Art - Performance

The first major retrospective of Yoko Ono in a decade foregrounds her impact on activism and invites readers to engage dynamically with her work Yoko Ono (b. 1933) firmly established herself as a leading figure in the Fluxus movement by the mid-1960s. Since that...

Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an artistic practice, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. It also provides guidance on how to analyze and discuss walking artworks, with vocabulary support, over...

"If you really want to understand me, it is necessary to see my life from the beginning." This comment by Slovakian aartist J疣 Mancuska (1972-2011) is not intended to encourage the audience to track down the artist's concrete biographical details (that of a subject...

Includes the plays Trafford Tanzi, The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble and The Seduction of Anne Boleyn Trafford Tanzi began as a pub show in Liverpool. It has since been performed all over the world and translated into a dozen languages. It plays...

Author: Saara TainaISBN-10: 0768413222ISBN-13: 9780768413229Publisher: Destiny Image IncorporatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2016Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

Colorful mappings of choreographic ideasSoloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made. These drawings serve...

Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four other countries while also establishing and maintaining a nationally known puppetry center in West Liberty, Iowa. My memoir traces its history and explores the relationship between work and play, between loss and recovery, between...

An examination of the depiction and representation of performative acts in Old English texts. Acts of performance, such as music, storytelling, and poetry recital, have made significant contributions to the rediscovery and widening popularity of Old English poetry. However, while these performances capture the...

A collection of articles selected from the Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, translated here for an English-speaking audience. Beijing Dance Academy is a full-time institution of higher learning with commitment to developing excellent professional dancers, choreographers and dance researchers. Part of the Intellect China...

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...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor of Intellect's Applied Theatre Research journal, with significant and substantial new material. First and foremost a critical reader for today's applied theatre practitioners and scholars. 7...

Author: EuripidesISBN-10: 1554814499ISBN-13: 9781554814497Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as...

It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as...

A family bent on revenge travels to a foreign land to seek the aid of a dragon but discover that a knight has slain it and is still trapped beneath the carcass. In exchange for their help, Sir Ekinroy vows to confront the man...

A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked.A night out. Friends, alcohol, a shit club, a strop - the usual. But tonight is different. Tonight will change things forever.With Love Steals us from Loneliness, Gary Owen, one of Wales's foremost...

This book strikes at the heart of musical performance with a study of the relationship between music and rhetoric which was much remarked upon during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The ideas of the classical rhetoric books are traced through the Tudor classroom to...

FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS and the TENDERLOIN MUSEUM Presented TENDER (n.): a person who takes charge-- A site-specific dance celebrating 100 years of outcast activism in the Tenderloin. Tender ran June 7 - 16, 2018 at the Cadillac Hotel, located at 380 Eddy Street. All performances...

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 volumes I and II of Jean Hugard's fantastic...

This Ukulele Tabs Paper book is for you if seeking ukulele tablature sheets to keep your music compositions in one location. Inside there are 4 horizontal lines with 5 blank chord spaces and staffs.Enjoy ****** Did you know that the Ukulele Orchestra of Great...

A debut monograph that showcases Smith's bold experimentation, from her cutting-edge performance art to her earliest paintings, Xerox prints, drawings and sculptureA pioneer of the performance art movement of the late 1960s, Southern California-based Barbara T. Smith (born 1931) has long produced work that...

Everyone is creative. Creativity is a process which anyone can learn to use more effectively. This comprehensive creativity course will aid you in entertaining family audiences.It provides: A thorough discussion of the steps in the creative process. Guidance in going through the entire process...

The development of the human voice for professional purposes, through training, the voice is able to achieve its maximum intensity with minimum use of muscle energy. A wide compass, clarity, and expressiveness are characteristic of a trained voice. Breathing control is also developed.Author: Femi...

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans...

From themed entertainment to business and beyond, anyone involved in leading creative teams will benefit from Kile's extensive expertise. He has produced events around the world for over thirty years, from Stanford and Harvard alumni campaigns to stadium-sized spectacles, and here he shares techniques...

Ellen Mueller is Director of Programs at Arts Midwest. She is the author of Elements and Principles of 4D Art and Design and Remixing and Drawing: Sources, Influences, Styles.Author: Ellen MuellerISBN-10: 1438494807ISBN-13: 9781438494807Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2024Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize:...

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, a collective of young artists based in Zagreb took to using the city's public spaces as a...

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seenthrough the lens of conservation, which has long been overlooked in the largertheoretical debates about whether and how performance remains. Unraveling the complexities involved in the conservation of performance, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics...

One of the Dozens is Praxinoscope's fourth print volume in the 2022 "PerformX" series, documenting leading edge transdisciplinary group performance exhibitions in Los Angeles. In One of the Dozens, 20 artists -who worked in pairs or duets- now respond in print form to their...

Since the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his native Java, who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice. But what is this non-stylised Amerta Movement practice? And...

Drama-Based Pedagogy examines the mutually beneficial relationship between drama and education, championing the versatility of drama-based teaching and learning designed in conjunction with the classroom curriculum. Written by seasoned educators and based upon their own extensive experience in diverse learning contexts, this book bridges...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic interventions can contribute to our understanding of human rights as a critical and embodied doing. This study is situated in the contemporary discourse of asylum...

This book presents a wide range of new audience studies research in the performing arts to provide a diversity of perspectives from scholarship, policy, management and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Trends.Author: Steven HadleyISBN-10: 1032632437ISBN-13: 9781032632438Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and do Ulises Carri (1941-1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of...

It is through the sentient body that we experience, know and imagine--and so the body is perhaps the most important tool for making and experiencing art. Imaginative Bodies reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers,...

Teenage sisters Affy and Di look out for each other. Dying to escape their violent life, they move from dreams to betrayal - with devastating results.Inside Out, a Clean Break commission, is the provocative and funny story of how the sisters fight for a...

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied...

Isabel Lewis is an artist interested in creating multisensory experiences, collapsing formal boundaries, and centering collectivity. Widely recognized for having expanded the field of contemporary art, Lewisrefers to many of her works as "occasions" immersive social gatherings that encompass choreography, performance, music, and workshops....

Choreomata is a book about performance and performativity, but more specifically it is a book about the performance of artificiality and the performance of intelligence.Author: Roberto Alonso TrilloISBN-10: 1032319917ISBN-13: 9781032319919Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 538Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.14d

Ballet is more than just a performance dance; it is a classical art of movement and self-expression. With the disciple and rigorous training involved in ballet, most ballet dancers start training at a young age. Even though ballet requires hard work you can help...

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 is volume V of Jean Hugard's fantastic handbook "Card Manipulations",...

Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing...

Author: Carl Grose, Anna Maria MurphyISBN-10: 1350322016ISBN-13: 9781350322011Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 7.78h x 5.12w x 0.63d

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist Philosophy, Ecology, Disability...

BEING WORK is a collection of essays by dance and theater artists that offer access to varied experiences of performing in live exhibitions. The authors capture a spectrum of mundane and profound moments that arise within performance gig work in visual arts contexts such...

Views theatre performance as both a mode of empowerment and self-determination and a way of placing Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the shores of Turtle Island and on the world stage Understanding Indigenous cultures as critical sources of knowledge and...

On Adrian Piper's radical pedagogy of transgression and the importance of soul and funk music in the African American struggle for emancipation. From 1982 to 1984, Adrian Piper staged a number of audience-interactive performances in universities or museum settings, under the title Funk Lessons....

Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and BereniceJean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming passion and cruelty.This volume brings together three of his greatest plays. Britannicus, the earliest, is set...

A concise introduction to the theatrics and rituals of the art fairThis latest book on the work of Los Angeles-born, Cologne-based photographer Christopher Williams (born 1956) explores the transparent theatricality of the modern art fair, inspired by Art Cologne 1967. Williams' black-and-white photographs lead...

In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39's creation, operation, and artistic practice...