96 résultats pour "theater"
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Theater - Theater.
gleichzeitig ablaufen konnte (Vorläufer für diese Form des revolutionären Agitproptheaters waren Wsewolod Mejerchold und Wladimir Majakowskij; politisches Theater). Zielwar es mithin, an die Gefühle des Betrachters zu appellieren, um die Massen zu bewegen. Demgegenüber wollte Mitte der zwanziger Jahre Bertolt Brechts episches Theatermit seiner Abkehr von den gängigen Inszenierungsstrategien die Einfühlung des Zuschauers gerade verhindern. Der Schauspieler war angehalten, die Rollenhaftigkeit sei...
- Deutsches Theater - Theater.
- Absurdes Theater - Theater.
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Theater
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The Art of Theater
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Theater at EpidaurusAncient Greek dramas were performed in open-air theaters like this one in Epidaurus, Greece, which was designed byPolyclitus the Younger in 350 bc. A festival of ancient Greek drama is still held in the summer in this 14,000-seat theater.Roger Wood/Corbis Fundamental to the theater experience is the act of seeing and being seen; in fact, the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron , meaning 'seeing place.' Throughout the history of world cultures, actors have used...
- Episches Theater - Theater.
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African Theater
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African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.
The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...
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African Theater
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African Theater, traditional, historical, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa south of the Sahara.
The period after World War II ended in 1945 led to the struggle for and achievement of independence in many African countries. The new nation-states were oftenestablished along colonial boundaries and power was handed over to a bourgeois class who had been educated in Europe. The epoch-making era of nationalismproduced a number of African playwrights who merged African theatrical traditions with European forms. These plays are still widely performed and read in many partsof the continent. Nigeri...
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Asian Theater
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Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
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- Theater der Grausamkeit - Theater.
- Theatergebäude - Theater.
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Drama - Theater.
Amphitryon ). Georg Büchner begründete mit Woyzeck die Tradition des sozial engagierten Dramas, die im Naturalismus aufgegriffen wurde, und schrieb mit Dantons Tod ein philosophisch-resignatives Revolutionsstück ersten Rangs. Der Expressionismus kultivierte das von August Strindberg verfeinerte Stationendrama. In den zwanziger Jahrenerlebte das Arbeitertheater als Form des Agitproptheaters in der Weimarer Republik seine Blüte, unter dessen Regisseuren vor allem Erwin Piscator herausragte, we...
- Dramentheorie - Theater.
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Bühnenbild - Theater.
Jahren von Bühnenbildnern wie Robert Edmond Jones, Jo Mielziner, Lee Simonson, Norman Bel Geddes und Boris Aronson aufgenommen. Bühnenbild wurde nun auch als eigenständiges Fach an Universitäten und Kunstschulen gelehrt. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg wurde Casper Neher für seine Arbeit am BerlinerEnsemble unter Bertolt Brecht weltberühmt. Seine antiillusionistisch-abstrahierenden Kulissen übten eine revolutionäre Wirkung aus. Von Brecht wiederum stammte derVersuch, die Bühnentechnik dem Publikum sichtba...
- Burgtheater - Theater.
- Schauspielkunst - Theater.
- Puppentheater - Theater.
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- Berliner Schaubühne - Theater.
- Komödie - Theater.
- Berliner Ensemble - Theater.
- Bochumer Schauspielhaus - Theater.
- Salzburger Festspiele - Theater.
- Bayerisches National Theater
- Münchner Kammerspiele - Theater.
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Chinese Music
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Classical Peking Opera
Of the many major forms of regional theater in China, Peking opera is by far the most famous.
World Music TourClick on the instruments to hear music from around the world.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. However, the Confucian beliefs about music were constantly eroded throughout Chinese history by a long tradition of popular entertainment music, favored both at thecourt and by the common folk. Although excluded from official ritual performances for several thousand years, Chinese women musicians and entertainers had a centraland formative role in this entertainment music as...
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- Commedia dell'Arte - Theater.
- Kasperltheater - Theater.
- Schultheater - Theater.
- Kabarett - Theater.
- Pantomime - Theater.
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- Pilobolus Dance Theater.
- American Ballet Theater.
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Acting
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Lee Strasberg
American acting teacher Lee Strasberg was best known for his association with the Actors Studio, of which he became the
artistic director in 1951.
truthfully felt those emotions at the moment they expressed them. Finding the true feeling in the proper place and time on stage, however, was a problem that Aristotleaddressed less well. He concluded that acting was an occupation for the gifted or insane. How to cross the artistic boundary beyond feigned emotions and flat imitation obsessed many Greek actors. In 315 BC the tragedian Polus carried the real ashes of his recently deceased son in an urn to stimulate a sense of genuine grief when h...
- Broadway Theaters - Theater.
- Augsburger Puppenkiste - Theater.
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Musical
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George Gershwin
American pianist, songwriter, and composer George Gershwin was one of the most important figures in popular song in
the 1920s and 1930s.
C Extravaganzas Another predecessor of musical comedy, the extravaganza, evolved soon after the American Civil War (1861-1865) from traditional English pantomime. Extravaganzaswere typically based on fairy tales and Mother Goose. They introduced some of the elements—songs, dances, and comedy combined with spectacular stage sets andeffects—that American musical comedy later became known for. The first and most famous extravaganza show was The Black Crook (1866), often described as America’s fi...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists.
Shakespeare’s reputation today is, however, based primarily on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin toappear in 1594, when the theaters reopened with the passing of the plague that had closed them for 21 months. In December of 1594 his play The Comedy of Errors was performed in London during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, one of the London law schools. In March of the following year he received payment for two playsthat had been per...
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William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare’s reputation today is, however, based primarily on the 38 plays that he wrote, modified, or collaborated on. Records of Shakespeare’s plays begin toappear in 1594, when the theaters reopened with the passing of the plague that had closed them for 21 months. In December of 1594 his play The Comedy of Errors was performed in London during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn, one of the London law schools. In March of the following year he received payment for two playsthat had been per...
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Japanese Music
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Shamisen Performance
The shamisen is a Japanese instrument with three strings.
utilizes six modes, or scales, of Chinese origin, all derived from two basic pentatonic (five-note) scales: ryo, D E-flat G A B-flat, plus F and C as auxiliary pitches; and ritsu, D F G A C, plus auxiliary pitches E-flat and B-flat. The meters in gagaku music are basically duple (in twos). IV DRAMATIC MUSIC Classical Nō Drama of JapanInspired both spiritually and artistically by Zen Buddhism, the Japanese n ō theater is composed of four main components:music (voices, instruments), choreogra...
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American Literature: Drama
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American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.
American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest
dramatist in the history of English literature.
Avon, Warwickshire, a prosperous town in the English Midlands. Based on this record and on the fact that children in Shakespeare’s time were usually baptized two orthree days after birth, April 23 has traditionally been accepted as his date of birth. The third of eight children, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent glovemaker and wool merchant, and Mary Arden, thedaughter of a well-to-do landowner in the nearby village of Wilmcote. The young Shakespeare...
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San Francisco - geography.
recognized symbol of the city, opened in 1937. It connects San Francisco to Marin County to the north, one of the wealthiest suburban areas in the nation. With the construction of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges and other links from the city to its suburbs, the San Francisco Bay area has become one large metropolitanregion. San Francisco itself is only 122 sq km (47 sq mi) of land area, but the city’s Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (defined by the Census Bureau as SanFrancisco, San Mateo,...
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Kansas City (Missouri) - geography.
Major institutions of higher education in Kansas City are a branch (established in 1929) of the University of Missouri, Avila College (1916), Rockhurst College (1910),DeVry Institute of Technology (Missouri) (1931), and the Kansas City Art Institute (1885). Schools in neighboring suburbs include Park University (1875), in Parkville,and William Jewell College (1849), in Liberty. Baptist, Nazarene, and Methodist theological schools are also located in the area. Midwest Research Institute, one of t...
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Athens (Greece) - geography.
At the heart of the modern city is Syntagma (Constitution) Square, located east of the Acropolis. The square is bordered by the national Parliament Building, originally aroyal palace completed in 1842 for King Otto I. Nearby is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which features a daily changing of the guard. Several of the city’s principalhotels as well the offices of major banks and airline companies also face the square. Behind the Parliament Building is the National Gardens, a public park that i...
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Bertolt Brecht (Sprache & Litteratur).
Mutter Courage schildert an Hand der Geschichte des Dreißigjährigen Krieges die vernichtenden Konsequenzen der politischen Machtstrukturen und Herrschaftsverhältnisse für das Leben der „kleinen Leute”. Mit Hitler setzte sich Brecht u. a. in Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches (1935/1938) und in Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Uí (1941) auseinander. In Letzterem werden clowneske Slapstick-Elemente tragend, die an Chaplins Der große Diktator von 1940 gemahnen und Hitler „der Lächerlichk...
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Chronik der Oper.
Hector Berlioz(1803-1869) Les Troyens(Die Trojaner) Komponist, nach Vergil (1. Teil:)La Prise de Troie(Die Eroberung von Troja) Karlsruhe,6. Dezember 1890(in deutscher Sprache) (2. Teil:)Les Troyens à Carthage(Die Trojaner in Karthago) Paris, Théâtre-Lyrique,4. November 1863 Michail IwanowitschGlinka(1804-1857) Ruslan i Ljudmila(Ruslan und Ludmilla) V. F. Schirkow, N. V.Kukolnik, M. A.Gedeonow, N. A.Markewitsch undKomponist(nach Puschkin) Sankt Petersburg,Kaiserliches Theater,9. Dezember 1...
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Comedy
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Laurel and Hardy
Stan Laurel, in overalls, and Oliver Hardy, left, formed one of the most popular comedy teams in motion-picture history.
The elements and techniques of comedy are diverse and differ from culture to culture. More than tragedy or serious drama, comic entertainment is controlled by socialconventions that define the boundaries of acceptable humor and topics that are taboo or off-limits for humor. What is considered funny in one place and time may beforbidden culturally or viewed as infantile or in poor taste in another. Virtually every component of human behavior is subject to comic treatment. This includes bodilyfunc...
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Pittsburgh - geography.
College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...
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Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer, conductor, and essayist, one of the most influential cultural figures of the 19th century.
May 1864 he was summoned to Munich by the 18-year-old King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who settled Wagner's debts, paid him a generous allowance, and provided himwith housing. Wagner was soon joined in his new home by Cosima von Bülow, Liszt’s daughter and the wife of German conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow. Wagnerand Cosima began a relationship that produced three children before the dissolution of the Bülows' marriage in 1870. Mounting hostility toward Wagner by members ofLudwig’s court resulted...
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
American playwright Arthur Miller began writing plays while a student at the University of Michigan.
devoted his life to the pursuit of “success.” His misguided philosophy has ruined the lives of his wife and two sons. When Loman is too old to travel, he loses his job. In aseries of scenes, brilliantly dramatized by the playwright, Loman relives his experiences. Eventually his mind begins to fail, and he commits suicide. Although Miller generally wrote in a realistic style ( see Realism), much of Death of a Salesman is conveyed expressionistically ( see Expressionism) through Willy Loman’s mi...