African Performance Arts and Political Acts, Paperback - Jendele Hungbo

Presents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection en...

Explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious st...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, the 2003 to 2015 director of the National Theatre reflects on his time in the post, emphasising the role that compr...

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A comprehensive guide to the techniques of orchestral playing and the development of non-professional orchestras. It covers various areas of orches...

"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John ...

Reducere. Drawing on the encyclopedic wealth of material in the author's classic studies The Interpretation of Early Music and A Performer's Guide to Baroque...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Steve (Brunel University) DixonIllustration(s): 235 illus.; 235 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 828Co...

The book examines the AU's performance, role, and the innovative and homegrown solutions it has developed.

In this wide-ranging study, pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back, examining the strengths and limitations of Historically Info...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Jessica PisanoNumber of pages: 252Collection: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studi...

A screenplay for a crime story

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Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Uchenna OkejaNumber of pages: 234Collection: World PhilosophiesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 ...

DescriptionGone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design...

DescriptionHere is Nicholas Hytner's fascinating, candid memoir of his tenure at the helm of Britain's greatest theater. As artistic director of Lo...

In the heat of renaissance Italy two houses are at war. One son and one daughter from the opposing families break this bitter conflict by falling i...

Description Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the mode...

Renowned master teacher Eric Franklin has thoroughly updated his classic text, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, providing dancers and d...

DescriptionElizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCa...

Reducere. Lorna Marshall's revolutionary new book, The Body Speaks, is a fundamental rethinking of our relationship to the body and its role in performance. ...

Reducere. Drama Harold Pinter Characters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set In a small house at a coastal resort live a man, his mentally wayward wife and their ...

Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): Orlando PearsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: NovelsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 217 x 18Cover type:...

Reducere. The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substan...

Contributors include Peggy Phelan, Tim Etchells, RoseLee Goldberg, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Amelia Jones, Stelarc, Marina Abramovic and Alastair MacLe...

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.Publisher: T...

""The Content of Our Caricature" is an in-depth exploration of African American comic art and its relationship to political belonging"--

Reducere. This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison bet...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practi...

A selection of Brecht's influential writing for directors and theatre practitioners, as well as rehearsal and production records from notable Brech...

A practical guide to the art and technique of lighting for the stage, this book explains the complex mixture of craft, collaboration and creativity...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Julie (Senior Lecturer and Associate Lecturer, Westminster University, UK) LambdenIllustration(s): 2...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, this title proposes fresh approaches to curating and ways of developing c...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Museum Folkwang, EssenIllustration(s): 270 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021D...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be "saved, " and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as "rising, " African ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and b...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The study of race and ethnicity should be considered as an overlooked subject in the field of Iranian photography. One of the important themes in t...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controvers...

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an internatio...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 94 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 94 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Amelia CavalloIllustration(s): 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pa...

Seventy percent of a conversation is conveyed through body language while only 10 percent is the meaning of the words. Here, an expert RADA trainer...

DescriptionOnce seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe...

SchottText in German and English

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katherine ProfetaDramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement pe...