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Elements of Performance is based on Pauline Koner's course of the same name taught at the Juilliard School in New York. It discusses her theories of the primary and secondary elements of the art of performing. The primary elements are Emotion,...

First Published in 1996. Professor Zolotnitsky provides a picture of the life and work of Sergei Radlov - one of the most outstanding interpreters of Shakespeare on the Soviet stage in the 1930s. Sergei Radlov started as one of the left-wing directors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940067414Author Chelsea Butters WoodingFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S.Publisher Fitness Information...

How might the organic link between theatre-making and political action be revitalised? And how might a spontaneous vision of a theatre of and for ordinary people be reignited? Since his political exile from Argentina in 1977, theatre director and...

While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.Book...

A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies, Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition, the first complete revision of the text since 1977. Initiated by the movement genius Rudolf Laban, and refined through fifty years of work...

The Popular Music Studies Reader maps the changing nature of popular music over the last decade and considers how popular music studies has expanded and developed to deal with these changes.A wide range of international contributors featuring some of the...

This book considers David Hanson's robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots.Mechanical beings have occupied the human imagination since antiquity. Now, they inhabit the...

"A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage" (The New York Times Book Review).In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through...

When George III's behaviour begins to seem odd, even for Royalty, the collapse of government is imminent. The King is subjected to the horrors of eighteenth-century medicine, the Ministers scrabble to remain in office and the Prince of Wales prepares to...

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave's Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today's film student. Via a critical evaluation of the work of...

Jeff Nuttall: Anything But Dull is the first full-length biography of the poet, performance artist, provocateur, and polymath Jeff Nuttall, who famously wrote "I paint poems, sing sculptures, draw novels." Nuttall was a key figure in the...

Katie has gone from a little girl who used to climb trees, ride bikes and go on adventures to an adult who worries about everything. But now Katie is a mum, she must be brave in a whole new way. Determined that her young daughter will never lose the...

It's hard keeping it together when your whole life is falling apart. But the pressures of teaching, Tinder and outrageous Irish best mates are a lot to juggle, especially when you're stumbling through the maze of trying to be a grown-up. It explores...

From Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera,...

Author wrote bestselling bfi Publishing title David Lynch "a joy to the reader of film criticism" Choice; 2001: A Space Odyssey to be re-released in cinemas in The Spring and highly likely to be the focus of much media attention in the new year; Stanley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845839741Author Ryan FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 820Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1075gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781329753372Author Michael WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

From the beginning of her modeling career in 1944 as Norma Jeane Mortensen to her death as the voluptuous Hollywood icon in 1962, Marilyn Monroe posed for thousands of modeling and publicity photos, scores of which have long been forgotten or abandoned...

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Blok's plays have received less attention than his poetry in the West, and this book is the first and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986205064Author Michael CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Progress City Press, L.L.C.Publisher Progress City Press, L.L.C.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578058634Author Kelly GrinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Mondas PublishingPublisher Mondas PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blache, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blache, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment...

Michael Le Grice, a pioneer of "structural film" in the 1970s and whose first video and computer works were exhibited in the late 1960s, provides a collection of his most notable essays. The essays shed light on the work of other artists and film-makers...

This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch's work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work...

Protests at the Miss World contest in 1970 attracted headlines around the world. This book portrays the new and vibrant women's liberation movement of the 70s. It tells how women protested inside and outside the Albert Hall, who they were, what took...

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.You may think of it not as a book, but as a library, an elevator, an amateur performance in a nearby theatre.Open it to the table of contents. Turn to the page that sounds the most interesting to you.Read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899235742Author John James-CominoFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 1383g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244548520Author Andrew HickeyFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291837483Author Gordon KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362405Author Ellen McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

" . . . will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -Richard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359021086Author Stars Illustrated Ma Times Square PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Inclusive Character Analysis foregrounds representations of race, gender, class, ability, and sexual orientation by blending script analysis with a variety of critical theories in order to create a more inclusive performance practice for the classroom...

When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: "When we look at a dance, what do we see?" Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed...

Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than fifty of the major figures in jazz history to preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period. The...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718656059Author Valerie Preston-DunlopFormat PaperbackPage Count 740Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350297339Author Akshay ManwaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IndiaWeight(grams)...

Homer Vol. V. Hymns, etc (Hymni, Cyclus, Fragmenta, Margites, Batr, Vitae)Book InformationISBN 9780198145349Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 22mm

A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance studies expands our understanding of "performance" as...