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Making solo performanceFocusing specifically on solo making and performing, this unique and exciting text allows the experts to speak for themselves. In interviews with Misri Dey, six recognised solo performers working across a range of performance genres – including theatre, dance, live and performance art, site-specific performance, music video and film – provide insightful and practical strategies for creative making and performing processes. Interviewees include Bryony Kimmings, Tim Etchells, Bobby Baker, Mike Pearson, Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock.
Engaging and accessible, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Performance and Acting, scholars, lecturers and performance practitioners. It will also appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Women's Studies, Creative Writing and the Visual Arts. [editor summary]
La formation continue pour professeurs en arts du cirque : concevoir, animer et évaluer« Cette publication est née de la volonté de la FEDEC de doter les directeurs d’école et directeurs pédagogiques d’un outil leur permettant de mettre à disposition de leurs professeurs une offre de formation et de développement professionnel en phase avec les évolutions du métier de professeur en école de cirque professionnelle et adaptable à son contexte local, national ou international.
La première partie de ce guide rappelle le contexte et les raisons de sa création. Elle donne par des clés de compréhension des enjeux liés à ce guide et précisera qui sont les principaux destinataires de cet outil. La seconde partie définit les fondements pédagogiques des sessions de formation INTENTS, véritables laboratoires d’expérimentation d’environnements de formation et qui ont vocation à servir de référence pour les formations à venir. La troisième partie, enfin, présente les propositions relatives à la conception, l’animation et l’évaluation des dispositifs de formation. Ces propositions concernent les deux grandes catégories de dispositifs (formations « intra », au sein des écoles d’une part, et formations « inter », regroupant des enseignants d’écoles différentes, à un niveau régional, national ou international d’autre part). » [résumé de l'éditeur]
Support and alignment : in search of balance : sensation, development and creation in equilibristrics : pedagogical guide"It is on the basis of field observations and concrete pedagogical issues that several texts are suggested to deepen, explain or question the notions linked with balance, while giving the floor to those who have animated or participated in the training. While this book is not meant to describe the exercises involved in these practice times, their observation has made it possible to draw threads and to propose different tools that can be transferred to the pedagogical practices of each one. The two main parts of the manual are: building balance and developing a connection with balance. More than methods that impose rules or protocols, these sensitive approaches allow, at a given moment, to formalise the practices and to spread them. For all that, they go far beyond speech and writing and find their full realisation only when the body is in motion. "
The manual makes it possible to formalise the practices of the professionals of today and to disseminate them. The proposals are transferable from one apparatus to another and from one practice to another and allow to start a transversal reflection on aerial skills or, more generally, on the way in which the circus arts are constantly facing, the stakes and difficulties of vertical work, weight and gravity. [editor summary]
Making spaces safer : a guide to giving harassment the boot wherever you work, play, and gatherShawna Potter, singer for the band War On Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she’s turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up. The steps she outlines are realistic, practical, and actionable. With the addition of personal stories, case studies, sample policies, and no-nonsense advice like “How to Flirt without Being a Creep,” she shows why safer spaces are important, while making it easier to achieve them. Eschewing theory, she assumes the reader is already an ethical creature and jumps right in with candor, punk passion, and righteous anger to get the job done! [editor summary]
Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible.
The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class.
As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. [editor summary]
I am a body of landf poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undoo harm. Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love. [editor summary]
The art of collectivity : social circus and the cultural politics of a post-neoliberal visionAmidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion. Rejecting the radical individualism of the neoliberal era, many artistic projects promote collectivity and togetherness in navigating challenges and constructing shared futures.
The Art of Collectivity is about how one such creative social program deployed this approach in service of a post-neoliberal vision. Focusing on a national social circus initiative launched by a newly elected Ecuadorean government to help actualize its “citizens' revolution,” the book explores the intersection between global cultural politics, participatory arts, collective health, and social transformation. The authors include scholars and practitioners of community arts, humanities, social sciences, and health sciences from the Global North and Global South. Sensitive to hierarchical binaries such as research/practice, north/south, and art/science, they work together to provide a multifaceted analysis of the way cultural politics shape policy, pedagogy, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their socio-cultural and health-related effects.
The largest study of social circus to date, combining detailed quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, The Art of Collectivity is a timely contribution to the study of cultural policies, critical pedagogies, collective art-making, and community development. [editor summary]
Dispositifs sonores : corps, scènes, atmosphèresCet ouvrage résulte d’un constat aussi simple que déconcertant : alors que le son joue au théâtre un rôle généralement aussi important que le visuel, il est à peu près absent des travaux
critiques, historiques et théoriques. Et pourtant, cet univers sonore en est un très complexe et étonnant, et vaut la peine qu’on s’y attarde.
L’émergence de ce qu’il est aujourd’hui convenu d’appeler les études sonores en théâtre fait de l’auralité de la représentation – ce qu’on y entend et comment on l’entend – une question majeure au sein de la recherche universitaire qui se consacre aux arts vivants. Ce « tournant sonore » touche autant la conception du spectacle que sa représentation, sa réception que son archivage
L’ouvrage repose sur deux dimensions : d’abord, celle de la réflexion théorique, plus générale ; puis, celle de l’expérimentation, qui ancre progressivement la pensée dans une réalité sonore particulière. Les quatorze textes de théoriciens et d’artistes, en passant de l’abstraction des concepts au concret de leur réalisation, témoignent de la fluidité et de la diversité qui concernent autant les agencements dynamiques et mouvants appelés ici « dispositifs » que les réalités sonores qu’ils engendrent. [résumé de l'éditeur]
Applied anatomy of aerial arts : an illustrated guide to strength, flexibility, training, and injury preventionSpecifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who want to optimize their performance and train safely.
Using a biomechanical and movement-based approach, Emily Scherb, a physical therapist who specializes in the care, treatment, and education of circus performers—explains the anatomical rationale for progressions of learning and demonstrates simple movements to achieve the coordination, muscular control, strength, and fitness to hang with correct form, how to progress from hanging into a pull up, an inversion, and beyond with a strong center, precise muscle sequencing, and ease of movement.
Aerialists will learn how bones, joints, muscles, and soft tissues allow for specific movements and gain an appreciation for concepts of proximal stability.
This full-color illustrated guide lays a solid foundation for beginners and advanced students with a wealth of insights into their own performance as well as refreshers on fundamentals in warm ups and conditioning. It explains how to structure a training session, how to care for injuries, and best practices for basic self first aid. [editor summary]
Arts du cirque à l'école maternelle : avec Touminus la puceLes arts du cirque, dans les programmes de l’école, relèvent à la fois des activités physiqueset des activités artistiques. Les unités d’apprentissage présentées s’organisent autour des trois activités accessibles: jonglage, acrobatie, équilibre. Elles permettent de développer aussi bien les habiletés motrices (aller vers l’exploit : la difficulté, la maîtrise, la performance) que le jeu d’acteur (introduire un effet esthétique pour toucherle spectateur, le faire rêver, ou produire un effet comique pour le faire rire).
Le conte, dans lequel l’héroïne, Touminus la puce, s’initie avec l’aide de ses amis à la pratique des activités circassiennes, sert de support aux apprentissages, les enfants pouvant aisément s’identifier aux personnages de l’histoire et s’approprier leurs actions et leurs rôles respectifs.
Avec ce nouvel opus de l’équipe EPS des Bouches-du-Rhône, vous avez les clefs pour réussir vos séances d’arts du cirque en maternelle. [résumé de l'éditeur]
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