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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “j mccutcheon”
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  • Embodied Consciousness

    Performance Technologies

    Edited by J. McCutcheon, B. Sellers-Young ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume of essays combines research from neuroscience, conscious studies, methods of training performers, modes of creating a staged narrative, Asian aesthetics, and post-modern theories of performance in an examination of the relationship between consciousness and performance. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Pina Bausch

    by Royd Climenhaga ...
    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch’s work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work offers new and exciting insight into the theatrical approach of a singular performance practitioner.This is an essential introduction to the life ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps

    Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

    by Marlon M. Bailey ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hip Hop Dance

    Meanings and Messages

    by Carla Stalling Huntington ...
    Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

    by Donna Coates, Kathy K. Y. Chung, Carmen Derksen, Sherrill Grace, Martin Morrow, Jeton Neziraj ...
    Series Book 8 - The West
    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • New York City and the Hollywood Musical

    Dancing in the Streets

    by Martha Shearer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In examining the relationship between the spectacular, iconic and vibrant New York of the musical and the off-screen history and geography of the real city—this book explores how the city shaped the genre and equally how the genre shaped representations of the city. Shearer argues that while the musical was for many years a prime vehicle for the idealization of urban density, the transformation ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Contemporary Street Arts in Europe

    Aesthetics and Politics

    by S. Haedicke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that enables the public to rehearse democratic practices. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Performing the Remembered Present

    The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music

    by Pil Hansen, Dr Bettina Bläsing, Professor John Lutterbie, Prof Nicola Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing artists render artistic practice a rich context for understanding how memory is formed, utilized and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde

    Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia

    by Irina Sirotkina, Roger Smith ...
    The touch and movement senses have a large place in the modern arts. This is widely discussed and celebrated, often enough as if it represents a breakthrough in a primarily visual age. This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. It makes this history vivid through a picture of movement in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers

    Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World

    by A. Shay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Akram Khan

    Dancing New Interculturalism

    by Royona Mitra ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD