...infringement. Even though we will have the assurance from Mr. Leguizamo himself in that he controls the rights we need to produce the play, Team Awesome trusts no one and can easily fall into a false sense of security. Better safe than sorry! 2- Will you need actors? Dancers? Or both? If so what performers-related unions will you have to deal with? Provide some examples of rules and regulations the union dictates. Since we are using the one-man show “Ghetto Klown” all we would need is one actor. The Actors' Equity Association (AEA) is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or through-storyline (vaudeville, cabarets, circuses) may be represented by AGVA. As of 2010, Equity represented over 49,000 theatre artists and stage managers. Equity requires that its members, as well as employers, live up to their obligations under Equity Agreements. There are certain rules of conduct which all members are expected to observe as professionals, for the dignity of the acting profession and the welfare of all their fellow performers....
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...about business presentations and the impact of visual and on-stage performances of senior managers and CEOs when they are giving presentations. What does the article discuss? It explains that life is becoming increasingly theatrical and visual in character. These days, more and more theatrical practices are being used by corporate leaders for creating strong and effective performances. The article explains that ‘stage-managed’ and real-life management presentations are treated as important devices for representing the organization and for managing the impressions of targeted audiences The publicity of such events: * Increases participants’ efforts to engage in theatrical behavior * Increases participants’ attention in big corporate events such as annual general meetings (AGMs) * Increases the effectiveness of the messages delivered in these events in a theatrical manner * Importance of theatrical-style presentations These presentations target important people for the organization: shareholders and public stakeholders, at employees, and at financial journalists and analysts; All these are important audiences in annual press conferences and analyst meetings. Many companies spend big amounts of money on such events. Importance of theatrical-style presentations: Leading financial analysts use such meetings as a source of important qualitative information this kind of info cannot be obtained via other channels of communication Influential journalists and thousands...
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...choruses did not sing, as to the choruses we have today do. The greek performers did not display any act of violence so that what the choruses did. 3. Why should film and theater companies analyze information about the likes, dislikes, and habits of potential audience members? The reason why they should do this is because, if there is anything majorly wrong then the next time there is a theatrical performance those people who were offended or disliked the performance will not attend the next, and leave a bad review. So it is...
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...The power of Cirque du Soleil IT usage Cirque du Soleil is the largest theatrical producer in the world. They capitalize the advantage of implementing information technology in their business model. Surprisingly, they implement information technology in almost every part of their touring show life cycle that people do not imagine. In creation and diffusion process, information technology nurture and enhance the operation like scenography, choreography, and ticket sale. The development of intranet allow the employee to share their discoveries, which can changes their business strategy. This enable Cirque du Soleil’s internal communication to become more efficient and effective. On the other hand, it also brings value to the external communication. Consumers can understand this company’s strategies and information easily. At the same time, the company can gain information about customer’s preference. The interaction between two parties have significantly increase. In design and logistic process, information technology helped to save and transfer the documents about making hat, wigs and building their infrastructure. Performing artist to now able to do their own make- up without hiring a make-up artist. Moreover, the documents is very important to the architecture building of the shows. These functions allow Cirque du Soleil to save their cost and time, At the same time, it reduces information complexity through standardization. The performance and skills level of the performance...
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...ABSTRACT Shards of Memories, Fragments of Sorrows: Mothertongue Transforming Spaces Occupied by Women in South Africa through Theatre This paper sets out to explore how processes of theatre making employed by The Mothertongue project, provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Mothertongue works from the premise that the development and subsequent performance of stories in theatrical processes affords women the opportunity to re-write and remap their personal narratives and in so doing insert their voices into the landscape of South African Theatre. In an attempt to redress the gender imbalances and androcentricism prevalent in post-apartheid theatre, this paper speaks to the relationship between theatre, liminality and communitas. I am interested in unpacking how collaborative processes of theatre-making provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Remapping in this instance refers to processes of transforming lived experience through story. I address how, through engaging in ritual activities that are central to the stories performed, actors, audiences and the owners of the source stories are invited to physically participate in remapping and transforming lived experience. Linked to this is the choice of form(s) and how this affects or impacts on the performed stories as well as on the construction of performed rituals and ultimately on the processes of remapping personal narratives. I focus specifically on Mothertongue’s 2004...
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...their career can get very stale. Choreographers have to love their job or it is not worth the time and effort they put into it. Choreographers create original routines for individual or group performers. According to Portland Ballet Academy choreographers sometime specialize in one dance style. They also use a variety of styles for one or multiple dance routines. Most all choreographers create routines for dancers to perform at recitals or at competitions. Choreographers usually start their careers as dancers. While they are dancers, they study for years and learn movements and positions of various types of dance. Each dance has its own vocabulary, style, and movement. The...
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...Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) by Thomas F. DeFrantz Alvin Ailey, the founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1958-), galvanized and stabilized an African American presence in theatrical dance. An outstanding performer, choreographer, company director, and mentor to scores of dance artists, Ailey oversaw the growth of his small, pick-up group of seven dancers into a large, carefully managed, internationally-renowned enterprise including several ensembles of dancers and a thriving school in New York City housed in the largest building devoted to dance in the United States. Along the way, Ailey changed the landscape of modern dance by developing new audiences for its performance through a consistent combination of exceptional artistry and wellcoordinated community outreach programs. In all, Ailey invigorated the art of dance with his distinctive creative imagination, his “blood memories” of cultural formations he witnessed as a child-- including the jook joint and the black church --and the strong survivalist ethic he learned as an African American man born in the depression-era South. Emergence into Dance Born in Rogers, Texas, the only child of workingclass parents who separated when he was two, Ailey moved with his mother to Los Angeles in 1942. Shy from his itinerant Texas life, Ailey reluctantly turned to dance when a high-school classmate introduced him to Lester Horton's Hollywood studio in 1949. In dance, he found the terms of self-expression that high school athletics...
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...the focal occasions in the way of life of the Democratic political party. Of course every beginning has its end, but by 1890 minstrelsy had shaped a little part of American excitement. Blackface minstrelsy was the first particularly US showy structure. In the 1830s and 1840s, it was at the ascent's center of a US music industry, and for a very long while it gave the lens through which the white US saw the clack people of the US. From one perspective, it had solid views; on the other, it managed white Americans a particular and wide attention to what a few whites considered huge parts of dark American society to be. Minstrel shows where massively popular before slavery was abolished. Fredrick Douglass, an abolitionist, believed that the performers themselves were dirty and cruel. He had an undeniable hate for them. Granted that the cruel portrayal of the black man in a theater setting had begun as far back as 1604, minstrel shows had begun much later. By the late 18th century, the characters of blackface had made their...
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...Name: Aunso, Jemimah Lea, S. Course and year: BSED 1st 1.What is dance? Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolicvalue, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture.[nb 1] Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period orplace of origin. An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of theatrical andparticipatory dance,[4] although these two categories are not always completely separate; both may have special functions, whether social,ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, or sacred/liturgical. Others disciplines of human movement are sometimes said to have a dance-like quality, including martial arts, gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming and many other forms of athletics. 2. What are the types/kinds of dances? Types of Dance - Categories Here are some of the most popular dance categories and types: Ballroom Dances These dances started appearing first in Italy, during the early years of Renaissance. Popularity of this kind of entertainment quickly swept over the Europe, United States and the World. Although many other simpler and more easily preformed types of dances caused the ballroom dances to lose some of their influence, modern worldwide dancing audience started resurrecting these immortal dances in ever increasing pace...
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...bamboo poles. The Singkil, alluding to the metallic anklets which make tinkling sounds worn by the people of Mindanao, is performed during celebrations such as weddings, or other festive occasions. Some have small bells attached to the ankle, also used to keep time and rhythm of the dance. The key is for the performer to step skilfully and gracefully in and out of the clashing bamboo poles. Usually she carries a fan or a pair of fans with which she artfully creating gestures. Originally, these gestures were done by hands and fingers, like the “Pangalay style”, or with colourful silk handkerchiefs. Sinkil, a Moslem bamboo dance is one of the most popularly performed dances here and abroad. Danced for royalties and their attendants, it tells the story of Gandigan, who while walking in the forest is caught in an earthquake caused by the “Diwatas” or Fairies. Amidst shaking trees and falling rocks she manages to avoid stepping on these by skipping nimbly from one place to another. Singkil is found in the repertoire of all Filipino Dance Troupes. There are many interpretation of this dance. In 1958, the “Bayanihan” started with a simple and has since developed into a theatrical and stylized spectacle to the point of it becoming a signature piece for the dance...
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...HISTORY INSTRUCTOR: THAR 281 Fall 2013 Exam #1 Review What is Theatre/ The Origins of Theatre: 1. Define “theatron” the seeking place 2. List the specific areas of theatre: Performer, spectator, text, visual elements, spectators 3. What are the three types of playing spaces discussed in class? a. Proscenium b. Arena c. Thrust 4. What are the three areas of design discussed in class? What are the purposes of each? 5. What are the two most ESSENTIAL elements of theatre? Audience and performers 6. Performances developed in the moment of performance (without a formal written text) are known as 7. Define and cite examples of ritual. Ritual - the acting out of an established prescribed procedure. Example: aggie ring dunk, midnight yell, Thanksgiving 8. Define and cite examples of ceremony. -Ceremony- formal religious or social occasion, usually led by a designated authority figure -Examples: Wedding, funerals, church ( pastor has to keep the audience engaged), music 9. What is the primary distinction between ritual and ceremony? Ceremony is led by an authoritative figure 10. Define efficacious: done with expecting results 11. Define methexis: Group sharing 12. It is commonly accepted that theatre developed through: myth, ceremony, and ritual 13. Examples of theatrical performance can be seen in everyday life through People telling crazy stories about what happened to them and acting them out with hand signals etc. -Imitation, role playing,...
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...Sachiyo Ito and Dance Japan’s discussion and performance was especially enlightening. Sachiyo Ito and Company was founded in 1981, and is a non-profit organization devoted to establish a link between East and West though expressive and aesthetic performances. Sadly, I have never experienced a Japanese dance performance before, or any dance performance as authentic as Sachiyo Ito and Company presented. Kabuki developed its unique characteristics in 1603, and was founded by a female, Izumo Okuni. It has been a pleasure enjoyed by the people of Japan for just about 400 years. Kabuki is a category of Japanese musical that incorporates dancing, music, and acting. As explained by Sachiyo Ito, the word Kabuki can be broken down in the Japanese language, “ka” meaning to “music” or “song”, “bu” meaning “dance”, and “ki” meaning “acting skill”. Therefore, Kabuki denotes the skill of song dance and acting. All three of these elements were combined to produce Kabuki theatrical performance. Although, it became applied in a more limited way—to represent a distinct type of Japanese performance. Originally an art performed by women, and passed down from generation to generation. Then, in 1629 the Tokugawa shogunate banned women from Kabuki performance, in an attempt to preserve social integrity. The shogunate military government perceived the female performances as being too sensual and risqué, causing chaos amongst the audience. After that, young men in their teens were to perform the...
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...was to build a Metropolitan Opera House, but due to the economy of the time it failed. He, then, decided to build an entire complex of buildings that were so superior it would attract many commercial tenants. He searched for a commercial partner to help in this endeavor and he found it in a large company of the time known as Radio Corporation of America or better known today as RCA. Along the way, Rockefeller and RCA found a man named S.L. Rothafel who was a theatrical genius of the time. Together, Rockefeller, RCA, and Rothafel came up with an idea of a theater like no other that was the first project completed in the complex. They designed it as a palace for the people. A palace of beauty, offering high quality entertainment at prices ordinary people could afford. They named it Radio City Hall. Donald Deskey was the interior designer. He designed more than thirty spaces including eight lounges and smoking rooms. Each had a general theme which was a stunning tribute to human achievement in art, science and industry. It was considered a masterpiece of American modernist design. A reporter said, “ It has been said of the new music hall that it needs no performers”. Remaining as the largest indoor theater in the world, it’s auditorium measures 160...
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...Jim Crow The term Jim Crow was used as a reference to segregation laws hat came about at the end of the reconstruction and came to an end in 1877 and continued until the 1960's. According to diction dictionary.reference.Jim Crow is defined as a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against blacks, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment. The term Jim Crow was thought to have originated around 1830 from a white minstrel show performer named Thomas Rice put black material on his face and performed a jig singing “Jump Jim Crow.” The character was created from a crippled, elderly black man singing and dancing. People say that Jim Crow owned a slave that gave inspiration for the act. The skit was incorporated into the act and then became a part of the minstrel scene in America. (1), (2), (3) Thomas Rice was one of the first performers to wear blackface makeup in a song and dance routine that turned out to be a success and took him to places like Louisville to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and to New York in 1832. Jim Crow was later a stock character in minstrel shows with Jim Dandy and Zip Coon. His blackface characters were Sambos, Coons, and Dandies. White audiences were open to portrayals of blacks as singing, dancing, grinning fools. Around 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used to refer to blacks, althought not to be as offensive as nigger, but close to coon or darkie. Minstrel shows clearly helped the spread of Jim Crow as...
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...musculoskeletal injuries. This study focused specifically on modern dance. The subjects in this study consisted of a total of forty-two dancers from the senior and junior companies of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Each company participant group comprised of equal amounts of females and males. The study took place over a five-year period. The frequency of new injuries dropped from seventy-nine percent to seventeen percent, the amount of lost work days decreased from two hundred thirty to fifty-eight days, the occurrence of minor injuries lowered from seventy-four percent to seven percent, the occurrence of moderate injuries fluctuated randomly, and the occurrence of severe injuries maintained a relatively constant from two percent to five percent. Though it was very effective, the study did not run perfectly. Some limitations included a lack of control group with no intervention and the small sample size. Overall, the comprehensive management program proved to be very beneficial to the modern dance...
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