In Performance

Author : Laura Levin,Marlis Schweitzer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773549876

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Performance Studies in Canada by Laura Levin,Marlis Schweitzer Pdf

Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada. To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments – Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more – produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct. A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.

Author : Angela Hobart,Bruce Kapferer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782382041

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Aesthetics in Performance by Angela Hobart,Bruce Kapferer Pdf

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the “logic” of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.

Author : Wayne Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : 019938214X

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In Performance by Wayne Bailey Pdf

"In Performance teaches music appreciation by focusing on how all listeners first encounter music--through its performance. By emphasizing where music is heard or performed, this text aims to create lifelong, active music listeners who understand the value of different types of music and the impact that it has on their everyday lives. In addition to covering the standard Western music that other music appreciation texts do, In Performance also discusses concert band music, film music, ballet music, jazz, and popular music. Author Wayne Bailey connects the history of music--why it was created and how it was first used--to how and where we hear music now and what it means to us in the present day."-- Amazon.

Author : George W.M. Harrison
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535185

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Seneca in Performance by George W.M. Harrison Pdf

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated and performed. Here, in twelve new papers from a distinguished international cast, scholars explore established questions, such as whether the plays were written for the stage, and newer topics such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521423791

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Beckett in Performance by Jonathan Kalb Pdf

A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCAL:B5141617

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Assessing the Progress of Performance Management in the District of Columbia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia Pdf

Author : Sally Banes,Andre Lepecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134460700

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The Senses in Performance by Sally Banes,Andre Lepecki Pdf

This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the human senses including taste, touch, smell and vision in all sorts of performances in Western and non-Western traditions, from ritual to theatre, from dance to interactive architecture, from performance art to historical opera. With eighteen original essays brought together by an international ensemble of leading scholars and artists including Richard Schechner and Philip Zarrilli. This covers a variety of disciplinary fields from critical studies to performance studies, from food studies to ethnography from drama to architecture. Written in an accessible way this volume will appeal to scholars and non-scholars interested in Performance/Theatre Studies and Cultural Studies.

Author : Patrick Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134431786

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The Body in Performance by Patrick Campbell Pdf

Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area. Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.' Contributors include Rebecca Schneider whose book The Explicit Body in Performance is a key text in this area, and Joan Lipkin, director and writer.

Author : Sir John Whitmore,Performance Consultants International
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473644571

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Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition by Sir John Whitmore,Performance Consultants International Pdf

Coaching delivers high performance in you, your team, and your organization. "Coaching for Performance is the proven resource for all coaches and pioneers of the future of coaching." - Magdalena N. Mook, CEO, International Coach Federation (ICF) "Shines a light on what it takes to create high performance." - John McFarlane, Chairman, Barclays, Chairman, TheCityUK Coaching for Performance is the definitive book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success. Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand-new practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822375128

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Performance by Diana Taylor Pdf

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

Author : Sarah Bay-Cheng,Chiel Kattenbelt,Andy Lavender
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789089642554

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Mapping Intermediality in Performance by Sarah Bay-Cheng,Chiel Kattenbelt,Andy Lavender Pdf

This insightful book explores the relationship between theater and digital culture. The authors show that the marriage of traditional performance with new technologies leads to an upheaval of the implicit “live” quality of theatre by introducing media interfaces and Internet protocols, all the while blurring the barriers between theater-makers and their audience.

Author : Baz Kershaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136284649

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The Radical in Performance by Baz Kershaw Pdf

The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the blossoming of postmodern performance, much of which has a genuinely radical edge. In staying focused on the period between Brecht and Baudrillard, modernity and postmodernism, Baz Kershaw identifies crucial resources for the revitalisation of the radical across a wide spectrum of cultural practices. This is a timely, necessary and rigorous book. It will be a compelling read for anyone searching for a critical catalyst for new ways of viewing and practising cultural politics.

Author : Olivia Landry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253038050

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Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema by Olivia Landry Pdf

“A rich and welcome addition to the surge of scholarly interest in the Berlin School.” —Studies in European Cinema Through a study of the contemporary German film movement the Berlin School, Olivia Landry examines how narrative film has responded to our highly digitalized and mediatized age, not with a focus on stasis and realism, but by turning back to movement, spectacle, and performance. She argues that a preoccupation with presence, liveness, and affect—all of which are viewed as critical components of live performance—can be found in many of the films of the Berlin School. Challenging the perception that the Berlin School is a sheer adherent of “slow cinema,” Landry closely analyzes the use of movement, dynamism, presence, and speed in a broad selection of films to show how filmmakers such as Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Thomas Arslan, and Christoph Hochhäusler invoke the pulse of the kinesthetic and the tangibly affective. Her analysis draws on an array of film theories from early materialism to body theories, phenomenology, and contemporary affect theories. Arguing that these theories readily and energetically forge a path from film to performance, Landry traces a trajectory between the two through which live experience, presence, spectacle, intersubjectivity, and the body in motion emerge and powerfully intersect. Ultimately, Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema expands the methodological and disciplinary boundaries of film studies by offering new ways of articulating and understanding movement in cinema.

Author : Michiel S. de Vries,Juraj Nemec,David Špaček
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030020774

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Performance-Based Budgeting in the Public Sector by Michiel S. de Vries,Juraj Nemec,David Špaček Pdf

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries. Beginning with a review of theoretical research on performance budgeting and financing, the book synthesises the numerous studies on the subject. The book describes the situation in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Netherlands and Italy, as well as in seven developing countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia and South Africa, at the national, and at the local level. Each chapter provides historical and descriptive details of successful or failed experiments in performance budgeting and performance financing.

Author : Bruno Nettl,Melinda Russell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226574105

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In the Course of Performance by Bruno Nettl,Melinda Russell Pdf

In the Course of Performance is the first book in decades to illustrate and explain the practices and processes of musical improvisation. Improvisation, by its very nature, seems to resist interpretation or elucidation. This difficulty may account for the very few attempts scholars have made to provide a general guide to this elusive subject. With contributions by seventeen scholars and improvisers, In the Course of Performance offers a history of research on improvisation and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis. Such diverse genres as Italian lyrical singing, modal jazz, Indian classical music, Javanese gamelan, and African-American girls' singing games are examined. The most comprehensive guide to the understanding of musical improvisation available, In the Course of Performance will be indispensable to anyone attracted to this fascinating art. Contributors are Stephen Blum, Sau Y. Chan, Jody Cormack, Valerie Woodring Goertzen, Lawrence Gushee, Eve Harwood, Tullia Magrini, Peter Manuel, Ingrid Monson, Bruno Nettl, Jeff Pressing, Ali Jihad Racy, Ronald Riddle, Stephen Slawek, Chris Smith, R. Anderson Sutton, and T. Viswanathan.