Author: David WillingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Theatrical Gestures
Author: David WillingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Gestures of Music Theater
Author: Dominic SymondsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199997152
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Gestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theatre is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.
Gestures of Music Theater
Author: Dominic SymondsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199997160
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Gestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theatre is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.
Theatrical Gestures of Belgian Modernism
Author: David WillingerPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Theatrical Gestures of Belgian Modernism assembles a series of brilliant dramatic works issuing from a remarkably fecund modern period of artistic creation in Belgium. It includes dadaists like Clément Pansaers and Paul Joostens; surrealists like Paul Nougé, René Magritte, Paul Colinet, Fernand Dumont, and Marcel Mariën; expressionists like Michel De Ghelderode and Norge; and futurists like Georges Linze. In an introduction of great historical accuracy and detail, editor David Willinger guides the reader through the maze of modernist tendencies that blossomed, intersected, and combated throughout the first part of the twentieth century in Belgium. Many of these works, whose extraordinary iconoclasm defy presentation on a conventional stage, herald some of the more radical experiments in theatrical and dramatic craft later in the century.
Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing
Author: Asbjørn GrønstadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317202023
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent mediasphere where images – as lenses bearing on their own circumstances – are constantly mobilized to enact symbolic forms of warfare and where they get entangled in all kinds of cultural conflicts and controversies, a turn to the gestural life of images seems to promise a particularly pertinent avenue of intellectual inquiry. The complex gestures of the artwork remain an under-explored theoretical topos in contemporary visual culture studies. In visual art, the gestural appears to be that which intervenes between form and content, materiality and meaning. But as a conceptual force it also impinges upon the very process of seeing itself. As a critical and heuristic trope, the gestural galvanizes many of the most pertinent areas of inquiry in contemporary debates and scholarship in visual culture and related disciplines: ethics (images and their values and affects), aesthetics (from visual essentialism to transesthetics and synesthesia), ecology (iconoclastic gestures and spaces of conflict), and epistemology (questions of the archive, memory and documentation). Offering fresh perspectives on many of these areas, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing will be intensely awaited by readers from and across several disciplines, such as anthropology, linguistics, performance, theater, film and visual studies.
The Art of Gesture
Author: Dene BarnettTheatre of Movement and Gesture
Author: Jacques LecoqPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134240988
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautré celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action; Adapted to the English Drama. From a Work on the Same Subject by M. Engel ...
Author: Johann Jacob EngelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Eloquent Gestures
Author: Roberta E. PearsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520073654
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Pearson writes beautifully, clearly, and entertainingly (with a touch of sardonic sarcasm here and there). This is the single best work centering on performance in film that I have read."--Thomas Gunning, author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage
Author: Charles Reginald DodwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521661881
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This 1999 book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. Reginald Dodwell was an eminent art historian and former Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. In this, his last book, he notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence. He presents evidence for dating the archetype of the Terence manuscripts to the mid-third century, and argues persuasively that their gestures reflect actual stage conventions. He identifies a repertory of eighteen Terentian gestures whose meaning can be ascertained from the dramatic contexts in which they occur, and conducts a detailed examination of the use of the gestures in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The book, which is extensively illustrated, illuminates our understanding of the vigour of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.