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Revolutionary bodies: Chinese dance and the socialist legacy
This book examines the history of concert dance in China from 1935 to 2015, with a focus on Chinese dance and its relationship to revolutionary performance culture in PRC history. The book argues that Chinese dance, not revolutionary ballet, was the primary legacy of Maoist dance research and innovation. Showing the relationship between dance and politics, it discusses dance developments during…
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- edision 16
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520971905
- Collation
- xv, 305p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 792.80951 WIL r
Screenwriting : creative labor and professional practice
Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyses the histories, practices, identities and subject which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters. Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigates and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Chapters explore areas including screenwriting as creative labor, scre…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203080771
- Collation
- VII, 155 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.43023 CON s
Turn on the light on science: a research-based guide to break down popular st…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911529057
- Collation
- xvi, 104p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 530.092 TIN t
Independent theatre in contemporary Europe
Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and perfor…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783837632439
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- -
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 808.2 IND i
Managing diversity: practices of citizenship
9780776606545
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780776606545
- Collation
- vii, 233p.: ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8 MAN m
Emerging bodies: the performance of worldmaking in dance and choreography
The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance world…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839415962
- Collation
- 264p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792.62 EME e
Performing citizenship: bodies, agencies, limitations
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319975023
- Collation
- xii, 318p.: ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.484 HIL p
Dance and politics: moving beyond boundaries
"Since ancient times and across cultures, dance has provided a powerful form of human expression. In this inspiring book, Dana Mills examines the political power of dance from a global perspective. Mills explores different dimensions of dance as a form of intervention into a politics more commonly articulated in words. She is interested in dance as a system of communication that allows its subj…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526105172
- Collation
- xi, 132p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.4846 MIL d
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