Circus Acts
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The Meaning Of The Circus
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-23
The Meaning Of The Circus written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Performing Arts categories.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights the experience of circus artists as their skills develop and mature into public performances that create aesthetic and emotional values in the modern economy of live spectacles. It scrutinizes the meaning that circus acts produce for the spectators and for the artists themselves who live this process from the inside. This is a book for those studying semiotics and wanting to see it applied to a real life milieu in accessible and passionate prose. The Meaning of the Circus is grounded on the personal experience of Professor Paul Bouissac as both a circus entrepreneur and a researcher with decades of primary material on the significance of past and contemporary circus acts. It is based on substantial accounts provided by many men and women who have agreed to share the challenges, joys, and anxieties of their life as artists. Personal and rigorous, it contributes to the hermeneutics of the circus arts by adding existential depth to the production and reception of their performances.
The Performers
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Author : Stuart Thayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Performers written by Stuart Thayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Circus categories.
This focuses on the history of circus acts from 1793 - 1860, with a brief mention of acts that rose in popularity after 1860. The subjects are arranged to mirror the typical sequence of acts in a circus ring.
Circus Acts
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Author : David Zini
language : en
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
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Circus Acts written by David Zini and has been published by Writers Republic LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Was your pocket "picked" during the Great Recession of 2008? Did you take a hit on your savings or retirement or maybe even lost your home? Ever wonder how that could happen? Ever thought about getting revenge on those who snatched your purse strings? Well, where our federal government failed to protect its citizens from such outright theft, Professor Kendrick Laberday is more than happy to take up the slack. In his unique and most deadly brand of justice, the disarmingly charming but violently sociopathic professor is intent on dispatching in a very public manner those who he believes played a part in stealing his money. The courtroom? Very public settings, as the point is to try these criminals in front of the good citizenry of our country. The judge and jury? Kendrick will be happy to handle those duties. The punishment? To say the least, unique and administered in a way that only the dark mind of Kendrick could configure. The thrills and chills of these strange high-wire acts can be found in only one circus. Welcome, all, to Professor Kendrick Laberday's circus of justice. Following the professor's deadly trail, which provides for more twists and turns than the Mississippi River, are Minneapolis Police Department investigators Mark Truitt and Sylvia "Sylkie" Maune. The detectives have no idea what they're in for as the case becomes more puzzling the deeper they dig, even, at times, swerving too close to home. More and more ugly facts about the self-described "ringmaster" bubble to the surface as the case deepens and push the investigators ever farther into the murky world of the professor's dark circus.
The Contemporary Circus
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Author : Ernest Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-10-10
The Contemporary Circus written by Ernest Albrecht and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
The fun, energy, and hard work integral to the exciting world of the circus is lovingly captured in The Contemporary Circus: Art of the Spectacular, an in depth look at the creative process of today's circuses. Through numerous personal interviews with directors, designers, composers and performers, author Ernest Albrecht provides a unique inside view of the journey through which the most innovative and exciting modern circuses are produced, from the director and production team to the performers, and from designing the circus to setting it to music. Case studies of specific productions by the Big Apple Circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, and Cirque du Soleil illuminate the artistic give-and-take necessary in such a collaborative process, proving the circus a true art form, one as artistic as theatre or dance. A variety of performers such as animal trainers, dancers, and clowns discuss their approach to their individual specialties, and the text concludes with an examination of the world's circuses and schools and their methods for training circus artists. A full photo spread of 30 beautiful photos will help inspire and enlighten artists and fans alike.
Circus As Multimodal Discourse
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-10-11
Circus As Multimodal Discourse written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's fifteen chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.
Contortion German Wheels And Other Mind Bending Circus Science
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Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2017-08
Contortion German Wheels And Other Mind Bending Circus Science written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Ever watch the circus and wonder, "how do they do that?" Find the answers in this book! Readers will learn about some of the most mind-bending circus acts, from contortionists to human pyramids, and the science that makes them possible. Short, simple activities help demonstrate the science for readers.
The Big Top On The Big Screen
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Author : Teresa Cutler-Broyles
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-01-10
The Big Top On The Big Screen written by Teresa Cutler-Broyles and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-10 with Social Science categories.
Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.
Circus Bodies
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Author : Peta Tait
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-16
Circus Bodies written by Peta Tait and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies. Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement. Adeptly locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of bodies and their identities, Circus Bodies explores this subject through a range of films such as Trapeze (1956) and Wings of Desire (1987) and Tait also examines live performances including: * the first trapeze performers: Léotard and the Hanlon Brothers * female celebrities; Azella, Sanyeah, black French aerialist LaLa, the infamous Leona Dare, and the female human cannonballs * twentieth-century gender benders; Barbette and Luisita Leers * the Codonas, Concellos, Gaonas, Vazquez and Pages troupes * imaginative aerial acts in Cirque de Soleil and Circus Oz productions. This book will prove an invaluable resource for all students and scholars interested in this fascinating field.
Circus Acts
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Circus Acts written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
101 Circus Games For Children
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Author : Paul Rooyackers
language : en
Publisher: Hunter House
Release Date : 2009
101 Circus Games For Children written by Paul Rooyackers and has been published by Hunter House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Games & Activities categories.
Presents instructions for 101 games, acts, and tricks inspired by the circus, categorized by four different age groups, with ideas for props and musical accompaniment.
