Teaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the authors theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or...Loe edasi...
Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and how performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discourse. Examining early Chinese ritual discourse du...Loe edasi...
Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one of the most influential yet misunderstood theatrical experiments of the twentieth century. Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one...Loe edasi...
This book explores historical, socio-political and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage....Loe edasi...
This is a concise survey of new play projects that bring together the worlds of science and performance, and the benefits that dramaturgical praxis can bring to both disciplines....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on works with children who occupy various roles in performance practice that have been shown in UK contexts and festivals over the last two decades. It draws on case studies from theatre, performance, live art and dance that have b...Loe edasi...
This book uses a mixed methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction....Loe edasi...
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, their relationships to each...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative one-hundred-year perio...Loe edasi...
The poems in Chelsey Minnis’s Opera Fever read like a dangerous bodice-ripper, glamorous and haunted. From the covid claustrophobia in which they were written, these poems sharply maneuver from steamy observations to gravitas (and then some gr...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholars...Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on the choreographic practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art....Loe edasi...
Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century....Loe edasi...
Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts. The authors look through both practical and theoretical lenses as they connect voice studies to equ...Loe edasi...
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world....Loe edasi...
Religion, Performances, and Democracy examine how religion has profoundly influenced the socio-political and cultural landscape of South Asia, shaping identities, public and private spaces, and social relationships over centuries....Loe edasi...
This book is the first book-length study of the visual and design elements of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). It will be of interest to researchers and scholars of theatre and performance, scenography, the Eurovision Song Contest, popular perfo...Loe edasi...