to reimagine theater history in broader terms, and...

Think of it, to try and make movie. What a crazy idea! This popular handbook is designed to give new Production Assistants (P.A.s) an edge in the insane world of movie making. Topics include how to get your first job, the basics of lock-downs,...

Focusing on Disney's production of Shanghai Disneyland, this book examines how the Chinese state and the local market influence Disney's ownership and production of the identities and the representations of Shanghai Disneyland. Qualitative methods are here applied to combine both primary and secondary data,...

"... the more one listens to this music the more clear it seems that the intimate alchemy binding these words and music together is potentiated by nothing less than love - however one chooses to understand that word. Irrespective of further biographical considerations, and...

T. Nelson Downs-the "king of coins" was not only America's most popular and famous coin manipulator, but a talented magician specializing in sleight-of-hand involving objects as varied as cards, eggs, balls, and a host of other objects. This book is not written for the...

This fan of Dimash Qudaibergen, the phenomenal singer from Kazakhstan, has embarked on another adventure to shine some light and attention on this singer who is clearly making his mark on the world. My first book, my fanbook, titled "I Am Music - My...

This fan of Dimash Qudaibergen, the phenomenal singer from Kazakhstan, has embarked on another adventure to shine some light and attention on this singer who is clearly making his mark on the world. My first book, my fanbook, titled "I Am Music - My...

"I enjoyed Flirting With Fame because Dan is so open and honest about his encounters with celebrities - some very funny, some odd and some even hard to believe - but all told from an'everyman's' point of view. He quite often found himself in...

"I enjoyed Flirting With Fame because Dan is so open and honest about his encounters with celebrities - some very funny, some odd and some even hard to believe - but all told from an'everyman's' point of view. He quite often found himself in...

While it is widely recognized that music contributes to the health and well-being of societies, the reverse is not necessarily true. Being a professional musician is a rewarding yet challenging occupation, and the results of newer survey studies show musicians experience psychological challenges, like...

Are you and your organization ready for the future of live entertainment?The pandemic hit live entertainment harder than any other industry-but also revealed tantalizing new possibilities. Online, streaming, and hybrid events opened the door to bigger audiences, better finances, and more innovative content for...

About the EditorsAbout the ContributorsChapter 1 Introduction: Shifting Research Accounts on Sexual and Gender Minority Athletes, Eric Anderson and Joaquín PiedraPart I: Historical and Sociological PerspectivesChapter 2 LGBT sport clubs: Origin and historical changes in Spain and Latin America, by Joan Miró & Joaquín...

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion;...

"Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of political imagination. Artistic communities are often uniquely placed to help promote new thinking by enabling people to see things differently. In place of conflict's binary divisions, artists are often charged with exploring the ambiguities and...

Oscar Wilde lived during the Victorian era, a time in which women had very few rights compared to men. In the play 'A Woman of No Importance, ' the characters wrestle with some of the double standards of the 1800s. In the play A...

Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom Bharucha's timely essay reflects on four interconnected realities that haunted this ongoing crisis--death, grief,...

This book investigates performance practice and practice-as-research methodology on the issues of authorship and collaborative labor in a world characterized by fragmentation, displacement, and virtual relationships. It addresses the following questions: What is a collaborative body? How can one sole performer enact and convey...

How do you turn songwriting talent into a professional career? This essential guide tackles that question, alongside many others, taking songwriters through all the developmental phases and commercial experiences along the way in order to inspire and encourage the reader to find their own...

These plays show a fascinating side of the American melodramatic imagination as it was nurtured in the social world of the nineteenth century, and later grew to be a dominant genre in the theatre, film, and television of today. Includes: The Poor of New...

Hunting Stuart, about an Ottawa civil servant's royal connection, and The Voice of the People, a one-act play about a letter to the editor, are among Robertson Davies' best plays.Author: Robertson DaviesISBN-10: 0889242593ISBN-13: 9780889242593Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1994Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w...

Black Eden chronicles the history of Idlewild, a Michigan black community founded during the aftermath of the Civil War. As one of the nation's most popular black resorts, Idlewild functioned as a gathering place for African Americans, and more importantly as a touchstone of...