Performing Arts: Books & eBooks
Performing Arts Resources
Musical Theatre
Pop with gods, Shakespeare, and AI : popular film, (musical) theatre, and TV drama by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9789811572975Publication Date: 2020Iris Tuans book is wide-ranging in scope and diversity, examining theatre, music, film and television productions from both Western and Asian countries.
Cultural identity in British musical theatre, 1890-1939 : knowing one's place by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9781137598073Publication Date: 2018Represents the first in-depth study of over forty works of British musical comedy (1890–1939) using the original play-texts.
Rock in the musical theatre : a guide for singers by Call Number: Central : MT956 .C613 2019 (Book)ISBN: 9780190943462Publication Date: 2019oday's musical theatre world rocks. Now that rock 'n' roll music and its offshoots, including pop, hard rock, rap, r&b, funk, folk, and world-pop music, are the standard language of musical theatre, theatre singers need a source of information on these styles, their origins, and their performance practices.
Acting in musical theatre : a comprehensive guide by Call Number: Central : MT956 .D44 2021 (Book)ISBN: 9780367233280Publication Date: 2021Acting in Musical Theatre's chapters divide into easy-to-reference units, each containing group and solo exercises, making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike.
Auditions
Successful singing auditions by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 1-4725-3849-8Publication Date: 2002This guide covers assessing the potential auditioner's skills, analysing their voice, choosing and preparing appropriate songs, learning material in a hurry, and identifying their role within an audition.
An actor's guide to getting work by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 1-283-47878-1Publication Date: 2012Essential reading for any young actor'' Dame Maggie Smith Competition for acting work is fierce and talent is not necessarily enough.
Auditioning for musical theatre by Call Number: Central : MT956 .B47 2019 (Book)ISBN: 9781138350304Publication Date: 2019Auditioning for Musical Theatre demystifies the process of giving the best possible professional audition for a role in a musical. It is the result of Denny Berry’s own experience, sitting "behind the audition desk" for 30 years of professional Broadway auditions.
The ultimate musical theater college audition guide : advice from the people who make the decisions by Call Number: Central : MT956 .S4 2019 (Book)ISBN: 9780190925055Publication Date: 2019In The Ultimate Musical Theatre College Audition Guide, author, acting teacher, and musical theatre program director Amy Rogers offers an honest, no-nonsense guide to the musical theatre audition.
Dance
Physics and dance by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9780300240634Publication Date: 2019Readers will come away with a broad cultural knowledge of Newtonian to quantum mechanics and classical to contemporary dance.
The people's dance : the power and politics of Guangchang Wu by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9789811591662Publication Date: 2020This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance in China has become a national phenomenon.
(Re)positioning site dance : local acts, global perspectives by Call Number: Central : GV1595 .B37 2019 (Book)ISBN: 9781783209989Publication Date: 2019This co-authored book aims to articulate international approaches to making, performing and theorizing site-based dance.
Moving oceans : celebrating dance in the South Pacific by Call Number: Central :GV1726 .M68 2014 (Book)ISBN: 9781138016828Publication Date: 2014Celebrating the diversity of dance across the South Pacific, this volume studies the various experiences, motivations and aims for dance, emerging from the voices of dance professionals in the islands.
Performing Arts Staff Programme Publications
Associate Professor Hillary Halba
(Journal Article)
Halba, H. (2015) "Poetry, Politics, the Past, and the Present: Interweaving Maori Postcolonial Theatre with Brecht in Kilimogo’s Production of Apirana Taylor’s Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred Eater." Journal Of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.133 – 148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps.3.2.133_1
Performing Arts
Faces of tradition in Chinese performing arts by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9780253045867Publication Date: 2020By focusing on the performance, scholarship, collection, and teaching of instrumental music, folksong, and classical dance from a variety of disciplines-these case studies highlight the importance of the individual in determining how traditions have been and are represented, maintained, and cultivated.
Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9783319729442Publication Date: 2018This book investigates how the performing arts in higher education nationally contribute to the "high impact practices," as identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU).
Psychotherapy, Literature and the Visual and Performing Arts by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 9783319754239Publication Date: 2018Based on theoretical studies, clinical expertise and experiential learning, authors offer detailed guidelines on the value of various art forms in practice.
Knowing in Performing : Artistic Research in Music and the Performing Arts by Call Number: (eBook)ISBN: 3-8394-5287-2Publication Date: 2021By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for researchers, artists and decision-makers inside and outside universities of the arts.
Performing Arts Libraries
Performing Arts Libraries & Special Collections
National Institute of Dramatic Art
University of Bristol - Theatre Collection
Online Archive of California - Guide to the Dance Photograph Collection
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