Author: Giovanni-Andrea GalliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Critical Observations on the Art of Dancing
Author: Giovanni-Andrea GalliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
What the Eye Hears
Author: Brian SeibertPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429947616
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Magisterial, revelatory, and-most suitably-entertaining, What the Eye Hears offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap dancing. Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, begins by exploring tap's origins as a hybrid of the jig and clog dancing from the British Isles and dances brought from Africa by slaves. He tracks tap's transfer to the stage through blackface minstrelsy and charts its growth as a cousin to jazz in the vaudeville circuits and nightclubs of the early twentieth century. Seibert chronicles tap's spread to ubiquity on Broadway and in Hollywood, analyzes its decline after World War II, and celebrates its rediscovery and reinvention by new generations of American and international performers. In the process, we discover how the history of tap dancing is central to any meaningful account of American popular culture. This is a story with a huge cast of characters, from Master Juba (it was probably a performance of his in a Five Points cellar that Charles Dickens described in American Notes for General Circulation) through Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Gene Kelly and Paul Draper to Gregory Hines and Savion Glover. Seibert traces the stylistic development of tap through individual practitioners, vividly depicting dancers both well remembered and now obscure. And he illuminates the cultural exchange between blacks and whites over centuries, the interplay of imitation and theft, as well as the moving story of African-Americans in show business, wielding enormous influence as they grapple with the pain and pride of a complicated legacy.What the Eye Hears teaches us to see and hear the entire history of tap in its every step.
Critical Observations of the Art of Dancing
Author: Giovanni-Andrea GalliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Dancers Talking Dance
Author: Larry LavenderPublisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN: 9780873226677
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Learn how to formulate critical responses to the dances you see, create, and perform. In Dancers Talking Dance, author Larry Lavender outlines the five-step ORDER approach to critical evaluation: Observation, Reflection, Discussion, Evaluation, and Recommendations for revisions. Lavender introduces and explains the approach by interweaving practical, how-to examples with explanations of the theories underlying each step. He also provides writing and discussion ideas designed to stimulate thinking about the critical process and how it works. With these skills, you will learn how to observe, describe, analyze, write, and talk more effectively about dances and other works of art. Dancers Talking Dance will enrich your choreography experiences and expand you critical skills, helping you to become a more articulate, creative, and confident dancer.
Critical Observations on the Art of Dancing
Author: Giovanni Andrea Battista GalliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotillions
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London
Author: Michael BurdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135155171X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera was directed by the great castrato, Farinelli. It is not known quite how Francesco Vanneschi, the opera promoter, came to hire Mingotti, but in 1754 (travelling to England via Paris), she was announced as being engaged for the opera in London 'having been admired at Naples and other parts of Italy, by all the Connoisseurs, as much for the elegance of her voice as that of her features'. Michael Burden offers the first considered survey of Mingotti‘s London years, including material on Mingotti's publication activities, and the identification of the characters in the key satirical print 'The Idol'. Burden makes a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of eighteenth-century singers' careers and status, and discusses the management, the finance, the choice of repertory, and the pasticcio practice at The King's Theatre, Haymarket during the middle of the eighteenth century. Burden also argues that Mingotti‘s years with Farinelli influenced her understanding of drama, fed her appreciation of Metastasio, and were partly responsible for London labelling her a 'female Garrick'. The book includes the important publication of the complete texts of both of Mingotti's Appeals to the Publick, accounts of the squabble between Mingotti and Vanneschi, which shed light on the role a singer could play in the replacement of arias.
Critical Observations on the Art of Dancing
Author: Giovanni-Andrea GalliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotillions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Author: William BrownBibliotheca Cantiana. A Catalogue of a Collection of Books, Pamphlets, and Prtins, Relating to the County of Kent...
Author: Teaching Dance as Art in Education
Author: Brenda Pugh McCutchenPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736051880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Brenda McCutchen provides an integrated approach to dance education, using four cornerstones: dancing and performing, creating and composing, historical and cultural inquiry and analysing and critiquing. She also illustrates the main developmental aspects of dance.