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Deburau - Pierrot, Mime, and Culture (Hardcover): Edward Nye Deburau - Pierrot, Mime, and Culture (Hardcover)
Edward Nye
R4,506 Discovery Miles 45 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1. The last specialised study of Deburau (the most famous and influential mime actor of all time) in French or English was the biography by Tristan Remy in 1954, Jean-Gaspard Deburau. 2. This book is very wide-ranging: starting with Deburau's Pierrot figure, it discusses nineteenth-century theatre, novels, poetry, society, and twentieth-century echoes in cinema and modern mime. 3. Readers who think they know who and what 'Pierrot' is (and was) will be surprised by what they find in this book; for example, his relation to colonialism and race. 4. There are 26 figures in the book, all of them discussed in depth. 5. Deburau is well-known among scholars, and the wider public know his image even if they can't necessarily put a name to it, but he has never been studied through such a wide range of manuscript as well as published sources, many of them identified for the first time.

Acting the Essence - The Performer's Work on the Self (Hardcover): Giuliano Campo Acting the Essence - The Performer's Work on the Self (Hardcover)
Giuliano Campo
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

* This book expands on content, history and perspectives of the Stanislavski actor lineage. * This book analyzes history, lineage and contemporary experiential aspects of performance, focusing on its peculiar research that deals with truth, trance and attention. * This book fill existing gaps in contemporary studies, particularly in English, related to the theory, practice, history and aims of a conscient use of altered states of consciousness as a work on the self in acting and performance.

Acting the Essence - The Performer's Work on the Self (Paperback): Giuliano Campo Acting the Essence - The Performer's Work on the Self (Paperback)
Giuliano Campo
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* This book expands on content, history and perspectives of the Stanislavski actor lineage. * This book analyzes history, lineage and contemporary experiential aspects of performance, focusing on its peculiar research that deals with truth, trance and attention. * This book fill existing gaps in contemporary studies, particularly in English, related to the theory, practice, history and aims of a conscient use of altered states of consciousness as a work on the self in acting and performance.

Foundations for Performance Training - Skills for the Actor-Dancer (Hardcover): Cara Harker Foundations for Performance Training - Skills for the Actor-Dancer (Hardcover)
Cara Harker
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Outlines key physical and mental preparation tips and skills for students training to become performers. This book is meant to serve as a companion to live instruction in acting, musical theatre, theatre movement, physical theatre, and dance classes, encouraging a deeper analysis of studio work to ignite thoughtful in-class discussions, innovative research, and creativity in performance. Focuses on the development of the actor-dancer, instead of prioritizing one over the other.

The Contemporary American Monologue - Performance and Politics (Hardcover): Eddie Paterson The Contemporary American Monologue - Performance and Politics (Hardcover)
Eddie Paterson; Series edited by Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
R3,929 Discovery Miles 39 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice (Hardcover): Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice (Hardcover)
Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
R4,291 Discovery Miles 42 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Routledge Companion to Studio Performance Practice is a unique, indispensable guide to the training methods of the world's key theatre practitioners. Compiling the practical work outlined in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks, each set of exercises has been edited and contextualised by an expert in that particular approach. Each chapter provides a taster of one practitioner's work, answering the same key questions: 'How did this artist work? How can I begin to put my understanding of this to practical use?' Newly written chapter introductions put the exercises in context, explaining how they fit into the wider methods and philosophy of the practitioner in question. All 21 volumes in the original series are represented in this volume.

Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (Paperback): Christina Kapadocha Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond (Paperback)
Christina Kapadocha
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond brings together a community of international practitioner-researchers who explore voice through soma or soma through voice. Somatic methodologies offer research processes within a new area of vocal, somatic and performance praxis. Voice work and theoretical ideas emerge from dance, acting and performance training while they also move beyond commonly recognized somatics and performance processes. From philosophies and pedagogies to ethnic-racial and queer studies, this collection advances embodied aspects of voices, the multidisciplinary potentialities of somatic studies, vocal diversity and inclusion, somatic modes of sounding, listening and writing voice. Methodologies that can be found in this collection draw on: eastern traditions body psychotherapy-somatic psychology Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering, Continuum Movement, Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy Fitzmaurice Voicework, Linklater Technique, Roy Hart Method post-Stanislavski and post-Grotowski actor-training traditions somaesthetics The volume also includes contributions by the founders of: Shin Somatics, Body and Earth, Voice Movement Integration SOMart, Somatic Acting Process This book is a polyphonic and multimodal compilation of experiential invitations to each reader's own somatic voice. It culminates with the "voices" of contributing participants to a praxical symposium at East 15 Acting School in London (July 19-20, 2019). It fills a significant gap for scholars in the fields of voice studies, theatre studies, somatic studies, artistic research and pedagogy. It is also a vital read for graduate students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.

Foundations for Performance Training - Skills for the Actor-Dancer (Paperback): Cara Harker Foundations for Performance Training - Skills for the Actor-Dancer (Paperback)
Cara Harker
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Outlines key physical and mental preparation tips and skills for students training to become performers. This book is meant to serve as a companion to live instruction in acting, musical theatre, theatre movement, physical theatre, and dance classes, encouraging a deeper analysis of studio work to ignite thoughtful in-class discussions, innovative research, and creativity in performance. Focuses on the development of the actor-dancer, instead of prioritizing one over the other.

Performing in Contemporary Musicals (Paperback): David Sisco, Laura Josepher Performing in Contemporary Musicals (Paperback)
David Sisco, Laura Josepher
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Performing in Contemporary Musicals brings into sharp focus the skills performers must possess when tackling shows that are newly written, in development, or somewhere in between. The authors bust myths about contemporary musical theatre and analyze the development timelines of musicals from around the world. They also explore how performers can become invaluable to a creative team by developing the skills needed to move a new musical forward including: contemporary acting and singing techniques, dramaturgy, quickly picking up new material, and collaboration. Each chapter features insightful industry interviews, recommended activities, an extensive reading list, and an online companion for further study. This textbook is the only comprehensive resource that provides an overview of the development process of a new musical while guiding musical theatre performers to be fruitful collaborators in a new works scenario.

Performing in Contemporary Musicals (Hardcover): David Sisco, Laura Josepher Performing in Contemporary Musicals (Hardcover)
David Sisco, Laura Josepher
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Performing in Contemporary Musicals brings into sharp focus the skills performers must possess when tackling shows that are newly written, in development, or somewhere in between. The authors bust myths about contemporary musical theatre and analyze the development timelines of musicals from around the world. They also explore how performers can become invaluable to a creative team by developing the skills needed to move a new musical forward including: contemporary acting and singing techniques, dramaturgy, quickly picking up new material, and collaboration. Each chapter features insightful industry interviews, recommended activities, an extensive reading list, and an online companion for further study. This textbook is the only comprehensive resource that provides an overview of the development process of a new musical while guiding musical theatre performers to be fruitful collaborators in a new works scenario.

Roy Hart (Paperback): Kevin Crawford, Bernadette Sweeney Roy Hart (Paperback)
Kevin Crawford, Bernadette Sweeney; Series edited by Franc Chamberlain
R1,235 Discovery Miles 12 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Part of the popular and successful Routledge Performance Practitioners series Includes a wealth of both original exercises and invaluable primary material Written with input from Hart's close collaborators and company members

Borderlands Children's Theatre - Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre... Borderlands Children's Theatre - Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre (Hardcover)
Cecilia Josephine Aragon
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Borderlands Children's Theatre highlights the social and performative construction of Chicana/o Mexican-American Childhood. Borderlands Children's Theatre teach and educate Anglo citizens on Chicana/o Mexican-American culture. Borderlands Children's Theatre explores traditional and contemporary literature and dramatic literature for Chicana/o Mexican-American children and youth. Borderlands Children's Theatre is a more in-depth analysis of Chicana/o Mexican-American childhood in the field of Childhood Studies. Borderlands Children's Theatre is a unique scholarly book that is the first to examine U.S. Chicana/o/Mexican-American childhood in Performance Studies.

Audience Participation in Theatre - Aesthetics of the Invitation (Hardcover): G. White Audience Participation in Theatre - Aesthetics of the Invitation (Hardcover)
G. White
R3,271 Discovery Miles 32 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The popularity of participatory work with audiences is greater than ever, but the invitation to participate is rarely given attention as a feature of performance, or an important element of practice in its own right. This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made. The materials from which theatre performance is made expand to include the audience participant's body and social being, with the participant's prior experience and expectations, and their embodied, affective response to the performance becoming of vital importance. Attending to this expanded set of performance media allows us to begin to articulate the aesthetics of participation, and thereafter to consider the ethics and politics of participation more precisely.

Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan - Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations (Hardcover): Guo Chao Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan - Social Power, Cultural Change and Gender Relations (Hardcover)
Guo Chao
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

An accessible account of the cultural history of Chinese gender relations and sexuality, from the Ming dynasty to the Chinese Communist Party A unique insight of the life experiences of female impersonators in traditional Chinese theatre An engaging analysis of the transformation of Chinese society through the lens of theatre and performing arts An urgent assessment of the ambiguous role of male players of female roles in contemporary China

Mysticism in the Theater - What's Needed Right Now (Hardcover): Tom Block Mysticism in the Theater - What's Needed Right Now (Hardcover)
Tom Block
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book offers a clear and novel method from inserting mystical ideals into theatrical productions. This book introduces a new way of understanding the history of theatre. This book gives an east-to-understand overview of mystical thinking. This book lays out a clear understanding of how theatre might positively influence the audience and society.

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen - An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence (Paperback):... The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen - An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence (Paperback)
Erick Vaughn Wolfe
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor's and Director's Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The book starts with an extensive safety review, then moves on to the basic techniques of dagger fighting, starting with grip and body postures. Readers will then learn about the basic actions of cuts, parries, blocks, and disarms. During this process, they will explore the connection between body and weapon and start learning the elements of storytelling through choreography. Special attention is given to suicides, threats, and murder and how directors, choreographers, performers, teachers, and students can approach these techniques in a way that is physically and mentally safe. The book also covers the use of throwing knives, knife flips, and other tricks to help add a little flair to your fight. The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen teaches the safe theatrical use of the knife for directors, performers, educators, and students of stage combat.

Acting after Grotowski - Theatre's Carnal Prayer (Paperback): Kris Salata Acting after Grotowski - Theatre's Carnal Prayer (Paperback)
Kris Salata
R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actor's art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-revelatory action, introduces Grotowski's concept of "carnal prayer," and develops an interdisciplinary theory of acting and spectating. Acting after Grotowski: Theatre's Carnal Prayer attempts to overcome the religious/secular binary by treating "prayer" as a pre-religious, originary deed, and ultimately situates theatre along with ritual in their shared territory of play. Grounded in theatre practice, Salata's narrative moves through postmodern philosophy, critical theory, theatre, performance, ritual, and religious studies, concluding that the fundamental structure of prayer, which underpins the actor's deed, can be found in any self-revelatory creative act.

Antonin Artaud (Paperback): Blake Morris Antonin Artaud (Paperback)
Blake Morris; Series edited by Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. This is the first book to combine an overview of Artaud's life with a focus on his work as an actor and director; an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double; a consideration of his work as a director at the Theatre Alfred Jarry and his production of Strindberg's A Dream Play; and a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud's key ideas. As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.

Re-Purposing Suzuki - A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training (Hardcover): Maria Porter Re-Purposing Suzuki - A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training (Hardcover)
Maria Porter
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

- Introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts. - Takes a primarily ensemble-based physical practice and re-purposing it to give the solo practitioner, or an actor preparing a role in an ensemble without a shared 'vocabulary' a means to use a physically based process on their own. - The work is suitable for individual practice, either for creating original work, or for preparing a role while working with a cast that does not have a shared vocabulary or physical/vocal practice.

Using Open Scenes to Act Successfully on Stage and Screen (Hardcover): Dan Carter, Brant L. Pope Using Open Scenes to Act Successfully on Stage and Screen (Hardcover)
Dan Carter, Brant L. Pope
R1,651 Discovery Miles 16 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using Open Scenes as a "way in" to scripted material, this book establishes a foundational actor training methodology that can be applied to the performance of film or television acting, commercials, and theatrical realism. Unlike other methodologies, this unique approach is devoid of casting considerations or imposed identity, providing actors opportunities that do not rely on nor are restricted by age, gender, race, ethnicity, regional accent, body type, identity, or other defining or delimiting aspects that come into play during the casting process. This allows the actor to focus on personal authenticity as they develop their skills. This book will appeal to undergraduate students, acting teachers, and the contemporary actor seeking a career in film, television, or other electronic media. Visit the companion website www.usingopenscenestoactsuccessful.godaddysites.com for additional Open Scenes and more.

Re-Purposing Suzuki - A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training (Paperback): Maria Porter Re-Purposing Suzuki - A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training (Paperback)
Maria Porter
R1,115 Discovery Miles 11 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- Introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts. - Takes a primarily ensemble-based physical practice and re-purposing it to give the solo practitioner, or an actor preparing a role in an ensemble without a shared 'vocabulary' a means to use a physically based process on their own. - The work is suitable for individual practice, either for creating original work, or for preparing a role while working with a cast that does not have a shared vocabulary or physical/vocal practice.

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training - Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity (Hardcover):... Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training - Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity (Hardcover)
Petronilla Whitfield
R4,510 Discovery Miles 45 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book includes a critical analysis of pedagogy in performance training environments. Includes descriptions of teaching interventions, research and exploratory practice to support the needs and abilities of the individual with dis/ability or difference. Outlines support for individuals in a variety of areas, such as: dyslexia, dyspraxia, visual or hearing impairment, learning and physical dis/abilities, wheelchair users, aphantasia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autistic spectrum.

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training - Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity (Paperback):... Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training - Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity (Paperback)
Petronilla Whitfield
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book includes a critical analysis of pedagogy in performance training environments. Includes descriptions of teaching interventions, research and exploratory practice to support the needs and abilities of the individual with dis/ability or difference. Outlines support for individuals in a variety of areas, such as: dyslexia, dyspraxia, visual or hearing impairment, learning and physical dis/abilities, wheelchair users, aphantasia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autistic spectrum.

The Warner Loughlin Technique - An Acting Revolution (Hardcover): Warner Loughlin The Warner Loughlin Technique - An Acting Revolution (Hardcover)
Warner Loughlin
R708 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The B*easts (Paperback): Monica Dolan The B*easts (Paperback)
Monica Dolan
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"...a lot of these things, these impulses, are healthy things, but they just get distorted. Or maybe it's the world that gets - is - distorted, but you see, it's my job to get people to fit in with the world, distorted or not, so that they feel happy. Or, not sad. Or...functioning." Tessa is a psychotherapist who has been instructed to provide a medical report on one of her patients for the criminal court. This has been Tessa's most exceptional case in all her twenty years of practice. As treatment progresses she finds herself asking deeper, more far-reaching questions, not just about her patient, but the world and its motives. The B*easts is a chillingly relevant tale of the pornification of culture and sexualisation of our children, and how far one mum will go to put what her child wants first.

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