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Da Vinci est amoureux
by Margarita Delva Lázaro DroznesLéonard de Vinci reçoit Mona Lisa Ghirardini dans son atelier à Florence pour faire un portrait commandé par son mari. Da Vinci conserve ce tableau en sa possession, ne le rend jamais au client et le prend avec lui dans tous ses mouvements jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Ce fut une longue idylle avec la femme idéale qui a prolongé le reste de sa vie à travers plus de 20 ans de retouches permanentes. C’est une fiction dramatique qui recrée la relation de Leonardo avec Mona Lisa, son assistant Salai et avec la Nature dans sa recherche de la vérité et de la beauté. La peinture continue à captiver l'humanité toute entière après plusieurs siècles et on se pose les mêmes questions que se posaient Da Vinci lui-même: Pourquoi Mona Lisa sourit-elle? Quel mystère se cache derrière cette femme? Quel mystère se cache les femmes? Comme disait le Grand Leonardo: "la beauté est la vérité et la vérité est la beauté". Cet oeuvre tente de pénétrer ces mystères qui inculquent toute l'œuvre de Da Vinci.
Da Vinci in Love: The Endless Love Story Between Leonardo Da Vinci And Mona Lisa
by Lazaro DroznesLeonardo heißt Mona Lisa Ghirardini in seinem Maleratelier im Herzen von Florenz willkommen, um ein Porträt zu malen, das nie an den Besitzer geliefert werden sollte. Da Vinci behielt das Gemälde, retuschierte es in regelmäßigen Abständen und begann eine lange, mehr als 20 Jahre andauernde Liebesbeziehung zu der perfekten Frau. Das Porträt begleitete Leonardo auf all seinen Reisen und zog mehrere Male mit ihm um. Dieses dramatische Werk bildet die Beziehung von Leonardo zur Gioconda, zu seinem Assistenten Salai und zur Welt im Allgemeinen nach. Es zeigt seine unnachgiebige Suche nach Schönheit und Wahrheit. Das Porträt fesselt auch Jahrhunderte nach seiner Entstehung noch die Menschheit und stellt die gleichen Fragen an den Betrachter, die auch Da Vinci selber sich gestellt hat: Warum lacht die Gioconda? Welches Geheimnis verbirgt die Mona Lisa? Wieso spiegelt ein Lächeln die Seele wider? Wie ist das eigentliche Wesen der göttlichen Schönheit? Die Geheimnisse von La Gioconda veranschaulichen sinnbildlich die Geheimnisse des Lebens und der Weiblichkeit.
Daddy Long-Legs: A Comedy in Four Acts
by Jean WebsterA trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to 'Daddy-Long-Legs', or wondering who her mysterious benefactor is...
Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got The Will?
by Del ShoresComedy / 3m, 5f / Interior / "Set in a small Texas town in anytime, U.S.A., Daddy's Dyin' concerns the reunion of a family gathered to await the imminent death of their patriarch, who has recently suffered a physically as well as mentally disabling stroke. In essence, however, it is not the story of the impending demise of the father or of the drafting of his will, but of a rebirth of the spirit of the family unit. Without becoming ponderous, losing a sense of humor or pandering to timeworn cliches about Texans or Texas drawls, the story shares many elements of a good summer novel: it's a fast, delicious, easy read with funny moments, tense moments, touching moments, and characters you care about."-The Hollywood Reporter
Daisy Miller: A Study
by Henry JamesAmerican teenager Daisy miller was on a holiday--and Europe might never recover. From Switzerland to Rome, she caused scandals everywhere: because Daisy Miller did whatever she wanted, with whomever she wanted, whenever she chose.
La dama boba | El perro del hortelano
by Lope de VegaEl presente volumen reúne dos obras maestras de Lope de Vega, El perro del hortelano y La dama boba. Lope Félix de Vega Carpio es uno de los dramaturgos más celebrados de la literatura universal. En España renovó la forma de hacer teatro a finales del siglo XVI y principios del XVII, creando una comedia nueva que cosechó los éxitos del público y del lector y sentó las bases del drama contemporáneo. La dama boba y El perro del hortelano son dos comedias de 1613 que pertenecen a lo que ha venido en llamarse «comedia urbana». Se trata de dos de las obras más conocidas del Fénix de los Ingenios, en las que se analiza el tema de amor, el del honor y el de las relaciones paternofiliales. La presente edición está a cargo de Ismael López Martín, profesor en el departamento de didáctica de las lenguas y de las ciencias humanas y sociales de la Universidad de Zaragoza y especialista en teatro español. Su estudio introductorio y el aparato de notas que ha diseñado constituyen una aportación fundamental. Edición de Ismael López Martín
A dama de ferro: a história secreta de James Barry
by Sátia Marini Juan Carlos Arjona OlleroInglaterra, princípios do século XIX. O império encontra-se no seu apogeu. Em uma sociedade regida pela belicosa ideologia masculina não há espaço para as mulheres. É quando a jovem Margarete, farta de sentir-se relegada em um mundo que decidiu ignorar todas as mulheres, propõe-se a cumprir um sonho a todo custo: estudar medicina e tornar-se cirurgiã. Sua aventura está cheia de peripécias e façanhas incríveis que a levam até mesmo para além dos confins do território imperial, travando uma cruzada para salvar vidas de todos aqueles que estão por perto. A dama de ferro enfrentará a batalha mais cruel contra o seu pior inimigo, a dicotomia entre aceitar sua verdadeira identidade ou servir sob a máscara de James Barry para manter-se fiel aos seus ideais. Descubra a verdadeira história de uma mulher que chegou a ser o “Cavalheiro Perfeito”.
La dama oscura: La vida de Æmilia Bassano Lanyer, la mujer que Shakespeare amó en secreto y lo inspiró a escribir sus obras más famosas
by Cristina PerezLa vida de Æmilia Bassano, la mujer a la que Shakespeare amó en secreto, lo inspiró para escribir sus obras más famosas y que vivió limitada por las restricciones que el renacimiento inglés imponía pero que ahora sí puede ser puesta en primer plano y dada a conocer en todo su esplendor. En pleno siglo XVI, las mujeres casi no tenían derechos en Inglaterra. No sabían leer ni escribir. Æmilia Bassano Lanyer, nacida en una familia de músicos y con formación de princesa, iba a enfrentar un mundo donde hasta la reina Elizabeth I pagaba el precio de ser mujer. Æmilia llegó a la corte como intérprete musical y compositora, pero también como amante de uno de los hombres más poderosos del reino. Fue la primera mujer en publicar un libro en la literatura inglesa y eso la uniría con un poeta y dramaturgo que empezaba a descollar: William Shakespeare. Subyugado por la misteriosa belleza e intelectualidad de Æmilia, él dejaría en sus sonetos registro de ese amor. Allí la menciona crípticamente como "la dama oscura" y hay investigaciones que aseguran que fue coautora de algunas de sus obras e inspiración de historias de origen italiano como Romeo y Julieta. En esta novela, Cristina Pérez busca unir los puntos históricos de un amor que inventó el amor, y recrea un lenguaje y una atmósfera de época con ritmo contemporáneo. Una rigurosa investigación es el telón de fondo para desentrañar quién fue Æmilia Bassano Lanyer, una mujer encorsetada por los límites del renacimiento inglés que, sin embargo, estuvo por delante de su tiempo como pionera de la mujer moderna y libre.
Damaged Goods / The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author
by Eugène Brieux Upton SinclairSynopsis not available
Damsel of the Desert or a Villain Foiled by Virtue
by Fred CarmichaelMelodrama / 2m, 3f / Interior / After Melody's parents are taken by the angels, her grandmother mistakenly throws out her pitiful inheritance: a small pot of gold dust. Melody is pursued by an amnesiac villain, saved by the dauntless hero and enriched by the dirty water in the well (oil) in a riotous tale of loves lost and found.
Dance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach
by Wendy Oliver Doug RisnerDriven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create environments that hinder health, happiness, and success. At the same time, they highlight the individuals working to eliminate discrimination and open up new possibilities for expression and achievement in studios, choreography, performance venues, and institutions of higher education. The dance community can strive to eliminate discrimination, but first it must understand the status quo for gender in the dance world. Wendy Oliver, professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches. Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader. Contributors: Gareth Belling | Karen Bond | Carolyn Hebert | Eliza Larson | Pamela S. Musil | Wendy Oliver | Katherine Polasek | Doug Risner | Emily Roper | Karen Schupp | Jan Van Dyke
Dance and Light: The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design
by Kevin DreyerDance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design, the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines, and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design. The book demystifies lighting for the dancer and helps designers understand how the dancer/choreographer thinks about their art form, providing insight into the choreographer’s process and exploring how designers can make the most of their resources. The author shares anecdotes and ideas from an almost 50-year career as a lighting designer, along with practical examples and insights from colleagues, and stresses the importance of clear communication between designers, choreographers, and dancers. Attention is also given to the choreographer who wants to learn what light can do to help enhance their work on stage. Written in short, stand-alone chapters that allow readers to quickly navigate to areas of interest, Dance and Light is a valuable resource for lighting design classes wishing to add a section on dance lighting, as well as for choreography classes who want to better equip young artists for a significant collaborative partnership.
The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit: Protocols, Practical Considerations, and Templates (The Focal Press Toolkit Series)
by Susan Fenty Studham Michele KayThe Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.This book demystifies the genre-specific protocols and vocabularies for stage managers who might be unfamiliar with these fields and discusses common practices. Filled with valuable industry-tested tools, templates, and practical information, The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit is designed to assist stage managers interested in pursuing these performance genres. The book also includes interviews and contributions from a range of professional stage managers working in dance and opera.From the student stage manager studying in Theatrical Design and Production university programs to the experienced stage manager wanting to broaden their skill set, this book provides resources and advice for a successful transition into these worlds.The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit includes access to an online repository of resources and paperwork examples to help jumpstart the reader’s journey into dance and opera stage management. To access these resources, visit www.routledge.com/9780367566579.
Dance Composition: A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making (Ballet, Dance, Opera And Music Ser. #3)
by Jacqueline M. Smith-AutardFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dance Discourses: Keywords in Dance Research
by Susanne Franco Marina NorderaFocusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then divided into three parts: politics explores 'Ausdruckstanz' – an expressive dance tradition first formulated in the 1920s by dancer Mary Wigman and carried forward in the work of Pina Bausch and others gender examines eighteenth century theatrical dance – a time when elaborate sets, costumes, and plots examined racial and sexual stereotypes identity is concerned with modern dance. Exploring contemporary analytical approaches to understanding performance traditions, Dance Discourses' pedagogical structure makes it ideal for courses in performing arts and humanities.
Dance History: An Introduction
by Janet Adshead-Lansdale June LaysonOriginally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, the editors have brought together a team of internationally known dance historians. Roger Copeland and Deborah Jowitt each take a controversial look at the modern American dance. Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson explain the processes they use when reconstructing 'lost' ballets, and Theresa Buckland and Georgina Gore write on traditional dance in England and West Africa respectively. With other contributions on social dance, ballet, early European modern dance and feminist perspectives on dance history this book offers a multitude of starting points for studying dance history as well as presenting examples of dance writing at its very best. Dance History will be an essential purchase for all students of dance.
Dance in Contested Land: New Intercultural Dramaturgies (New World Choreographies)
by Rachael SwainThis book traces an engagement between intercultural dance company Marrugeku and unceded lands of the Yawuru, Bunuba, and Nyikina in the north west of Australia. In the face of colonial legacies and extractive capitalism, it examines how Indigenous ontologies bring ecological thought to dance through an entangled web of attachments to people, species, geologies, political histories, and land. Following choreographic interactions across the multiple subject positions of Indigenous, settler, and European artists between 2012–2016 the book closely examines projects such as Yawuru/Bardi dancer and choreographer Dalisa Pigram’s solo Gudirr Gudirr (2013) and the multimedia work Cut the Sky (2015). Dance in Contested Land reveals how emergent intercultural dramaturgies can mediate dance and land to revision and reorientate kinetics, emotion, and responsibilities through sites of Indigenous resurgence and experimentation.
Dance Legacies of Scotland: The True Glen Orchy Kick
by Mats Melin Jennifer SchoonoverDance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices. Mats Melin and Jennifer Schoonover explore the historical references describing percussive dancing to illustrate how widespread the practice was, giving some glimpses of what it looked and sounded like. The authors also explain what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from Scottish dancing practices. Their research draws together fieldwork, references from historical sources in English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic, and insights drawn from the authors’ practical knowledge of dances. They portray the complex network of dance dialects that existed in parallel across Scotland, and share how remnants of this vibrant tradition have endured in Scotland and the Scottish diaspora to the present day. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Dance and Music and its relationship to the history and culture of Scotland.
Dance Lexicon in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: A Corpus Based Approach (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
by Fabio CiambellaThis book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama. Besides considering not only the Shakespearean canon but also the Bard’s contemporaries (e.g., dramatists as John Marston and Ben Jonson among the most refined Renaissance dance aficionados), the originality of this volume is highlighted in both its methodology and structure. As far as methods of analysis are concerned, corpora such as the VEP Early Modern Drama collection and EEBO, and corpus analysis tools such as #LancsBox are used in order to offer the widest range of examples possible from early modern plays and provide co-textual references for each dance. Examples from Renaissance playwrights are fundamental for the analysis of connotative meanings of the dances listed and their performative, poetic and metaphoric role in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama. This study will be of great interest to Renaissance researchers, lexicographers and dance historians.
Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance
by Janet Lynn RosemanDance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these intimate interviews, dance critic Janet Lynn Roseman probes the heart of dance: * The creative process * The role of dream and rituals * The interplay between dancer and audience * The spiritual aspects of performance These dance masters offer rare insights into the internal world of the artist as they reveal their philosophies on dance training, discuss their mentors, and speak candidly about the artistic process of dance-making and how it actually feels to dance.
Dance, Modernity and Culture
by Helen ThomasFirst published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History
by Ray MillerDance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dance, and Cultural History.
Dance Pedagogy
by Amanda ClarkDance Pedagogy is a comprehensive resource designed for dance students and teaching artists to develop skills and strategies in the multifaceted practice of teaching dance.This invaluable resource features essential components and considerations necessary for the dance teacher in any setting, including the private and community sector, university setting, and professional venues. Five distinct units provide insight into the paradigm, learning process, class environment factors, planning, and delivery of the dance class in a broad context through the use of examples within the dance forms of ballet, jazz, modern, tap, and hip-hop. Readers intently explore cognitive and motor learning, strategies for developing curricula and lesson plans, and methods of delivering material to students. Basic principles of anatomy, understanding student behavior and participation, the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (IDEA), music concepts for the dancer, injury prevention, and classroom management are included to provide a well-rounded approach to the many challenges faced in the classroom.Dance Pedagogy provides the most holistic approach available in the art of teaching dance and is a core textbook for academic courses related to Dance Teaching Methods as well as an invaluable handbook for practicing dance teachers.
Dance, Place, and Poetics: Site-specific Performance as a Portal to Knowing (Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences)
by Celeste Nazeli SnowberThis book explores the relationship between the body, ecology, place, and site-specific performance. The book is situated within arts-based research, particularly within embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry. It explores a theoretical foundation for integration of these areas, primarily to share the lived experiences, poetry and dance which have come out of decades of sharing site-specific performances.
Dance Practices as Research: Approaches to the Safeguarding and Transmission of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance (Heritage Studies)
by Vicky KämpfeThis book contributes to the growing scientific literature on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ – determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission – by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance. By exploring the potential of the ‘intangible materiality’ of dance practice the book argues that implementing the concept of a ‘performative dance-archive’ creates a new analytic field: research in praxis. The concept of the ‘performative dance-archive’ draws out the potential for safeguarding and transmission of dance heritage, but also the challenges of the opposition between living heritage and the codifying of cultural inventories. This book uses the formal and contextual transformation of Argentine tango and German modern dance to discuss this ambiguity of intangible heritage and how the “performative dance-archive” creates a cognitive, empractical approach to determine, archive, and distribute dance knowledge. This is a timely methodological intervention in the context of the increasing importance of the intangible cultural heritage. It enables us to re-revise the concept of (im)materiality and the specific knowledges within cultural practice as a necessary fundamental category for research-processes and societal growth. This book is directed both to researchers in the field of intangible cultural heritage and to practitioners and researchers searching for new ways of investigating methods and perspectives to understand 'immaterial materialities'.