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Motel of Memory

Jacqui Carroll

Jacqui Carroll

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Ozfrank

Ozfrank

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...Motel of Memory is an Ozfrank dance film, where the ensemble is joined by three former ballet principals, who merge their considerable ballet skills with the movement style of the actors. All the performers are allegories, acting...

The Buttcracker: Dragging Ballet into Queer Places

Mark Edward

Mark Edward

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Helen Newall

Helen Newall

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Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories : Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

Methuen Drama, 2021

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...Introduction Mark Edward is a contemporary dancer and drag performer. Helen Newall is a writer and photographer. But while Mark has the courage of his convictions, Helen has always suffered from imposter syndrome: working together was thus...

Storytelling through Dance: The Rise of the Dream Ballet

Bud Coleman

Bud Coleman

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Dance in Musical Theatre : A History of the Body in Movement

Methuen Drama, 2023

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...Melissa is having trouble with her boyfriend. After an odd musical encounter with a German baroness (with echoes of The Sound of Music), Melissa scans the countryside. She sees a woman walking dreamily toward her through mist (which...

Ballet Beyond Borders

Dana Mills

Dana Mills

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Dance and Activism : A Century of Radical Dance Across the World

Methuen Drama, 2021

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...Pearl Primus was a strong voice in the modern dance tradition, which in its radical beginnings was susceptible to interruptions and forms of activism deep inside the studio and theater. She was also a strong voice in the civil rights...

Notes from the Rehearsal Room: A Director’s Process

Nancy Meckler

Nancy Meckler

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Methuen Drama, 2023

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...Renowned theatre and film director Nancy Meckler delves into her hugely varied experiences in the rehearsal room and shares examples of some of her tried-and-tested “tools” that she utilises when bringing a play to life. Meckler encourages...

Dirty Crusty

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Clare Barron

~playauthor~Written by~ Clare Barron

Methuen Drama, 2020

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

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...Jeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really, really hard...

Wah! Wah! Girls

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Tanika Gupta

~playauthor~Written by~ Tanika Gupta

Oberon Books, 2012

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (13), Female (8), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

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...Inspired by the world of the Mujra dancers, who for generations have entertained the rich and powerful with a spellbinding mix of dance and song, Wah! Wah! Girls tells a passionate and playful story of love against the odds. Set against...

Ballet, Race, and the Great White Way

Ramón Flowers

Ramón Flowers

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Dance in Musical Theatre : A History of the Body in Movement

Methuen Drama, 2023

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...Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive...

Romeo and Juliet: Three Versions

Steven Mitchell Wright

Steven Mitchell Wright

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Creative Arts Television

Creative Arts Television

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...Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In drama with Bryarl Lee (Juliet) and Stephen Joyce (Romeo); as music with Alice Howland and John McCollum singing Berlioz' setting of key scenes; and as ballet with Nora Kaye and Hugh Laing dancing Anthony...

Communities in the Theatre and in the World: Three Ballets and a Masque

David Fuller

David Fuller

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New Places : Shakespeare and Civic Creativity

The Arden Shakespeare, 2018

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...If you would like more than this I can readily supply more: I give just five because the model gave five.(This is longer than the model’s: I am entirely willing to cut – or please feel free to cut for me. Could you let me know in due course...