Other performing arts

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360(deg) view on the circus.

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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.

Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry?

Given that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between traditional African puppets, masks, and performing objects and contemporary African American puppetry?

An exciting history of the improv group you've never heard of that changed comedy in America-this is the story of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam as told by its founders and most famous alumni.

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring.

Nach Deutschland mit dem Comedy-Visum – eine verrückte Einwanderungsgeschichte, ungewöhnlich und sympathisch.

The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue.

The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America.

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible?

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakespeare in North America.

This is a collection of short stories mostly fantasy with some horror.

All humans laugh.

One of FX's most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the screen in 2008 and dominated the cable network's programming for seven seasons.

Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the Muppets.

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 study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily.

Descubra el poder de la magia negra y cómo aplicarloHombres y mujeres de todas las épo­cas han creído que hay otro mundo, invisible, eterno y desconocido, donde moran los espíritus y gobiernan ánge­les y demonios.

Comedy is a brutal business.

Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "e;talking records"e; and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works.

Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform.

This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences.

When Abu Walid travels and takes his son to offer his condolences, and Hamdi travels on a business trip that lasts a day and a night, the evening is pleasant and the two friends gather and prepare snacks, sandwiches, hot drinks and fruits, and cover themselves with a heavy blanket and sit in front of the TV watching the evening movie, while the storm roars outside their small, warm, simple world.

This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions.

This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other.

"e;A story that genuinely touches the reader.

This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925.

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.

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances.

This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987.

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy.

This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom).

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

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 book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, "e;Indianness"e;, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India.

Magic with its tricks and illusions continues to enthral audiences all over.

This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club.

Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre.

Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre.

This soulful collection is perfect for fans ofThe MothorHumans of New York.

One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series.

A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice.

Tauche mit Ruby Fairygale in eine magische Welt Ein heftiger Sturm verwüstet die Tierarztpraxis.

Finding the bright side of a terrible situation has never been easier, thanks to the adorable baby animal postcards found in Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back.

Make fun and simple paper craft projects and them use them to perform magic tricks with this easy origami ebook.

Dans un bureau impersonnel et froid se tient un entretien d’embauche.

Une soirée comme les autres.