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The Performance
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Author : Claire Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-03-16
The Performance written by Claire Thomas and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Fiction categories.
A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.
Performance
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Author : Claire Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-30
Performance written by Claire Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with categories.
'In this novel, the project of living is rendered with compassionate clarity.' NEW YORK TIMES'Thomas's imitation of wandering minds is flawless.' WASHINGTON POST'Claire Thomas has constructed, with graceful precision, a near-perfect wind-up music box of a novel.' ARTS HUBThe false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.The house lights lower.The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness.As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher, anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone. As the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.'How each woman interacts with and is altered by the play enacts beautifully the dialectical relationship between art and life.' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN'Written with passion, The Performance is a brave book: unafraid of confronting the dissonances of living in a modern Australia.' THE CONVERSATION'Witty, affecting, brilliantly wise and original.' Gail Jones, author of A GUIDE TO BERLIN, THE DEATH OF NOAH GLASS and OUR SHADOWS'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives.' Charlotte Wood, author of THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS and THE WEEKEND'Claire Thomas writes with a sure eye and knowing heart.' Tony Birch, author of BLOOD, GHOST RIVER and THE WHITE GIRL'I read from start to finish almost without looking up.' Clare Bowditch, author of YOUR OWN KIND OF GIRL'Read it as soon as you possibly can.' Emily Bitto, author of THE STRAYS'A tour de force. I can't recommend this too highly.' Patrick Gale, author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER and TAKE NOTHING WITH YOU'Quietly transformational' THE TIMES'Inventive and rule-breaking...deliciously clever and self-aware' Arts Hub'Richly rendered and perceptive' Publishers Weekly'This is a masterful work. Highly recommended.' Canberra Times'An intimate, compassionate, and unusual novel' Kirkus'Intimate, poignant, and darkly funny.' Sunday Times'Lively and i
The Performance Curve
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Author : Laura Watkins
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-30
The Performance Curve written by Laura Watkins and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022 Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond - to achieve our goals, rise to challenges and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance, while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a ground-breaking guide to success and happiness in both work and life. Rather than telling you what to do, this book allows you to come up with a roadmap for evolving your inner operating system (your mindsets, emotions and habits) for your unique circumstances. Crucially, this book explores both how you can improve individual performance and how to build relationships and cultures that bring out the best others. By interweaving individual and collective development, this approach is transformational for building leadership and organizational performance. The Performance Curve is a powerful combination of neuroscience, psychological research and practical guidance. These concepts are then brought to life through the stories of remarkable individuals from different sectors, including business, the arts, academia and not-for-profits. Laura Watkins and Vanessa Dietzel draw upon their vast experience and research as consultants and leadership coaches to deliver a ground-breaking guide to enhancing your performance in your life and career.
The Performance Economy
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Author : W. Stahel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-02-24
The Performance Economy written by W. Stahel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-24 with Business & Economics categories.
This updated and revised edition outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income. It shows what skills will be required to produce, sell and manage performance over time, and how manual jobs can contribute to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources.
Tactical Performance
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Author : Larry Bogad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-26
Tactical Performance written by Larry Bogad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-26 with Performing Arts categories.
Tactical Performance tells fun, mischievous stories of underdogs speaking mirth to power - through creative, targeted activist performance in the streets of cities around the world. This compelling, inspiring book also provides the first ever full-length practical and theoretical guide to this work. L.M.Bogad, one of the most prolific practitioners and scholars of this genre, shares the most effective non-violent tactics and theatrics employed by groups which have captured the public imagination in recent years. Tactical Performance explores carnivalesque protest in unique depth, looking at the possibilities for direct action and sometimes shocking confrontation with some of the most powerful institutions in the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in creative pranksterism and the global justice movement.
Singularities
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Author : Andre Lepecki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Singularities written by Andre Lepecki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with Art categories.
How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity. Exploring the works of Mette Ingvartsen, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, Jérôme Bel and others, Lepecki uses his concept of ‘singularity’—the resistance of categorization and aesthetic identification—to examine the function of dance and performance in political and artistic debate.
The Politics Of Performance
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Author : Baz Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
The Politics Of Performance written by Baz Kershaw and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Art categories.
Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice.
The Performance Of Healing
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Author : Carol Laderman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
The Performance Of Healing written by Carol Laderman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Social Science categories.
Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have both become involved in this important human undertaking. Exploring how the performance of healing transforms illness to health, initiate to ritual specialist, the authors show that performance does not merely refer to, but actually does something in the world. These essays on the performance of healing in societies ranging from rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis will touch readers' senses as well as their intellects.
The Performance Of Power
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Author : Sue-Ellen Case
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 1991-05-01
The Performance Of Power written by Sue-Ellen Case and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Performing Collaboration In Solo Performance
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Author : Chloé Déchery
language : en
Publisher: Intellect Books
Release Date : 2022-10-12
Performing Collaboration In Solo Performance written by Chloé Déchery and has been published by Intellect Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-12 with Art categories.
The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and collaborative labour in contemporary performance. This investigation is set in the context of a world more and more characterized by fragmentation, displacement and virtual communication and relationships. It addresses and playfully engages with the following questions: what is a collaborative body? Can a sole performer carry out a collaborative practice ? Can we stand in for others? What forms of “coming-together” might take place when distance remains between those who perform and those who spectate? The book contains the full-length version of the score from A Duet Without You, an original performance piece created between 2013 and 2015 by Chloé Déchery in collaboration with a range of artistic collaborators working inter- and cross-disciplinary, including Karen Christopher, Pedro Iñes, Simone Kenyon, Marty Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Deborah Pearson. Alongside the playtext, the book entails a collection of essays written by independent writers, artists and academics and dedicated to the politics of collaboration, ranging from performative responses and co-authored articles to in-depth theoretical essays. Primary readership will be those teaching, researching or studying in theatre and performance studies, visual arts, fine arts, art history, creative writing, poetry, philosophy or French literature. Will also be of interest to art school students and those with an interest in theatre.