This oracle deck invites you into a world of vintage circus enchantment, where each card symbolizes a key aspect of life’s journey. With whimsical imagery and evocative stories, the deck inspires self-discovery, insight, and growth, helping readers n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Other merchandise, Kirjastus: Hinkler Books, ISBN-13: 9781488973284)
Retro Boxes: Juggling Kit – Discover the Art of JugglingDiscover the art of juggling with the Retro Boxes: Juggling Kit! This hands-on set is perfect for beginners and includes everything you need to start masterin...Loe edasi...
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in response to its...Loe edasi...
In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ways of engaging with the field. Lavers, Burtt, and Bochud investigate the way that Social Circus transforms in r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Feminist Press at The City University of New York, ISBN-13: 9781558613447)
The fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking w...Loe edasi...
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Sapiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theatre, literature, arts, and popular culture. The first p...Loe edasi...
An authoritative compendium on sword swallowing, featuring historical biographies, expert insights, rare photos, and behind-the-scenes stories from contemporary sword swallowers. An authoritative compendium on sword swallowing, featur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469676265)
Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs—sometimes called Black Bohemians—seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469676272)
Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs--sometimes called Black Bohemians--seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in...Loe edasi...
What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic a...Loe edasi...
What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic a...Loe edasi...
The first-ever biography of Patty Conklin, the founder of the world’s largest carnival company, and the story of the show’s expansion under his son and grandson. Carnie King is a vivid account of three generations of showmen and their dominanc...Loe edasi...
What are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, and performance? Where do hybrid forms exist? Where are there observable commonalities? Despite the diversity of contemporary cir...Loe edasi...
Send in the Clowns presents interviews with 24 pioneering humanitarian and activist clowns and thought leaders working in hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages and war zones, and at the sites of street protests and locations of social unrest...Loe edasi...
Send in the Clowns presents interviews with 24 pioneering humanitarian and activist clowns and thought leaders working in hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages and war zones, and at the sites of street protests and locations of social unrest...Loe edasi...
Clear the ring: The motif of the circus in contemporary art. The circus presents a deliberate staging of attractive illusions, hard struggle, success and failure as part of human existence. The volume assembles works by international con...Loe edasi...
A sumptuous, page-turning historical novel of revenge and redemption set against the backdrop of civil injustice and the rise of Fascism....Loe edasi...
The first-ever biography of Art Concello, one of the worlds greatest trapeze artists and circus businessmen, this book goes beyond the showmanship displayed in the ring to reveal the inner workings of the circus that could both thrill a crowd and m...Loe edasi...
Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “Step right up!” and buy a ticke...Loe edasi...
This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader...Loe edasi...
Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus--that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting elephants and spangled trapeze artists that slipped into town at dawn and disappeared by midnight--has all but vanished from the American landscape. This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Mar-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Royal Academy of Arts, ISBN-13: 9781912520862)
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A compact and affordable bestiary of allegorical animalsKawanabe Kyosai (1831–89) delighted in the depiction of animals—crows with strong personalities, frogs in the schoolroom, rats on trapezes, cats in procession, elephan...Loe edasi...
Anyone who has ever tried to do something well, anyone who has ever made personal sacrifices for an art or an idea, will have no trouble understanding what it is about Paul Auster - The star of MAN ON WIRE offers a meditation on the ecstasy of con...Loe edasi...
• Striking black-and-white pictures taken from the sidelines of the circus ring• Challenging common stereotypes about the circusFreedom, adventure, romance; a spellbound audience, bright-eyed children, rolling drums, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Morgan James Publishing llc, ISBN-13: 9781631954252)
From the meticulously crafted methodology of elite performance, Almost Perfect is the instruction manual that helps readers implement the unshakeable discipline required to reach any true, life-changing goal. Erika Lemays story turns sacrifi...Loe edasi...
This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader pe...Loe edasi...
An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108485166)
An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus...Loe edasi...
This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and c...Loe edasi...
Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant – The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, juggle...Loe edasi...
Daredevils and scantily clad starlets, fearless animal trainers and startling “freaks”: This behind-the-scenes look at the American circus brings together original posters and lithographs as well as remarkable circus photography to explore the glamou...Loe edasi...
