Higher Education and the Carceral State: Transforming Together explores the diversity of ways in which university faculty and students are intervening in the system of mass incarceration through the development of transformative arts and educational programs for students in correctional institutions.
Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.
Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice, and education into an active dialogue.
Theaters worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this range of work has been determined largely by its directors.
This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself-its materials, its structures-as a medium of emotional communication.
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life women's unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way.
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.
Lessons from our Students: Meditations on Performance Pedagogy is a collection of thirty short personal case studies about pedagogical issues that arise in theater classrooms and rehearsals.
Music Schools in Changing Societies addresses the need to understand instrumental and vocal pedagogy beyond the individual sphere of teacher-student interactions and psychological phenomena, focusing instead on the wider sociocultural, spatial, and institutional contexts of music education.
This study aims to disclose the inner dynamics of the rich and diverse milieu within the Ottoman-Turkish society that created its unique hybrid forms through the scenic arts against an understanding of modernity in terms of a simple import or imitation of Western cultural forms.
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk's use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre.
From magic to monsters to amazing heroes-world mythology for kids ages 6 to 9Myths are stories that have been told over hundreds of years to help explain why the world works the way it does.
Wholehearted Voice Pedagogy: An Integrative Approach to Training Vocal Artists investigates how to develop healthy, equitable, student-teacher relationships in both applied and independent voice lessons.
Quoique peu convaincu par le texte de son oeuvre, un producteur parisien accepte tout de même de produire la toute première pièce de théâtre de Jean-Sybille Blairiot.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "e;blockbusters"e; of the age.
The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban's Unpublished Writings offers new perspectives on the thinking and practice of Rudolf Laban - one of the pioneers of modern European dance and movement analysis.
18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680-1790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring of waistcoats, breeches and coats.
New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive, global, practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history.
Whether you're fighting alongside Zeus in the war against the Titans or witnessing the sabotage of Artemis's love for the mortal Orion, this Greek mythology book for kids 8 to12-year-olds will thrill with extraordinary stories from Greek legend!
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.
Shakespeare's Forgotten Allegory posits three startling points: that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Renaissance; that this character, used to distil classical wisdom regarding how to raise children to become moral adults, consistently appeared in plays performed between 1350 and 1650; and that the character was often utilised by the likes of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and therefore adds a long-forgotten allegorical narrative to their works.
Discover the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg-A story about fighting for justice, for kids ages 6 to 9Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman ever to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of the United States.
