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Joseph Keckler's signatures are his magnificent three-plus-octave operatic voice and the mesmerizing stories he tells. Combining original pieces with material from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more of himself on the page. In these tales, one can't easily draw a line between reality, embellishment, and fantasy. Odd jobs and odder employers: what is it like to work for a blind man who runs an...
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No other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimitable style, she has embodied some of the most troubling figures to cast a long shadow on the public imagination, and has envisioned a kind of catharsis within each drama: Liza Minnelli responds to the September 11 attacks; Terri Schiavo explains why Americans love a woman in a coma; Martha Stewart dumps George W. Bush during their...
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The sparkling memoir of a movie icon's life in the footlights and on camera, The Good, the Bad, and Me tells the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his craft. Beginning with his early days in Brooklyn and his college years in Texas, where he dreamed of becoming an actor, this book follows his career as one of the earliest members of the famed Actors Studio and as a Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway. Wallach has worked...
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Raising Simba takes readers on a journey from the dim corners of the South Side of Chicago to the bright lights of Broadway.
The idea of starring as one of the world's most beloved characters on one of the world's biggest stages seems like a far-fetched fantasy. Mom, arts education advocate and fashion designer Falisa Ray made it a reality.
In Raising Simba, readers will discover:
• Practical parenting guidance on helping creative children discover...
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Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty, Maria del Bosco, Panic (How to Be Happy! ), Bad...
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Un livre poétique consacré à l'opéra et à son histoire.
Opéra ? Qu'entendez-vous par là ? - le théâtre réunissant à la fois : drame, chant (solistes et chœurs), symphonie, danses, costumes, décors,éclairages et machinerie, qui a pris dès sa fondation en Europe le nom d'opéra, c'est-à-dire " œuvre par excellence". Désir et ambition d'un spectacle total don’t l'évolution, de l'Orfeo (1607) de Monteverdi aux créations les plus...
88) How to Handle an Anthropologist: Russell Shuttleworth, PhD interviews shaman/performance artist F
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In 1997, shaman/performance artist Frank Moore was contacted by Russell Shuttleworth, a then University of California, Berkeley graduate student, working on his doctoral dissertation. The thesis was a research study to help understand how men with moderate to severe cerebral palsy experience and interpret their search for intimacy and sexual relationships in the face of significant social and cultural barriers, or as Frank called it, "The Sexual Practices...
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Do you want to be part of the growing audiobook industry? Are you an indie author looking to expand your readership? Learn how to narrate and produce your own professional quality audiobook within a budget.
I won't bore you with a list of my expert qualifications because I don't have any. I'm not a tech wiz. I'm not an actor. I'm an average person, just like you, and if I can do it, then so can you.
In this step-by-step beginner's guide, you'll...
90) Walk the line
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Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
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Most fans of the artist Edward Gorey know him as the author of lavishly drawn, sparely plotted little books in which hapless characters come to unpleasant ends. But if you happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might know him as a dramatist. From Boston's Poets' Theatre to New York's Broadway, and from Bourne to Provincetown on Cape Cod, Edward Gorey applied his distinctive wit to writing and directing plays for actors and puppets-occasionally...
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Partez à la découverte de l'art vidéo avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
On peut définir l' art vidéo comme une télévision faite par des artistes: il s'agit de productions privées, parfois rudimentaires, qui visent moins à la distraction qu'à des buts esthétiques communs à d'autres formes d'art contemporain.
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur l'art video.
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Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as...
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Explore four of Shakespeare's comedies like never before–with LEGO bricks! This book presents Shakespeare's most delightful comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest, in one thousand amazing color photographs. This unique adaptation of the world's most famous plays stays true to Shakespeare's original text, while giving audiences an exciting new perspective as the stories are retold with...
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Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the realities of life in a conflict...
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Dinomania was, originally commissioned by New Diorama Theatre, running from 19 February to 23 March 2019.
165 million years ago, an iguanodon is, killed in the heart of a rainforest. Time passes, the rainforest becomes the South Downs, and every part of the iguanodon degrades and disappears, except one tooth.
197-years ago, in safe, affluent 1820s Sussex, a country doctor finds the tooth. But where, does it fit in the story of an earth created by...
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Enter the magical world of fairy tales retold through LEGO bricks! Filled with creative and whimsical settings built from this universally celebrated toy, this book presents an all-new retelling of the original Grimm's fairy tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, and more! With one thousand color photographs, this inspired adaptation uses intricately designed brick sets to present some of the most cherished...
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Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences-Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action-describing how musicians who didn't know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music. When they wrote it, they lived at opposite ends of the country: Faulkner in Massachusetts, Becker in San Francisco. Instead of sitting around talking about...
100) The Mudd Club
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I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was "out there" versus "in here" and I was on the inside. The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon- to- be famous, along with an eclectic core of Mudd regulars who gave the place its identity. Everyone from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg...
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