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Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey: The Creative Impulse of Reconstruction
Directing the Dance Legacy of Doris Humphrey looks inside four of Doris Humphrey’s major choreographic works—Water Study (1928), The Shakers (1931), With My Red Fires (1936), and Passacaglia (1938)—with an eye to how directorial strategies applied in recent contemporized stagings in the United States and Europe could work across the modern and contemporary dance genre.
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Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta, a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years, shifts the focus from asking \"Who is the dramaturg?\" to \"What does the dramaturg think about?\"
Profeta explores five arenas for the dramaturg's attention—text and language, research, audience, movement, and interculturalism. Drawing on her extended collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon, she grounds her thinking in actual rehearsal-room examples and situates practice within theoretical discourse about contemporary dramaturgy. Moving between theory and practice, word and movement, question and answer until these distinctions blur, she develops the foundational concept of dramaturgical labor as a quality of motion.
Dramaturgy in Motion will be invaluable to practitioners and scholars interested in the processes of creating contemporary dance and movement performance—particularly artists wondering what it might be like to collaborate with a dramaturg and dramaturgs wondering what it might be like to collaborate on movement performance. The book will also appeal to those intrigued by the work of Lemon and his collaborators, to which Profeta turns repeatedly to unfold the thorny questions and rich benefits of dramaturgical labor.
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Dance production : design and technology
Dance Production: Design and Technology introduces you to the skills you need to plan, design, and execute the technical aspects of a dance production. While it may not seem that staging a dance production is that different from a play or musical, in reality a dance performance offers up unique intricacies and challenges all its own, from scenery that accommodates choreography, to lighting design that sculpts the body, and costumes that complement movement. This unique book approaches the process of staging a dance production from a balanced perspective, making it an essential resource for dancers and designers alike.
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Uproot : travels in twenty-first-century music and digital culture
In 2001 Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix and put it online to share with friends. Within weeks, Gold Teeth Thief became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to play a nightclub in Zagreb, a gallery in Osaka, a former brothel in Sao Paolo, and the American Museum of Natural History. Just as the music world made its fitful, uncertain transition from analog to digital, Clayton found himself on the front lines of creative upheavals of art production in the twenty-first century globalized world. Uproot is a guided tour of this newly-opened cultural space. With humor, insight, and expertise, Clayton illuminates the connections between a Congolese hotel band and the indie-rock scene, Mexican rodeo teens and Israeli techno, and Whitney Houston and the robotic voices is rural Moroccan song, and offers an unparalleled understanding of music in the digital age.
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ORIENT EXPRESS
\"Some projects are harder to imagine than others. Transposing the Warner Bros. movie classic, Casablanca, into a full-length ballet is daunting enough, but the thought of premiering it in the 10,000-seat Great Hall of the People in Beijing is almost overwhelming. Director/choreographer John Clifford...did just that [in March 2005], and in the process overcame enormous cultural and technical difficulties.\" (Entertainment Design) The challenges of opening the ballet adaptation of Casablanca in Beijing, China, its first stop on an international tour, are described.
Journal Article
Tina Ramirez and Ballet Hispanico
\"It seems dancing has always been a part of life for Tina Ramirez, founder and artistic director of the nation's preeminent Hispanic American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico...Ballet Hispanico has grown from a modest Manhattan neighborhood dance studio to one of the nation's leading professional training programs, with approximately 600 in-house students learning ballet, Spanish dance, and modern dance. In addition, the school's 'Primeros Pasos' program brings dance and Hispanic culture to more than 28,000 public school students and teachers in New York and across the nation.\" (Hispanic Outlook) This profile of Ramirez's life and career highlights Ballet Hispanico's role in educating audiences about Latin dance, culture and history.
Magazine Article
Putin Takes Control over the Bolshoi
Russian \"President Vladimir V. Putin has shaken up the leadership of the troubled Bolshoi Theater, dismissing its director and asserting tighter government control over one of Russia's most renowned cultural institutions\" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER). Learn why Putin took control of the theater. The troubles the theater has been having are discussed.
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