Other performing arts

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert parties and their popular performance heritage.

Cedric J.

Miguel de Cervantes's experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths.

Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D Shapes explains how to create your theatrical prop, puppet, or costume design using the unique and tricky medium of foam.

In Dance for Sports, author, teacher, dancer, athlete, and researcher Margo Apostolos offers a new training approach for athletes and coaches that synthesizes common techniques between athletics and dance.

Rena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life until his death at the age of 66.

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

A Galaxy of Things explores the ways in which all puppets, masks, makeup-prosthetic figures are "e;material characters,"e; using iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 to illustrate what makes them so compelling.

Since it was founded in 1991, British theatre company Stan's Cafe has garnered an international reputation for artistic innovation, and prolific, eclectic performance projects.

Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse contemporary art contexts.

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry.

Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel.

On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts.

Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where the Boys Are, Ball of Fire, Sterile Cuckoo); famous comedian comedies (Horse Feathers, The Nutty Professor, The Klumps); intergenerational college comedies (That's My Boy, Back to School, Old School); social comedies (The Graduate, Breaking Away, Risky Business); political comedies (Getting Straight, Strawberry Statement, Last Supper); ethnic comedies (School Daze, Soul Man, How High); and college farces (Charlie's Aunt, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Slackers).

This classic book contains a photographic guide to the history of the shadow puppet theatre in the West, and will prove to be be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject.

'piercingly honest witty wonderful' - The Observer'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me that's why I love Rosie Wilby!

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity.

By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities.

This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century.

How may the lives of individuals and a community be impacted by a durational applied theatre and arts-based project?

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

"Wusch, wusch, wusch, rums .

Site-based dance performance and sited movement explorations implicate dance makers, performers and audience members in a number of dialogical processes between body, site and environment.

'A hilarious must read.

A story of activists in South Saharan Africa using performance as a tactic of resistance and intervention in their struggles for human rights.

For all of the political, economic, and technological obstacles that stand in the way of addressing climate change, perhaps the greatest challenge is in the realm of imagination.

A Mile of Make Believe examines the unique history of the Santa Claus parade in Canada.

'If I'm going to tell the story of a life, my life, then I need to tell it warts and all.

"Fragte man mich nach der Herkunft, ich sagte: Ich komme von Schubert, Cave, Cohen und so weiter …"Anna Baar erzählt von Menschen und Werken, die ihre ästhetische Welterschließung auf unterschiedlichste Weise beeinflusst haben.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This volume contains full instructions for playing a vast array of different card games ranging from Poker to Irish Loo, as well as chapters on card tricks, the history of playing cards, 'cartomancy', and more.

Explores the literary and cultural significance of the unruly solo dancer in the ancient Greek world.

Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart.

Die Kunst der Mosaiken ist ein Fenster in die Vergangenheit, das die Geschichten, Ästhetik und Techniken antiker Kulturen auf faszinierende Weise enthüllt.

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluating the theoretical, historical,and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.

Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where the Boys Are, Ball of Fire, Sterile Cuckoo); famous comedian comedies (Horse Feathers, The Nutty Professor, The Klumps); intergenerational college comedies (That's My Boy, Back to School, Old School); social comedies (The Graduate, Breaking Away, Risky Business); political comedies (Getting Straight, Strawberry Statement, Last Supper); ethnic comedies (School Daze, Soul Man, How High); and college farces (Charlie's Aunt, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Slackers).

A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation.

A comprehensive history and analysis of the hilarious British comedy film franchise.

This text details a number of Houdini's famous tricks and techniques, offering comprehensive explanations of how the master escape artist achieved some of his most baffling and impressive tricks.

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured?

Nations in Southeast Asia have gone through a period of rapid change within the last century as they have grappled with independence, modernization, and changing political landscapes.

Yoga in the Music Studio brings the popular and beneficial practice of yoga to music teachers and students of all instruments and ages, from preschoolers to senior adults and all those in-between.

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male heterosexual strip club "e;regulars.

Magic and conjuring inhabit the boundaries and the borderlands of performance.

Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike.

Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense.