Dance & other performing arts

Deleuze and Beckett

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"Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays illuminating similarities between the philosophies and practices of Deleuze and Beckett. The contributors include some of the leading Beckett and Deleuze specialists in the world, and their essays address different ideas and concept…

Irish theatre in transition: from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-firs…

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Irish Theatre in Transition celebrates the creative and richly vibrant Irish theatre which, since its inception, has always been in transition. Fifteen Irish theatre scholars, building on Christopher Murray's foundational essay on the first hundred years, explore Irish theatre's…

Performance and identity in Irish stand-up comedy: the comic 'i'

by Colleary, Susanne

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Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy examines the comic tradition of stand-up in and from modern-day Ireland. Using critical analyses of comedians including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins, Susanne Colleary's engaging new book explores the role of stand…

Performance and identity in Irish stand-up comedy: the comic 'i'

by Colleary, Susanne

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One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated …

The Methuen Drama handbook of interculturalism and performance

fromMethuen drama handbooks

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"The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of enco…

The Palgrave handbook of musical theatre producers

by Association for Theatre in Higher Education (U.S.), Most fabulous producers, Washington, D.C.)

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This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre. Key areas of investigation include the lives and works of producers whose work is part of a US and worldwide musical theatre legac…

Audition: everything an actor needs to know to get the part

by Shurtleff, Michael

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Describes a wide variety of auditioning situations and provides advice for actors on handling all aspects of each situation.

Expression in the performing arts

by Alvarez, Inma, Hamilton, James R.

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The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosop…

Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from …

by Calamoneri, Tanya

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Min Tanaka, American butoh artists, Cultural Studies, experimental art, Kazuo Ohno, Shuji Terayama, Theatre.

Chapter 3 American Anchor Artists and Festivals

by Calamoneri, Tanya

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"American Anchor Artists and Festivals" highlights three key artists: Maureen Fleming, Joan Laage, and Diego Piñón. All have spent numerous years in Japan and worked with the Ohnos, and two have worked with Min Tanaka. Their teaching and performance is the foundation of American…

The future of music: towards a computational musical theory of everyth…

by Mazzola, G., (Guerino), Pang, Yan, Rochester, Christopher, Noer, Jason, Yao, Shuhui, Afrisando, Jay, Neace, William

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The idea of this monograph is to present an overview of decisive theoretical, computational, technological, aesthetical, artistic, economical, and sociological directions to create future music. It features a unique insight into dominant scientific and artistic new directions, w…

Semiotics and pragmatics of stage improvisation

by Pietropaolo, Domenico

fromBloomsbury advances in semiotics

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Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell'Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the stage traditions of Italy, France, Germany and England, and covers comedic drama, …

Dance in Ireland: Steps, Stages and Stories

by Phelan, Sharon A.

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In Dance in Ireland: Steps, Stages and Stories, Sharon Phelan provides an in-depth view of dance in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial eras. She presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and as a signifier of cultural change. Central themes are documented and a…

Performance and Ethnography: Dance, Drama, Music

by Njaradi, Dunja, Harrop, Peter

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Performance and Ethnography: Dance, Drama, Music revisits the territory of the performance orientation, touching on anthropology, dance, folklore, music and theatre to look for present trends in both the ethnography of performance and performance ethnography. One of the main con…

Theatre in health and care

by Brodzinski, Emma

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This unique book examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing critical q…

Theatre in health and care

by Brodzinski, Emma

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Theatre in Health and Care examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings, from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing…