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The performing arts in Hong Kong is venue so critical? /Ho, Wing-ip. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-63)
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Commercial music for the classical trumpeterYeagley, Jeremy R. 17 June 2015 (has links)
<p> The modern trumpet performer will be called upon to perform many different styles during their career. One of the ways a classical trumpet student can learn to play different styles is through performing in as many ensembles as their school offers and playing solos written in the vein of third stream music. One of these solos is Alfred Reed's Ode for Trumpet. This work allows the performer to experiment with jazz sounds and style without the worry of improvisation. To successfully perform this work one must have a proper sound concept, style, and the ability to tastefully embellish the melody. </p><p> The methodologies that will be used in this project report are performance practice, theoretical and analytical, and narratology. The performance practice methodology will be used to describe how to perform a work in the third stream of music. The theoretical and analytical methodology will be used to show why certain embellishments work harmonically and why the piece is considered third stream music. Finally, the short biographies of Alfred Reed and Don Jacoby will fall under the narratology methodology. </p><p> The purpose of this project report is to investigate how to properly and successfully perform trumpet works in the third stream genre and how they relate to the needs of the everyday professional trumpet player. It will cover sound concepts, style, and embellishments that will help guide a performer to their own voice in this music. The ability to change tonal colors, swing, and use extended techniques will be required of the player in various musical settings from playing in pops orchestras to Broadway style musicals to playing in a big band. These topics are important for every trumpet player, specifically classical trumpeters, to learn because they will be required to be knowledgeable and have mastered these skills to have success as a professional trumpeter. </p>
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Artists' material practices : the ideology of funding and support for independent performing artistsBonin-Rodriguez, Paul 10 August 2011 (has links)
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Theatrical Spaces as Platforms for Resistance and Revolt| The History of St. Croix and Its Present-Day Predicament through the Lens of the Play AntimanPaley, Sky Matthew Riel 28 August 2018 (has links)
<p> This thesis explores the ways in which Caucasian theatre makers can become more effective educators and directors in diverse student populations. By drawing attention to their “whiteness” and overcoming the fear of being implicated in the subjugation of these student populations, Caucasian theatre makers can instead embrace this implication and thereby transform classrooms and theatrical spaces from static appreciations of sovereignty and beauty, into platforms for resistance and revolt. In this thesis, I interrogate my own process in the direction of my multi-actor, undergraduate student production that was borne of the journey of the creation of my solo play entitled <i> ANTIMAN</i>. In this play, I implicate my family and our own racism and naiveté and the many challenges I faced in telling a story that explores such controversial subject matters as racism, antiblackness, colonialism, colonization, and settler-indigenous relations from my own white, male, heterosexual orientation. It is my hope that through this examination of both my failures and successes in this process of creating and directing <i> ANTIMAN</i>, in concert with the history of St. Croix, that I will articulate the present-day predicament of St. Croix in a manner that creates a space for discourse, resistance, and change.</p><p>
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In The Telling| Theatrical Devising Practice as Performance PedagogyHunicutt, Julie 26 April 2018 (has links)
<p> A detailed account and analysis of a six week theatrical devising workshop and culminating performance event which occurred in March and April of 2017 in the Theatre Arts Department at California State University, Long Beach. <i> In The Telling</i> was an independent project that utilized movement-based ensemble practice and improvisation techniques to develop text and movement into an immersive theatrical storytelling event. Through the synthesis of contemporary theatre making practice and traditional rehearsal techniques, a diverse group of student participants collaborated to create an original work based on personal narrative and the theme of “change”. </p><p> Rooted in a broader discussion regarding the ideal foundational elements for contemporary performance training, this project report poses the question: how can performance educators train the next generation of theater makers to excel at creating vibrant, inclusive and innovative work? The <i> In The Telling</i> project posits that theatrical devising practice as performance pedagogy is one approach.</p><p>
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The Terrorist and the WhoreSabbagh, Kahlil G. 05 March 2016 (has links)
<p> <i>The Terrorist and the Whore</i> is a two-person musical theater composition written as an unfinished yet retrospective performance document of the relationship of Kahlil Sabbagh and Ginger Smith from 2002 to 2015. The purpose of this project is to submit six songs from the musical that challenge two stereotypes, gender stereotyping and ethnic typecasting, while lending insight into the process of creating and telling a story and composing music. The six musical pieces, "Each Other," "Three Little Minutes," "That Crazy Moon," "It's Like," "Side Job," "I Don't like You," are presented through a score and electronically produced soundtrack and are analyzed in both a theoretical sense as well as for background informational purposes. It is through the lens of the characters that they discover, through music, the deep internal dynamics of a relationship.</p>
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Listening to the Dancing Body| Understanding the Dancing Body as Performative Agent within the Choreographic ProcessDavidson, Julia Rose 16 April 2016 (has links)
<p> The performativity of dance relies on the the power that different dance practices and choreographies have to shape culture, “making and unmaking” identities by “molding” the moving body (Franko, 2012). While theorists have connected dance technique and instruction to the perpetuation of larger cultural and historical ideologies, few methods yet have attempted a critical study of how performative impact is connected to a dancer’s own embodied experience. </p><p> Working from an understanding of embodied experience as central to the performative impact of dance, my research examines the dancing body’s role in constructing its own performativity. I begin with an analysis of how choreography “does” performativity, looking at historical changes in dance theory over time that have led to the imperative to examine agency specifically in relation to individually experienced embodiment. Current scholarship on the status of the 21st century contemporary dancer recognizes this need to study individual embodiment; dancers are creative agents within the choreographic process, able to alter the performative impact of a piece on the basis of how they learn or embody the movement. In order to substantiate this understanding of the dancing body’s agency, my research culminates in an interview project that includes dancers’ voices and lived experiences together with scholarship that prescribes agency and performativity to the moving body. Tracking a group of dancers through the process of learning new choreography, I attempt a method of understanding the moving body itself as communicative agent. The philosophical field of phenomenology supports such an understanding, viewing the body as having its own consciousness and perspective. In addition to phenomenology, I use critical ethnography and oral history practices to construct a reflexive interview process and affect theory to conduct a deep analysis of the dancers’ descriptions. Affect, being defined as those intensities, feelings and forces at the base of personal experience and social patterns, offers a way of comprehending dancers’ felt sense of embodiment from their own perspective. </p><p> An examination of affect within the dancers’ descriptions shows how the dancers’ linguistic moves parallel their diverse kinesthetic experiences of learning movement. The dancers’ heightened kinesthetic awareness throughout the process of learning choreography demonstrates how they experience their bodies in a different phenomenological way and ultimately how they enact performative impact through their very processes of embodiment. The resulting interviews, transcriptions and discussion in this project support practice-based research, in the form of phenomenologically-centered and analyzed interviews, as a way to include dancers’ embodied experiences in studies of the dancing body’s performativity. </p><p> Reference: Franko, Mark. "Dance and the Political: States of Exception." Dance. Ed. André Lepecki. London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2012. 145-48. Print.</p>
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Advancing toward accessibility| Disability accommodation in the theatreBryson, Caitlin E. 06 April 2016 (has links)
<p> This thesis discusses the need for and implementation of increased theatrical accommodation for patrons with disabilities. It begins by discussing the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act as they relate to theatres. Accommodations that go beyond the bare minimum required by law are discussed, including open and closed captioning, American Sign Language interpretation, audio description, and sensory-friendly performances. </p><p> The thesis gives evidence in the form of an anecdotal analysis of American Sign Language and captioned performances in the CSULB Theatre Arts Department. Each method is then evaluated for potential implementation in the Theatre Arts Department, based on its feasibility and impact given the population served by the Department. Finally, the thesis makes recommendations regarding which methods should be implemented and what the best processes would be for doing so.</p>
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What's in a name? A study of the correlation between donor giving trends and donor recognitionBook, Sean E. 06 April 2016 (has links)
<p> This project seeks to identify the impact of donor recognition practices upon acquisition and retention of individual donors within the Southern California theatre industry as a shift occurs in philanthropy trending away from corporate to individual gifts. </p><p> Drawing upon interviews with development professionals, cost and benefit analysis, and investigation of past donations, this project determines the effectiveness of current donor recognition structures that are commonly implemented without constant analysis of their performance. The objective of gathering practical data and understanding how and what motivates the average theatre donor, will determine future donor recognition approaches that can be implemented within the Theatre Arts Department. Additionally, the results of this study will inform the implementation of a donor wall for the CSULB Theatre Arts Department</p>
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Challenging what we know with The Last Days of Judas Iscariot| Examining the realitySiegel, Elisheva S. 05 May 2016 (has links)
<p>The following report is on the point of view, conceptualization, and evolution in its final execution of the lighting design by Elisheva S. Siegel for California State University, Long Beach Theatre Department?s 2015 University Player?s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis. It is submitted in partial fulfillment for completion of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Lighting Design.
I believe that the core of this story is about challenging what we know is to be true. Furthermore, to physicalize the break down of these philosophical walls throughout the court proceedings against Judas Iscariot, a grid of severe lighting angles was employed. This grid evolved from extreme isolation to a blur as these black and white lines of moral principles becomes grey. Other visual metaphors include personifying Judas? despair, a contrasting atmosphere for the Past, and propelling into another dimension during Pilate?s testimony.
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