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2022-05-11 Performing Arts

Author : Thomas G Leabhart
Release : 2022-05-11
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig by : Thomas G Leabhart

Download or read book Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig written by Thomas G Leabhart. This book was released on 2022-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of Etienne Decroux’s artistic genealogy. After four years’ apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux’s project. Decades of digging revealed striking correspondences that often led to adjacent fields—art history, philosophy, and anthropology—forays wherein Leabhart’s appreciation of Decroux and his "kinsfolk," who themselves transgressed traditional frontiers, increased. The following essays, composed over a 30-year period, find a common source in a darkened Prague cinema where people gasped at a wooden doll’s sudden reversal of fortune. These essays: investigate the source of that astonishment; continue Leabhart's examination of Decroux’s "family tree"; consider how Copeau's and Decroux's keen observation of animal movement influenced their actor training; record the challenging and paradoxical improvisations chez Decroux; and recall Decroux’s debt to sculpture, poster art, sport and masks. These essays will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre and performance studies.

Performer Training for Actors and Athletes

2023-06-15 Performing Arts

Author : Frank Camilleri
Release : 2023-06-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 329/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Performer Training for Actors and Athletes written by Frank Camilleri. This book was released on 2023-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on in the body and mind of an endurance athlete at the limits of performance? How do they relate to the world around and prepare for the task ahead? Offering a refreshing perspective on training in the cross-lighting of aesthetic and athletic processes, this book focuses on the learning, mastery and creative adaptation of technique in performance. From traditional and physical actors to runners, boxers and other sports practitioners, it is about performers: their bodies, trainings and experiences. It interrogates what it means to prepare and train as a performer in the early 21st century. Writing from extensive experience in physical theatre and long-distance running, the author combines insights from both disciplines along with theatre history, sports science and perspectives like embodied cognition and affective science. From the kind of thoughts that go through the mind of an actor or a runner, to the economy and aesthetic of their movement and to how they feel about it, this book sheds light on the performing body and its capacities for action. Topics covered include attentional focus and distraction, affordances and equipment, 'choking' and stage fright, physiological regulation and effort perception, pacing and play, optimal flow and creative improvisation, and intentionality and automaticity in expert performance. The volume presents an informative and thought-provoking account accessible to readers interested in theatre, dance, performance, running, athletics, and sport.

Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan

2022-01-31 History

Author : Guo Chao
Release : 2022-01-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Chinese Traditional Theatre and Male Dan written by Guo Chao. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines male dan, a male actor who performs female roles in Chinese theatre. Through the rise, fall and tenuous survival of male dan in Chinese history, Guo Chao reflects the transformations in the social zeitgeist in China, especially the politics of gender and sexuality. The breadth of this study reflects a diversified set of sources, ranging from classical to contemporary texts (texts of jingju plays, memoirs, collections of notation books) and other commentaries and critical evaluations of dan actors (in both English and Chinese languages) to video and audio materials, films and personal interviews. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of East Asian/Chinese studies across the fields of theatre, history, culture and literature.

Mysticism in the Theater

2022-02-03 Performing Arts

Author : Tom Block
Release : 2022-02-03
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mysticism in the Theater written by Tom Block. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled their ego, and perceived the unity of all, hidden within the apparent multiplicity of existence. This unique manner of spiritual inlay allows theatrical presentations to find the height of artistic expression: art at the intersection of our historical moment and the eternal. This study introduces theater makers to the history of mystical inspiration within performance work and develops strategies for inserting mystical ideas into their productions. The book ties this model into theatre’s history, as mystical ideas and quotes have been inserted into productions from Greek theatre through Shakespeare and into the present day. This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects of contemporary theatrical productions including writing, directing, acting, stagecraft/set design, lighting design, costume design, sound design, and choreography.

Etienne Decroux

2007-04-11 Art

Author : Thomas Leabhart
Release : 2007-04-11
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 929/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Etienne Decroux written by Thomas Leabhart. This book was released on 2007-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators and are unbeatable value for today's student.

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