Other performing arts

When the Nicholas Brothers danced, uptown at the Cotton Club, downtown at the Roxy, in segregated movie theatres in the South, and dance halls across the country, audiences cheered, clapped, stomped their feet, and shouted out uncontrollably.

Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work"e;An absolute must-read"e; Shondaland[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor New York Times They called her Rabbit.

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques.

What is a live performance?

Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age.

In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance.

This vintage book contains a step-by-step guide to ventriloquism, and includes instructions on topics ranging from vocal exercises, to designing and constructing a doll.

This is volume IV of Jean Hugard's fantastic handbook "e;Card Manipulations"e;, which includes simple instructions for a variety of fantastic tricks.

I was standing in the park today wondering, why does a Frisbee appear larger the closer it gets?

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS ACCESS-ALL-AREAS PASS ONTO THE SET OF THE UK'S MUCH-LOVED ENTERTAINMENT GAMESHOW?

Tracing the development in Sicily of a chivalric tradition based on the medieval stories of Charlemagne and his knights, this is an analysis of Sicilian storytelling, puppetry, festivals, cart painting and other folk art.

This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, classical Japanese dance-drama.

"e;Glove Puppetry"e; is a classic guide to glove puppets, including chapters on its history, how to make puppets, how to put on a performance, and much more.

How many eggs have been broken in the making of this programme?

a one-off from the word go, and no history of English humour could overlook him.

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries.

Have you ever wanted to be a lumberjack?

Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition, telepathy, fire manipulation, teleportation, water powers, and shifting.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors.

This book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist using a science communication lens.

Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

Digital traces, whether digitized (programs, notebooks, drawings, etc.

Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized.

The complete Timothy Lea and Rosie Dixon confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.

NEW IN PAPERBACKFirst performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre.

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand.

This book contains a collection of mystifying magic and card tricks.

When writer, comedian and Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn's son scrawled a picture of him at Christmas and titled it 'Some Old Bloke', Robert was cast deep into thought about life and what it means to be a bloke - and an old one at that.

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age.

The Art of Dying: 21st Century Depictions of Death and Dying examines how contemporary media platforms are used to produce creative accounts, responses and reflections on the course of dying, death and grief.

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world?

What is it to be a stand-up comedian?

Im Oktober 2006 wurde der Circus Royal in der Schweiz von der ALF, der Animal Liberation Front, angegriffen.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, Bryden presents this #1 Calgary Herald bestseller detailing the fascinating true story of the romance that started the Stampede.

Arms And The Man' is a three-act play written by Bernard Shaw in 1920.

The little-known true story of how a flamboyant circus promoter helped introduce Japan to the West in the late 19th century.

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live.

Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition, telepathy, fire manipulation, teleportation, water powers, and shifting.

Comprehensive and accessible coverage of the study of conflict Managing Conflict Through Communication helps students approach conflict constructively and learn more positive conflict management and resolution skills.

"e;Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history.

Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse.

"e;The entire town is disguised,"e; declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice.

Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater.