Stagecraft

Chance The Rapper Brings Blessings And Bangers To Apple Music Festival

Edit NME 03 Oct 2016

In association with Apple Music Festival It’s a messianic sight when Chance The Rapper elevates from a podium trapdoor in the centre of London’s Roundhouse; the crowd’s responding cheer is deafening. He goes in humble ... So this is very cool to be here ... He also riffs on the art of stagecraft, cheers everyone on as he teaches us a very specific shoulder-related dance move, and thanks random audience members individually for showing up ... ....

Barbican Theatre and Dance: January – June 2017 programme (Barbican Centre)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Oct 2016

(Source. Barbican Centre) ... The husband and wife team draws on contemporary dance, cinematography, puppetry, stagecraft and poetic storytelling to produce a theatrical gem that returns to the Barbican, having enchanted audiences across the globe ... First seen at the Barbican in 2009, the six-hour show combines brilliant ensemble acting, running from the cerebral to the raw, with astonishing stagecraft and an electric sense of immediacy ... UK....

Barbican announces new world-class work for 2017 (Barbican Centre)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Oct 2016

(Source. Barbican Centre). Barbican announces new world-class work for 2017. Basquiat at the Barbican. Basquiat. Boom for Real- the first ever large-scale Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition in the UK The Grime and the Glamour ... The husband and wife team draws on contemporary dance, cinematography, puppetry, stagecraft and poetic storytelling to produce a theatrical gem that returns to the Barbican, having enchanted audiences across the globe....

Lyric embarks on new Ring Cycle with eye-popping ‘Das Rheingold’

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 02 Oct 2016

There is something about the operas of Richard Wagner that brings out the master builder in directors and designers ... ‘DAS RHEINGOLD’. Recommended. When. Through Oct. 22. Where ... 20 N ... Info ... If the production’s visual grandeur, with all its phantasmagorical stagecraft, seems to get top billing here, it is because the eye candy often eclipses the demanding, expertly delivered vocal work, even as it clarifies and enhances the storytelling ... ....

Did Sia need to come to her own show at the Key Thursday?

Edit The Seattle Times 30 Sep 2016

Sia, the 40-year-old Australian singer known for hits such as “Chandelier” and “Cheap Thrills,” offered an intriguing evening of performance art at KeyArena Thursday, Sept. 29, but her dancers and stagecraft overshadowed her ... ....

The Future of 📝 on the Internet

Edit Slate 30 Sep 2016

That doesn’t mean the subjects being covered are any less important; only that journalism, online and off, happens in a more casual register ... And our casualness manifests in variety ... The end punctuation ... O ... Why? ... Think about the precisely calibrated, distinctive voices that now power online conversations, from Jon Bois’ woozy surrealism to Mark Lisanti’s ornate flourishes to Damon Young’s glorious, acidic experiments in ironic stagecraft....

'A View From the Bridge' at the Ahmanson sees this classic differently

Edit Daily Breeze 29 Sep 2016

Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove revives Arthur Miller's 1957 classic "A View From the Bridge" with a staging at once utterly realistic and utterly stylized. At the Ahmanson, when it works, it immerses our mind in the story and wrenches emotions out of us. When it doesn't work, it makes us step back and consciously observe the stagecraft ... ....

Opportunity Knox — but Goes Unanswered by this Middling Doc

Edit Houston Press 27 Sep 2016

A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. In the nine years since she was first accused of and jailed for murder — then exculpated, only to be retried and found guilty again, and finally absolved — Amanda Knox has learned a thing or two about performance ... Like the intro, the outro is flagrant stagecraft, but still more rewarding to parse than what’s in between ...   ... . Contact ... ....

Working outside the spotlight (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016

(Source. Northwestern State University of Louisiana). NATCHITOCHES - Tucked away in a corner office in the bowels of the A.A. Fredericks Fine Arts Center, Robert and Karn Richoux aren't in the spotlight. And they wouldn't have it any other way ... 'It's awesome, and it's going to be a great opportunity to give back to the university ... 'I help (Dr ... 'The following summer, I decided to take a stagecraft class (set building) ... 12-16 in the A. A....

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen – review

Edit The Guardian 26 Sep 2016

The singer’s candid memoir sheds light on his long-standing battle with depression and his drive to perform ... Read more. So began a lifetime of counselling and medication for a condition – one notes the recurring imagery of “darkness” in Springsteen’s prolific output – whose sure-fire cure has always been the dazzling stagecraft of heroic guitar poses, dramatic knee skids, athletic piano leaps and air-punching exuberance ... ....

Busy Bette Midler to appear on small screen, Broadway

Edit Star Advertiser 25 Sep 2016

Hawaii’s Bette Midler has a whirlwind agenda on multiple platforms in the coming months.. On TV, the Divine Miss M will be an 11th season mentor on NBC’s “The Voice.” She will guide competitors on Blake Shelton’s team. Other mentors are Charlie Puth, working with guest judge Alicia Keys; Sammy Hagar, grooming Adam Levine’s choices; and Joan Jett, aligning with Miley Cyrus’ picks ... STAGECRAFT ... 22 ... ....

Kalakshetra’s masterpiece

Edit The Hindu 22 Sep 2016

The world of performing arts turned upside down in the year 1953 when Rukmini Devi Arundale, inspired by the ballets of the Bolshoi theatre, decided to transform Valmiki’s mythological epic into a six-part dance drama. Teachers and students assembled under the great banyan tree in Kalakshetra were stunned ... Their chief was unfazed ... She was ecstatic ... The aim was not to exhibit stagecraft but to make the story come alive ... K ... P.T....

Kylie Back On Stage In Major New Melbourne Exhibition (Premier of Victoria)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Sep 2016

(Source. Premier of Victoria). The stunning stagecraft of one of Australia's most celebrated performers is on show at Arts Centre Melbourne in a new exhibition, Kylie on Stage ... The exhibition includes costumes and objects from Kylie tours dating back to 1989 ... Kylie on Stage is the first exhibition in over a decade to explore Kylie's stagecraft ... For further details, visit. www.artscentremelbourne.com.au ... Quotes attributable to Kylie Minogue....