Art - Performance

Tales of Enchantment: The Art of Magic by Walt AnthonyTechniques and Presentations to make your magic, more Magical! A lifetime of practical material is explored in this book: presentations, stagecraft, effects, performance technique, magic anecdotes; all from a full-time professional entertainer's thirty-plus year career....

The popularity of participatory work with audiences is greater than ever, but the invitation to participate is rarely given attention as a feature of performance, or an important element of practice in its own right. This book presents a theory of audience participation in...

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018. Alex and Sara are worried. Their daughter Lee starts school soon and they think her best friend Ernie is going to be a problem....

A Los Angeles drama critic called REGARDING MRS. CARTER a "Hamlet for women." That is certainly hyperbole, but this theatrical monologue provides a strong showcase for a mature female actor with an understanding of style, wit, and emotional honesty. It requires one costume and...

From a critically acclaimed, Pushcart Prize-nominated performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir about forging identity in the chasm between cultures and classes Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural...

Are you interested in the art of live theatre? Do you love enjoying a beautiful performance, but have avoided learning more about theatre production because it too often feels like a lecture? Are you completely new to the world of theatre and don't know...

2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama...

The first comprehensive monograph on an artist interrogating social and collective historiesThis is the first comprehensive survey on the career of Italian artist Marinella Senatore (born 1977), whose participatory and public artworks merge forms of protest, learning theatre, oral history, ceremony, dance and music.Author:...

Raising Simba takes readers on a journey from the dim corners of the South Side of Chicago to the bright lights of Broadway.The idea of starring as one of the world's most beloved characters on one of the world's biggest stages seems like a...

At the very least, this book is full to the brim with fun and entertainment: -The antics of the house dog, Winston. -The humorous side of ageing in Old Ain't for Sissies. -The fun and laughter shared with my best friend, at Scrabble, which...

"Perform these poems Do it your way " Peggy C. Hall invites teachers of English, drama, music, art, technology to use these two full-length poetry "shows" (or individual poems) as springboards to innovative, collaborative or solo, interpretations of the spoken word. An overarching theme...

This book is an invitation to awaken the 3Rs: Reveling in your Body, Revealing your Radiant Essence, and Receiving what you Desire. The 3Rs can be the foundation - and the fruit - of your burlesque solo creation and performance journey This book is...

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others' specific locales....

Franz Kamin (1941-2010) was an American writer, composer, poet, performance-installation artist, and pianist whose startling avant-garde works created multiple new genres. This collection incorporates his two main previous books--Ann Margret Loves You and Other Psychotopological Diversions (1980) and Scribble Death (1986)--plus his posthumous writing...

Actors! Have you been considering the enticing move to LA? Well, this is the book for you! Join award-winning actress Krystina Bailey Brawer as she takes you on her journey to navigating the "City of Dreams". She will share with you her wins and...

Plays with Films brings together texts of the final three productions of Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery: Zomboid (2006), Wake Up Mr. Sleepy Your Unconscious Mind is Dead (2007), and Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008). In these three exhilarating and...

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...

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...

Fatima Merchant is feisty and strong-willed. At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. Suddenly, to her friends and family she is no longer the Fatima they thought...

Who will you be? The great Antony? Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen? The power-hungry, Caesar!?Antony and Cleopatra like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand.Designed for 8-22+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic...

This textbook provides an expert overview of the challenge of arts and cultural leadership in the contemporary world. Grounded in theories of sustainability and with a renewed global focus for this second edition, the author's insights from contemporary arts organizations facilitate meaningful student comprehension....

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces. Digital communication technologies and the social norms and discourses that developed alongside these technologies...

Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century.This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these...

This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and...

20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience of embodied awareness. Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice. It is transdisciplinary and multifaceted--it has no subject listing in academia, but is of central...

Today, Bach is one of the most revered and studied figures of classical music, despite there being a time in which he was almost forgotten. Divided into two sections, this volume explores research on J.S. Bach and more broadly examines the topics of music...

In Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps presente! at work...

Art or Sound examines the rich overlap and areas of ambiguity between musical instruments and works of art. Looking at examples spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this gorgeously produced book, with its thick vinyl cover, offers a fascinating reinterpretation of the musical...

"Living Rooms" is the fifth play in the Picture Play series by Paul Davies. It was originally produced by TheatreWorks as a site-specific work in 1986. The play takes place entirely within an historic mansion known as "Linden" situated at 26 Acland Street, St....

The fans of Blizzard Entertainment are some of the most innovative and passionate fans in the world The Blizzard Cosplay Book is a celebration of their creativity and love of the characters that inhabit the many worlds of Blizzard. Featuring costuming tips, tricks, and...

'The past is a very dangerous place' Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives. Loretta arrives in Victorian England as a wide-eyed young Ayah for two children. Her dream is to earn enough money to pay...

"Is it possible for God to do wrong? To be wrong...? And if God is wrong, what then? Beauty, comedy, horror and tragedy collide in this gripping and powerful new play. Award-winning writer Fraser Grace re-spins the classical biblical tale of King David to...

Paris, 1870. Adultery ought to be a serious business... but it's hard to keep your dignity when the cleaning lady has a fireman in your kitchen and she suspects that something is up. Not to mention the fact that your lover is not only...

Four ground-breaking plays that explore the complex relationship between England and India over more than a century, weaving together personal and political narratives. The Waiting Room: Priya Banerjee is dead, but her life is far from over. She has just three days left to...

Mission Drift is a pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, created in the blazing heat of a Las Vegas June. Told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and original music that fuses Las Vegas glitz with Western ballads...

The Door Is A Jar-Bill Hicks is an excerpted chapter from Ben Robinson's 2017 Mindful Artfulness. "A very exciting time capsule-positive, darkly sweet, and well-researched arts literature..." wrote H. Freytag in VANISH. Hicks was a gifted musician, who slayed audiences with sensational stand-up comedy....

Learn how to incorporate principles from fine art into the art of ventriloquism as a means to enhance your on-stage creativity.Author: Diana RockwellISBN-10: 1539639665ISBN-13: 9781539639664Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2016Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.16d

Let your child's creativeness run wild as they bring to life and interact with talented, whimsical animals all across the world. In settings such as Paris, Moscow, amusement parks, and deep into the ocean, these playful animals will surprise you with their amazing display...

The amazing story of one man's lifelong passion for collecting what he called "ventriloquiana".... anything and everything pertaining to ventriloquists and ventriloquism. William Shakespeare Berger bought a ventriloquist's dummy on a business trip in 1910. By the time he passed away in 1972, he...

This book contains the fourth 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...

Bellydancing is an ancient practice that mixes performance and technical skill - learn more about some of the best bellydancers in the world with this book from author Roslyn S. Clark.Author: Roslyn S. ClarkISBN-10: 1518679609ISBN-13: 9781518679605Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2015Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli theatre with a critical gaze. It covers the conceptualization and typology, not along a chronological axis, but rather through seven theatrical forms. The author suggests a defi nition...

"There has been more than one time I came up to him after watching him work to tell him that I witnessed a piece of art". - Alan Ackerman, Las Vegas Card Expert CLOSE-UP COIN AND CARD EFFECTS WITH COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS AND 54 COLOR...

Techniques and Philosophies for performing improv comedy. From simple scene work to improvised musicals, "Short Form Improv" will guide through the best ways to tackle the different types of short form scenes, games, and exercises in the world of improvised comedy.Author: Jack RedaISBN-10: 1475013086ISBN-13:...

The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world's most famous performance artist. Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera, this book is a testament to the extraordinary life and work of one of our most courageous and groundbreaking...

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised...

If you wandered the streets of Oakland or Berkeley, California from the mid-1970s through 2013, you likely saw one of Frank Moore's performance flyers on a telephone pole. The Temescal period is so named because of the ongoing performance series Moore did at the...

Celebrating the recent award of a central figure in Polish contemporary artPolish artist Pawel Althamer (born 1967) is known for his sculptures and installations, which often include a performative or interactive element. This exhibition catalog includes old projects alongside new works and is being...

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text...

Collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education's institutional goals. Considering power, timelines, colonial structures, inclusion and exclusion, research, community engagement, and student learning outcomes, the authors examine devising in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. 34 b&w illus.Author:...