Essays on Performing Arts

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Dance Inspiration: Misty Copeland

1 page / 636 words

Every dance season has a fresh start, with that come new opportunities to set new goals, push yourself, but most importantly to be inspired by others. Recently I moved studios, and have been pushed places I never knew I could reach. This year I have...

Ballet Dance Inspiration

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Two Ballet Stories: Ballet De La Nuit Versus La Sylphide

1 page / 546 words

Both Ballet de la Nuit and La Sylphide are beautiful productions. Each graceful in their own right. However in comparison they show grace in separate ways. Le Ballet de la Nuit, choreographed in 1653 by Jean-Baptiste Lully was strong and grand. Where La Sylphide was...

Ballet

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Black Swan Film by Darren Aronofsky: The Concept of Ballet

2 pages / 1133 words

The soul of an artist is the passion for the art. Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin, had opened the world of professional ballet to the silver screen. Modern society, while commonly holding ballet as...

Ballet Black Swan

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Literary Criticism of Ballet Royal De La Nuit by Jean-baptiste Boesset

1 page / 299 words

Le Ballet de la Nuit tells a story of the rising sun coming out to expel the darkness. In truth this is a greater metaphor for Louis the 14th to rise to power. Luis being the sun and upholding the french monarchy, allowing france to...

Ballet

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Adapting The Secret River for The Stage - Perspectives and Context

2 pages / 1107 words

The 16th – 20th centuries represented an era marked by European colonialism. This included the forcible occupation of foreign lands and the control of these lands through various mechanisms of power. In Australia, this expansion involved the deliberate separation of the colonialists form the natives...

Novel Theatre

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Analysis of Federico García Lorca's Play El Publico

4 pages / 1915 words

Federico Garcia Lorca titled his “un-performable” play that “belonged to the future” El Publico. This name could mean two things: el publico, the audience, or el publico, he who is public. Both meanings are two sides of the same coin, the beating heart of Lorca’s...

Literature Review Theatre

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Impossible Tasks in Seven Against Thebes and Agamemnon

3 pages / 1424 words

Introduction Aeschylus poses two impossible tasks for his heroes Eteocles in Seven Against Thebes and Agamemnon in Agamemnon. Their decisions in these moral dilemmas rest on the split between family and politics. Aeschylus presents a vision in which politics and family cannot be separated, leading...

Theatre

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A Symbolist Reading of Maurice Maeterlinck Pelleas and Melisande

6 pages / 2626 words

Modern Theatre is a revolutionary period in theatrical history in which different theorists and practitioners of theatre experimented with ideas that were hitherto unexplored. One of these movements, and pivotal to the anti-realistic theatre that revolted against realism and naturalism is symbolism. Symbolism was a...

Literature Review Theatre

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Brecht's Take on Theatre and Art

1 page / 1014 words

Writing in the Germany of the 1920s, Brecht shattered the then staple notions of dramatic theatre, with his propagation of the Epic theatre. In terms of play righting, his was a move away from the Isben model of the “well made” play; in terms of...

Literature Review Theatre

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Props Utilized by Actors and Actresses

1 page / 1814 words

Playwrights, unlike the authors of novels and other forms of literature, employ the use of production elements and stage designs in the development of their works. These additional aspects present within the creation of theatre grant playwrights with the opportunity to support and develop the...

Theatre

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The Values of The Theatre of Absurd in Waiting for Godot and The Bald Prima Donna

5 pages / 2338 words

Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot, and Ionesco, in The Bald Prima Donna, both embody the values associated with “Theatre of the Absurd”. This is achieved through their use of language, characterisation, and stage direction in order to portray the universe as being arbitrary and...

Theatre Waiting For Godot

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Theatre Or Cinema: "Equus" Versions Comparison

4 pages / 2009 words

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Literature Review Theatre

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Almost Nothing: Setting in Endgame

2 pages / 1045 words

The setting of Endgame is characteristic of a Beckett play; a decor reduced to the barest minimum. A naked stage, both a poetic symbol and a parody of traditional theater, with only two dust bins, a chair, and a backward painting to look at. High...

Literature Review Theatre

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An Essential Foundation: The Role Setting Plays in American Theatre

6 pages / 2621 words

For the sake of the audience, a theatre production relies on a well-designed and thematically relevant setting. This is because a setting is responsible for designating the audience in a particular time and place, in addition to creating a specific social or political environment. In...

Literature Review Theatre

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Theater and Acting in The Atonement and The Go-between

5 pages / 2390 words

Theater and acting fundamentally allow people to become something else- to transcend the bounds of their identities and present, or be presented with, a different reality. The process of writing, a theme particularly prominent in ‘Atonement’, is arguably comparable to acting- they both permit a...

Acting Atonement Theatre

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Presence in Performance: Questions of Identity

8 pages / 3831 words

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Theatre