Search results for "Performance studies"
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Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments
2018
Informed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute instruments from a broad, interdisciplinary approach, it represents a unique and significant contribution to research on Early Music performance, particularly performance on lute instruments. At a lute-centred level, this book challenges many preconceptions about tone production by addressing the motivations behind certain choices made in and embraced b…
Introduction: real animals on the stage
2018
This special issue explores the role particularly of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributions deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals, typologies of animals in the theatre, the hybridization of the drama with the circus, the zoo and the cinema, as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage. We seek here to focus on the changing historical fortunes of the four-footed actor and explore the ways that attitudes to the animal affect their dramatic representations and uses. In attempting to relate snapshots of acting animals from their earliest manifestation on the early modern stage, we co…
El Siglo de Oro español en la escena pública contemporánea. La Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (1986-2011)
2014
En el año 1986 comienza la andadura de la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC) y España cuenta por primera vez con una compañía estatal pública dedicada en exclusiva a la escenificación de las obras dramáticas clásicas. Desde aquel año hasta el presente, y pese al retraso secular respecto a países como Francia e Inglaterra, el trabajo modernizador de la CNTC a la hora de llevar los clásicos a las tablas ha constituido un auténtico revulsivo conceptual para la dramaturgia barroca en la época contemporánea. Este cambio de paradigma artístico y social que ha representado la Compañía a lo largo de las últimas décadas merecía un estudio en profundidad. Y a ello se dedica esta tesis doctora…
Petit essai d'analyse généalogique : 200 Motels de Frank Zappa (1971)
2018
International audience; Dans cet article, je me propose d'analyser le film" 200 Motels" (1971) de Frank Zappa à partir de deux généalogies. Tout d'abord, les spectacles et les formes de divertissements qui sont apparus en Amérique du Nord au 19e et au début du 20e siècle. Ensuite, le cinéma musical hollywoodien de 1929 à 1960. Après avoir sommairement présenté ces deux corpus, je m'efforcerai de penser le film de Zappa à l'aune de ces deux mondes et de certaines de leurs caractéristiques. Je conclurai par une réflexion à propos des méthodes d'analyses que l'on peut mobiliser pour aborder un film musical et le répertoire rock.
What Explains Governance Structure in Non-Profit and For-Profit Microfinance Institutions?
2009
This paper aims to explain the choice of board and CEO characteristics in microfinance institutions (MFI). Explanations are sought in substitution or complementarity between the characteristics, external governance variables, and financial performance and outreach performance to the poor. The data are from 290 MFIs in 61 countries, and the logit regressions methodology is employed. The board and CEO characteristics are board size, CEO-chairman duality, international directors, and female CEO. We find relationships among these variables, and also that the external governance variables ownership type (shareholder owned) and international initialization induce smaller board, less duality, more…