Category: Performing Arts

From early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Helen Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance. Every type of dance from social to traditional to clergy is included. Brennan takes care to explain the different styles and traditions that evolved from different parts of Ireland; which results in some lively discussions as people reminisce over old favorites. She also discusses how dance evolved to become such an important part of Ireland's culture and history. An appendix is offered to help explain the various steps involved in each style of d...
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On Screen Acting

By: Dmytryk, Edward, J. P.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Focal Pr : November 1984

Seller ID: 514064

ISBN-13: 9780240517391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In search of theater

By: Eric Bentley

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Vintage Books : January 1959

Seller ID: 336468

ISBN: B0007FTJ0A

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)

By: Grant, Gail

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1982

Seller ID: 468833

ISBN-13: 9780486218434

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." -- Dance MagazineTeacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, dance teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast -- even those who purchased the second edition. Extensive revision, expansion, and ...
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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)

By: Grant, Gail

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1982

Seller ID: 523255

ISBN-13: 9780486218434

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." -- Dance MagazineTeacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, dance teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast -- even those who purchased the second edition. Extensive revision, expansion, and ...
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Respect for Acting

By: Hagen, Uta

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Macmillan : September 1973

Seller ID: 567517

ISBN-13: 9780025473904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she teaches, and an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage, her book is the best substitute." --Publishers Weekly "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely, practical information by a superb craftswoman. crafts-woman. An illuminating discussion of the stan...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing

By: Jeff Allen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Alpha : January 1753

Seller ID: 127809

ISBN-13: 9780028643458

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

-- This book is the first to pitch the old way of providing dance instruction by means of complicated and incomplete step pattern illustrations in exchange for a new photo-intensive approach.-- The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Ballroom Dancing is the first book to acknowledge the changing image of ballroom dancing as a less formal, more mainstream social activity.-- Includes a bonus instructional CD with music for every type of dance.The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Ballroom Dancing is an illustration-intensive how-to book that introduces readers to all of the various forms of ballroom dan...
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Glamour Addiction: Inside the American Ballroom Dance Industry

By: Juliet E McMains

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press : November 2006

Seller ID: 342877

ISBN-13: 9780819567741

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the wake of the blockbuster television success of "Dancing with the Stars," competitive ballroom dance has become a subject of new fascination--and renewed scrutiny. Known by its practitioners as DanceSport, ballroom is a significant dance form and a fascinating cultural phenomenon. In this first in-depth study of the sport, dancer and dance historian Juliet McMains explores the "Glamour Machine" that drives the thriving industry, delving into both the pleasures and perils of its seductions. She further explores the broader social issues invoked in American DanceSport: representation of "La...
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The Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age

By: Maltin, Leonard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult : October 1997

Seller ID: 567937

ISBN-13: 9780525941835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The popular authority on movies, television, and video now tunes in to the Golden Age of Radio. This fascinating and long-overdue celebration of the way things were includes...
-- Behind the scenes stories about Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and many, many others
-- The history of radio soap operas, westerns, variety shows, comedies, and thrillers
-- Hundreds of revealing personal interviews with radio legends
-- More than 125 rare photographs and illustrations
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Raised on Radio

By: Nachman, Gerald

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pantheon : October 1998

Seller ID: 567938

ISBN-13: 9780375402876

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this fascinating and delightful book, Gerald Nachman traces the dramatic history of radio, which, in the late 1920s, exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment medium. Nachman anatomizes the many genres that radio deployed or invented -- from the soap opera to the quiz show, the sports broadcast to the sitcom -- and brings back to life all the great performers and programs, as well as the not-so-great and the not-great-at-all.A product of the radio years himself -- as a boy he did his homework to the sound of the Lone Ranger and Jack Benny -- Nachman combines his ...
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RULES OF ACTING, THE

By: Simkins, Michael

Price: $6.95

Publisher: EBURY PRESS

Seller ID: 560092

ISBN-13: 9780091951290

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials

By: Thudium, Laura

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Back Stage Books : April 1999

Seller ID: 348378

ISBN-13: 9780823088393

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.
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Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style

By: Vineberg, Steve

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books : May 1994

Seller ID: 568017

ISBN-13: 9780028726878

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a history of the style that has pervaded American acting for more than 50 years. The author appraises the fruits of Method training by the psychological truth and candour in the performances of such actors as Marlon Brando, Jason Robards, Rod Steiger and James Dean. He observes how the Method's third generation - Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Jack Nicholson, among others - brought a distinctive tone of hip disenchantment to films of the 1960s and 1970s. And he uses Dustin Hoffman's performance in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman to show how the Method has continued to evolve...
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Performing O'Neill: Conversations with Actors and Directors

By: Yvonne Shafer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : December 2000

Seller ID: 350890

ISBN-13: 9780312226268

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Performing O'Neill, Yvonne Shafer talks with the most important actors and directors who interpreted O'Neill in the 20th century: Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Fritz Weaver, James Earle Jones, Theresa Wright, Gloria Foster, Ted Mann, and Arvin Brown, to name just a few. Actors like Robards talk about their first encounters with the master and their interpretations of roles like Hickey in "The Iceman Cometh" and James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Directors talk about the challenges they face in bringing O'Neill's dark and compelling vision of American life to the stage and mak...
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Sondheim & Co

By: Zadan, Craig

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Harper & Row : January 1986

Seller ID: 567510

ISBN-13: 9780060156497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Performing Arts