Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance

"As an art form, puppetry has enjoyed a significant expansion over the past twenty years. This can be seen both in terms of its popularity in mainstream theatre and in the amount of attention that it now receives from an academic audience. This increasedpresence in the practical and theoretical realms is also underlined by a diversification in the definition of puppetry itself, with the term now being used to cover everything from found or traditional 'performing objects' to super high-tech projections and constructions"--

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John Bell is Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. An active puppeteer with Great Small Works and Bread & Puppet Theater, as well as a theatre historian, his publications include American Puppet Modernism (2008) and Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects (2001).
Claudia Orenstein is Associate Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. Publications include The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation, and Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. She is a board member of UNIMA-USA and Associate Editor of Asian Theatre Journal.
Dassia N. Posner is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University. A theatre historian, dramaturg, and puppeteer, she is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Russian theatre, the history of directing, and puppetry and is Peer-Review Editor for Puppetry International. Recent dramaturgy includes Three Sisters and Russian Transport at Steppenwolf.

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• Con la collaborazione di: Dassia Posner (Editore), Dassia N. Posner (Editore), Orenstein Claudia (Editore), Posner Dassia N. (Editore), Claudia Orenstein (Editore), John Bell (Editore)
• Autori: John Posner Bell, Dassia N. Posner, Dassia N. Bell Posner, Dassia N. Orenstein Posner, Dassia N. (Northwestern University Posner
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 15.07.2014
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro
• EAN: 9780415705400
• ISBN: 978-0-415-70540-0
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Serie: Routledge Companions; Routledge Companions
• Categorie: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Industrial / commercial art & design, Performance Art, Theatre Direction & Production, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Theatre direction and production, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre, contemporary puppet performance analysis