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Buster and Annie, the son and daughter of famed performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang, were often stars as children in their parents' pieces--or public disturbances--and they return home as adults full of questions about the past only to find themselve pulled unwillinging into one final performance.
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Brookstone brides volume 1
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English
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After her father's death, Lizzy Brookstone, the star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, loses interest in performing. What she longs for is a life with the Brookstone ranch foreman, Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart. Meanwhile, Jason Adler, son of the show's new financial partner, comes to help with the show, and Lizzy soon finds him vying for her affection. Ella Fleming is fleeing a forced engagement...
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Voici un livre qui s'adresse à tous ceux qui voudraient connaître et améliorer leur voix - autant les chanteurs professionnels que les néophytes - et ce, dans les genres musicaux les plus disparates. Élaboré ici dans un style simple et accessible, ce vaste enseignement, issu des traditions et connaissances qui circulent dans les studios et conservatoires depuis l'époque du bel canto, est un outil inestimable pour tous les chanteurs qui cherchent...
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Naît-on artiste ou le devient-on? Voilà la question qui est posée dans ce livre. L'objectif premier du livre est de démontrer que Johanne Raby, l'auteure, a eu une enfance et une jeunesse qui n'était pas nécessairement en relation avec ses objectifs artistiques. Bien qu'issue d'une famille plutt musicale, les visées qu'on avait pour elle paraissaient bien éloignées de ce qu'elle-même souhaitait au plus profond d'elle.
Elle a dû se battre,...
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Deutsch
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"Heilige Mutter Gottes, erlöse Russland von Putin."
Im August 2012 wurden Maria Aljochina, Nadescha Tolokonnikowa und Jekaterina Samuzewitsch, drei Mitglieder des Punk-Kunstkollektivs Pussy Riot, wegen "Rowdytum aus religiös motiviertem Hass" zu zwei Jahren Straflager verurteilt - ein politischer Skandal, der ein riesiges Presse-Echo und weltweit Solidaritätsbekundungen hervorgerufen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Band wird bisher unveröffentlichtes...
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No other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimitable style, she has embodied some of the most troubling figures to cast a long shadow on the public imagination, and has envisioned a kind of catharsis within each drama: Liza Minnelli responds to the September 11 attacks; Terri Schiavo explains why Americans love a woman in a coma; Martha Stewart dumps George W. Bush during their...
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Most fans of the artist Edward Gorey know him as the author of lavishly drawn, sparely plotted little books in which hapless characters come to unpleasant ends. But if you happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might know him as a dramatist. From Boston's Poets' Theatre to New York's Broadway, and from Bourne to Provincetown on Cape Cod, Edward Gorey applied his distinctive wit to writing and directing plays for actors and puppets-occasionally...
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Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict...
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore...
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Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina Abramovi�c was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor -- all of which informs...
13) Fame
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Passions will be tested and young hearts will be broken. Ultimately, talent, dedication and hard work will triumph. Centers around a group of dancers, singers, musicians and actors at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, and their spirited drive to live out their dreams of stardom. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, each student must shine amidst the tumult of school work, deep friendships, budding romance and self-discovery.
14) Memory piece
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
