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Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's magical world, filled with supernatural encounters with faeries, ghosts and witches. Frolic with royalty, wander through forests, and experience love layered with enchantment. The Bard' s use of these fantastical phenomena has had a tremendous and enduring influence on authors and audiences for more than four centuries. But what are their origins? Explore the folk beliefs and literary sources that influenced Shakespeare...
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"¿Cuáles son las condiciones para que existiera la escena artística del SoHo en los setenta? Es la pregunta en la que se ahonda en este libro. Se sumerge en una comunidad de artistas, y en cómo el espacio creativo interdisciplinary reforzaba experimentos que iban más allá de galerías y teatros, para tomarse calles, edificios abandonados, parques, las copas de los árboles y subterráneos.
Este libro rescata voces e historias recogidas a través...
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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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This book takes its starting point in a rare experiment, that of an academic researcher attempting to learn to do circus. What happens to the knowledge of the performance theoretician when physically engaging with the circus arts? One of the (im)material outcomes of this experiment is what the author calls "homemade academic circus" - a series of lecture-performances on performance-related academic questions, presented and discussed through circus...
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Louis V. Moten presents his first collection of poetry. Moten is a founding member of “The Black Poets Collective of Kansas City, MO” where he and several others birthed the modern spoken word movement in KC. Here, readers get to witness Moten as the master of wordplay, jest, introspection and a wakeup call to the masses. This is collection features his famous, "The House that Blacks Built", "Khemitstry" and "Squirrel Watching". This is a must...
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Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign occupation, Taiwan has a unique history. Taiwan, Art and Civilization sheds light on Taiwan's beautiful scenery as well as its colorful history in the form of a true initiatory trip. Through magnificent illustrations,...
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Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists, students and teachers of performance at any stage of their practice. It offers a wide range of creative prompts and pathways enriched with critical thinking tools and questions, a hybrid approach Hill and Paris call 'Curious Methods'.
This is a welcome addition to the field, created and curated by two experienced artists who have operated at the international interface of academia...
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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,...
29) French Touch: Comment les Français ont façonné le monde de la mode, de la gastronomie et de l'art
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Les Français sont connus pour leur mode de vie unique, leur histoire fascinante et leur culture riche et variée. Dans ce livre, nous explorerons la France d'une manière amusante et humoristique en examinant les nombreux clichés et stéréotypes associés aux Français.Nous découvrirons comment les Français ont inventé de nombreuses choses qui ont façonné le monde, de la mode à la gastronomie, en passant par l'art et la littérature. Nous...
30) The family Fang
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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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En 1998, à l'initiative du Lieu, centre en art actuel, se tenait à Québec une rencontre internationale relatant l'art action des vingt dernières années, en effectuant un retour critique sur les années soixante et soixante-dix.
De ce rassemblement découla l'ouvrage intitulé Art action 1958-1998, compte rendu des discussions menées par les protagonistes historiques et actuels d'art performance et explorant quatre décennies de pratiques artistiques...
32) The Savvy Emcee
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In this practical, easy to use book, Rae A. Stonehouse a.k.a. Mr. Emcee puts the "Master" in Master of Ceremonies. He shares tips & techniques he has learned over the years in becoming a dynamic Master of Ceremonies.
By reading this book you will learn:
* How to take charge of any event.
* How to organize yourself so everyone will know you are in charge!
* How to think logistically, from several different perspectives.
* How to create agendas...
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Though only consists of 2 movements, Fall & Redemption can be considered as a mini song cycle with the 1st movement Fall talks about the fall of Adam & Eve from God's grace and Cain, the first murderer who killed his brother. The 2nd movement, Redemption talks about birth of Jesus Christ and his miracles sucj as tiring water to wine, let the blind regain the vision etc and of course, His crucifixion and His Rise to Heaven on the 3rd day.
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In this practical, easy to use book, Rae A. Stonehouse a.k.a. Mr. Emcee puts the "Master" in Master of Ceremonies. He shares tips & techniques he has learned over the years in becoming a dynamic Master of Ceremonies.
By reading this book you will learn:
* How to take charge of any event.
* How to organize yourself, so everyone will, know you are in charge!
* How to think logistically, from several different perspectives.
* How to create agendas that...
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Phil Smith of Wrights and Sites' fame is not the first to walk in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald, whose The Rings of Saturn is an account a walk round Suffolk 20 years ago. What is remarkable is that Phil's own walk was quite as extraordinary as Sebald's and that he matches Sebald's erudition, originality and humour swathe for swathe. On one level On Walking... describes an actual, lumbering walk from one incongruous BandB to the next, taking in Dunwich,...
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The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition. One activity that gains recognition and credibility as both fun and transformative is theatrical improvisation or improv. In this book, Ruth Yamamoto reviews her research on the influences of improvisation on community college students.
Educators, theatre artists, improvisers, or anyone interested building...
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A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. walking's new movement is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and dérive, site-specific performance, and the use/abuse of public space in the shadow of Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Savile and many others.
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Este libro inicia sus contenidos con una gran pregunta que atraviesa toda nuestra actualidad. Cómo nombrar aquello que se define desde la lengua franca del arte contemporáneo desde nuestro lugar hispanohablante ¿Qué significa decir Performance art en Chile hoy? En el caso de Chile, las grandes manifestaciones del 2011 por la educación vertieron múltiples agencias de cuerpos entrelazados en la calle, un roce de cuerpos que sigue aun latiendo...
40) Body Magic
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Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can't, hard as he may try?
In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with minimal practice, he can use the marvels of the human body to entertain and mystify friends and family, small and large audiences.
This book is first of all a delight to read because of the instant...