Performing Arts Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (252) essays
Performing Arts essays:
Evolution of Modern Dance
... of modern dance in Berlin, Germany. Ruth St. Denis, born Ruth Dennis, offered a performance of Radha, her first dance work, in 1906. She married her dance partner, Ted Shawn, eight years later. Together they founded the Denishawn Dance Company. Two famous names in modern dance, Martha Graham and ...
Eddie Izzard and Optimism in Stand-up Comedy
... of everyday life and can be analyzed as a societal issue. From these examples, we can analyze Eddie Izzard s material according to genre. The first, and oldest, genre of comedy that Eddie Izzard may fit into is known as Greek and Roman Comedy. It is believed that the basis of comedy came about in ...
"Cabaret"
... in Kinghtnridge Theater Los Angeles, CA. The play is based on a book by Joe Masteroff and it is about Berlin the life in Berlin before the Nazis came. Berlin back in the 1930s was the bastion of decadence; much like California in 1960s Berlin was famous for drugs, sex and music. Berlin in ...
Theater Studies
... and choreographers. Throughout much of the twentieth century, theatrical representations of intercultural performance was created for purposes of political expression and frequently employed technological innovations-- these are not features limited to works from the 1960s ...
This summary of David Pelicane's essay "My Eleven Minutes of Fame on the Open Mike" chronicles this writer's attempt to fulfill his quaint dream of performing in front of an audience.
... of his own songs to a real audience in a town that had a music scene." While his turn on the open mike wasn't quite what he had expected, David had finally performed in front of spectators, and could now cross that off of his life's list of ...
A production design for the play oedipus rex by sophoclese with the ideas of artaud.
... of life and objects, even its cannibalism, do not gush out on an illusory make-believe, but on an inner level.' I feel his focus on creating the conditions for the audience to revel in taboo subjects and break with the passive nature of the modern audience ...
Peter Brook and Marat/Sade
... of Marat/Sade offered the challenge of presenting such an elaborate play within the margins of a stage. Brook could have chosen, as many directors converting plays and musicals into film versions have done before, to expand on the setting in ...
"Australian Plays explore the different ways people cope when things change or go wrong"
... life. In a class workshop in an effort to represent Garys determination a student hammered the house harder and constantly. In Act 1 scene six it is clear that Gary is determined to build the house, in the stage directions Oswald wrote Gary pointedly concentrates on work and ...
"My Fear of Public Speaking" by Josh Abney
... life. Stricken with fear, we begin our piece that has now become so routine. We are virtually flawless in every aspect of the game. That is just what performing has become to me, a game. It is so much fun, and for nine minutes and ...
This is a Music Critique on an Iwukuni Japan Baroque period Orchestra.
... and conducted with a curious mixture of control and abandon. The performance appeared choreographed to the 100th degree, controlled in such detail that it became more spontaneous than spontaneity. The conductor focused his choral passages by centering them on one or two prominent vocal parts, and ...