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Drama, Theatre and Performance


Drama, Theatre and Performance



HISTORY OF THEATRICAL LIGHTING

Professor of Lighting Design at the University of California Irvine, Jamyi Lee Smith, explores the history of theatrical lighting, tracing the development of lighting technology from the Greek and Roman eras through the era of electricity. Smith discusses the use of natural light, candles, chandeliers, and gas lighting to explicate not only the advances that lighting technology has seen, but to showcase how lighting design has been instrumental to the actor's performances, the scripting of plays, and the development of theatre.

DVD / 2017 / 54 minutes

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INTRODUCTION TO COSTUME DESIGN

Assistant Professor of Costume Design at the University of California Irvine, Marcia Froehlich, explores the fundamentals of costume design by taking you behind the scenes into the drama department's costume workshop. Showcasing detailed costume boards and dress forms, Froehlich discusses the crucial decisions behind color palettes, fabric choices, and historical influence as well as the importance of both factual research and "emotional research" around the production and the script. With an emphasis on the creation of one's individual costume design methods, Froehlich explores a variety of artistic styles and tools in which to convey one's designs.

DVD / 2017 / 49 minutes

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INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTING DESIGN

Professor and Head of Lighting Program at the University of California Irvine, Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz, explores the fundamentals of lighting design, emphasizing the choices a successful lighting designer must navigate and the two roles that the designer must occupy as both craftsperson and artist. Alcaraz delves into different lighting technologies, showing how the computer is a tool that designers must learn to use fully to their advantage. Though technology is invaluable, Alcaraz discusses how technology is only the beginning of a lighting designer's work, diving into how multifaceted collaboration and a deep understanding of script is required.

DVD / 2017 / 62 minutes

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INTRODUCTION TO SET DESIGN

Head of Set Design at the University of California Irvine, Dipu Gupta, explores the fundamentals of set design, asking everything from "what is set design" to "are set designers artists". Gupta discusses methodologies for researching designs and creating set models. Moving beyond the individual work of a set designer, Gupta explores the network of relationships in theatre: between the performers and the space that set designers create, between the director and the designer, between the designer and the text, and between the legacy of past productions and new mountings of shows.

DVD / 2017 / 67 minutes

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INTRODUCTION TO SOUND DESIGN

Professor of Sound Design at the University of California Irvine, Vincent Olivieri, explores the fundamentals of sound design through the lens of his work on the recent play "Safe House" by Keith Josef Adkins. Olivieri focuses in on the art of sound design due to technology's rapid advancement, exploring script analysis, the creation of soundscapes, spatial awareness in sound design, and development of diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Detailing the process for creating successful cue lists and loudspeaker plots, Olivieri shows how each document is dynamic, often changing performance to performance, and how successful sound designers can learn to make their sound designs a living part of the play.

DVD / 2017 / 76 minutes

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HERITAGE OF CHINESE CULTURE AND DANCE, THE: CLASSICAL DANCE - DUNHUANG

Dunhuang Dance is a form of Chinese dance that draws sources from body movements depicted in artifacts found in Dunhuang Mogao Caves. Located in Gansu Province of China, along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the seven hundred and thirty five caves are famous for their statues and fresco paintings, spanning 1,000 year of Buddhist art. Thousand Hand Guan Yin, a representative of Dunhuang Dance featured in this program is a contemporary creation conceived by the renowned Chinese choreographer, ZHANG Jigang, and produced by the China Disabled Performing Art Troupe. In this dance, a group of hearing-impaired dancers effectively utilize their body language to communicate the magic of "thousand hands" and hints at the deep meaning of Buddhism, its luminescence and boundless love.

DVD / 2016 / 12 minutes

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HERITAGE OF CHINESE CULTURE AND DANCE, THE: ETHNIC DANCE - HAN

Han is the largest ethnic group in China, whose people inhabit the middle and eastern regions of the country. Hans folk dance tradition started on the streets in the 5th century as ritual events. Nowadays, this tradition named Yangko flourishes everywhere, on the streets, in classrooms and on stages. This program showcases a myriad of Yangko forms, both on and off stage, including Northeastern Yanko, Shandong Yanko and Shanbei Yanko, each has its distinctive features. The stage presentations of the Northeastern Yanko titled Happy Snow choreographed by WANG Xiaoyan and performed by MING Li of Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Shandong Yanko named Blossoms of Mountain Flowers choreographed by CHI Hong and MIAO Xiaolong and performed/produced by the Dance Department of Shanghai Normal University are stunning examples of this dance form.

DVD / 2016 / 8 minutes

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GROTOWSKI: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

World famous theatre practitioner Jerzy Grotowski has had an enormous and positive influence on contemporary theatre. This resource explores his life and work and shows how his ideas and approaches can be used by students and teachers to create powerful and successful performances. Through the use of archive performance footage, workshops, demonstrations, interviews and examples of Grotowski inspired pieces, this double DVD enables students to apply Grotowski's visionary insights to their own devised and scripted work. Includes top-band student performances and ready to use teaching materials.

2 DVDs / 2015 / 135 minutes

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CREATING COMEDY: TECHNIQUES AND EXERCISES

This Double DVD provides strategies and ideas for creating comedy for devised and scripted performances. Using interviews, workshops and performance footage from leading international comedy practitioners, this resource will guide students through the entire process, from the initial stages of researching, exploring and testing ideas through to rehearsal and final performance. Specific comedy generating strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing and surprises, crossed objectives, double acts, major/minor and creating comedy characters are all explained, with performed examples. Includes top-band student performances and ready-to-use teaching materials.

2 DVDs / 2014 / 120 minutes

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DOWNTOWN DANCE - NEW YORK, VOLUME 1

Explores the creative processes, influences, and experimental instincts of a variety of New York choreographers. Features interviews with Ivy Baldwin, Trajal Harrell, and Keely Garfield. Includes performance footage by the three choreographers.

DVD / 2014 / 32 minutes

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EXPRESSIVE ACTOR - EXPRESSIVE ACTION

The study of acting should begin with physical action - a specialized, structured, flexible and adaptable physical action that is enlisted in the direct service of the expression of thought and feeling. I call this integrated physical action an expressive action).-Michael Lugering. A group of actors work through a series of carefully structured exercises and improvisations that unlock the physical, raw materials that make human expression possible. Whether the actor is expressing love, loss, rage or joy, unlocking these universal will provide the building blocks for captivating and dynamic acting.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 70 minutes

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EXPRESSIVE ACTOR - IMPROVISATION

A group of actors demonstrate a variety of improvisatory techniques and exercises designed to expand the actors imagination and expressive power. Rooted in impulse, spontaneity, and creativity, the improvisations will lead you to new and unfamiliar methods of expression never thought possible and many of which you have never experienced in your personal life. These basic exercises can easily be modified and adapted for on-going growth and development. All the while, your acting repertoire increases and becomes more nuanced and sophisticated.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 70 minutes

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EXPRESSIVE ACTOR - THE LUGERING METHOD

Joan Melton, an internationally recognized actor trainer and author, interviews Master Teacher Michael Lugering in a theoretical discussion of recent discoveries in philosophy, somatic psychology, neuroscience and aesthetics that underpin the integrated voice, movement and acting method presented in this series.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 35 minutes

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EXPRESSIVE ACTOR - VOICE AND BODY EXERCISES

A group of actors demonstrate a series of voice and body exercises that unite a series of moving, breathing and sounding actions in an integrated full-bodied acting workout. These smart exercises do more than simply build essential skills in alignment, movement, respiration, resonance and range, but simultaneously prepare the actor for the expression of the bodyss richest and most powerful thoughts and feelings. The goal is the development of a flexible and dynamic voice and body that is hard-wired to express thought and feeling.

DVD / 2014 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 70 minutes

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OEDIPUSSY: MAKING PHYSICAL COMEDY WORK

This double DVD gives a unique insight into the hilarious inventiveness of internationally acclaimed physical comedy company, Spymonkey. Produced by Spymonkey and using original rehearsal footage and interviews, the resource follows the creative process from the first moments of inception through rehearsal to performance as the company turns Sophocles' most famous tragedy into a Bowie-esque space ballad. The DVD also includes a live recording of Oedipussy with commentary, as well as interviews with the artistic directors as they explore the influences on their work and the creative roles of director, writer and designer.

DISC 1 OEDIPUSSY recorded at Brighton Festival:
ACT 1 66min
ACT 2 45min (with optionalcommentary)
Promo trailer 4'27"
Audience voxpops 2'24"

DISC 2 OEDIPUSSY IN DEVELOPMENT
Starting Points 11'43"
Music & Choreography 9'24"
Creating in Collaboration 7'12"
Writing Tools 15'07"
Killing Your Darlings 14'47"
GLOSSARY 30'00"
REHEARSAL COMMENTARY by director and cast 2'28"


2 DVDs / 2014 / 100 minutes

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SO YOU WANT TO GO TO DRAMA SCHOOL?

Drama schools get thousands of applications each year from students wanting to become actors, so how can you make an application stand out? how can students be sure that the course is really the right one for them? What does the audition process involve and how can they prepare for it most effectively? Through interviews with experts at the Royal Central School of Speech an Drama, the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and the Institute of the Arts, Barcelona, this double DVD gives candidates the essential information they need to avoid the pitfalls to apply intelligently and to maximize their chances of success in auditions. Includes student accounts of the entire process and mock-auditions with students and drama school tutors.

2 DVDs / 2014 / 100 minutes

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ANNA MAY WONG: IN HER OWN WORDS

By Yunah Hong Anna May Wong knew she wanted to be a movie star from the time she was a young girlˇXand by 17 she became one. A third generation Chinese American, she went on to make dozens of films in Hollywood and Europe . She was one of the few actors to successfully transition from silent to sound cinema, co-starring with Marlene Dietrich, Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks along the way. She was glamorous, talented and cosmopolitanˇXyet she spent most of her career typecast either as a painted doll or a scheming dragon lady. For years, older generations of Chinese Americans frowned upon the types of roles she played, today a younger generation of Asian Americans sees her as a pioneering artist, who succeeded in a hostile environment that hasn't altogether changed. Yunah Hong's engrossing documentary is an entertaining and imaginative survey of Wong's career, exploring the impact Wong had on images of Asian American women in Hollywood, both then and now. Excerpts from Wong's films, archival photographs and interviews enhance this richly detailed picture of a woman and her times. =

DVD (Color) / 2011 / 56 minutes

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GRAEME MURPHY'S ROMEO AND JULIET

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the greatest love story ever told - but it hasn't been told by one of Australia's greatest storytellers...until now.

Graeme Murphy (Swan Lake, Nutcracker) adds another ballet classic to his list of audacious reinventions with this much-anticipated creation for The Australian Ballet. Traversing time and place, Murphy's ballet follows 'a feisty girl and a feisty boy who are willing to take a stand for their love.' Young passion smoulders at its core, but Murphy also tackles the consequences of greed, war, and what happens to humanity when love dies. Of course, a grand story demands grand surrounds, and who better to create the costumes than Australian fashion luminary Akira Isogawa.

Romeo & Juliet is a masterpiece from first blush to final devastation.


DVD / 2011 / 140 minutes

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HANYA HOLM: A RETROSPECTIVE

This documentary about modern dance great Hanya Holm was written, directed, and produced by dancer and dance educator Kathryn Sullivan.

DVD / 2011 / 26 minutes

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STANISLAVSKY FROM THE OUTSIDE IN REACT & ACT: A TRADITION OF ACTING

Tells the amazing story of the progression of Stanislavsky acting training in the United States and how some of the major Stanislavsky-influenced acting techniques relate to each other and to Stanislavsky from the Outside In.

Teaches: Stanislavsky studying actors; Moscow Art Theater & the Russian Revolution; Stella Adler; Group Theater & the American Great Depression; Lee Strasberg; Sanford Meisner.


DVD / 2011 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 14 minutes

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ANTONIN ARTAUD: PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO A THEATRE OF CRUELTY

This two-disc DVD set showcases practical approaches to working with Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. It provides examples of students' work that scored 100% in their A level practical examinations. These are combined with a wealth of performance footage from professional companies, interviews and practical exercises from leading Artaud practitioners, as well as an overview from Stephen Barber, Artaud's biographer and author of three books on Artaud. A unique resource that will be invaluable for all drama teaching

2 DVDs / 2010 / 120 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING PINA: THE LEGACY OF PINA BAUSCH

This documentary about modern dance great Pina Bausch was written, directed, and produced by dancer and dance educator Kathryn Sullivan.

DVD / 2010 / 40 minutes

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AFGHAN STAR

By Havana Marking

In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing. After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to the country. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American Idol-style series Afghan Star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to everyone across the country despite gender, ethnicity or age. Two thousand people audition, including three extremely brave women. And when viewers vote for their favorites via cell phone, it is, for many, their first encounter with the democratic process.


DVD (Region 1, Color, English, Dari and Pashto with English subtitles) / 2009 / 88 minutes

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DOWNTOWN DANCE - NEW YORK, VOLUME 2

In this DVD, contemporary New York choreographers Larry Keigwin, RoseAnne Spradlin, and David Parker discuss their works, the creative process, and their experimental instincts. This DVD also features dance critic and writer Elizabeth Zimmer, who provides commentary on the current New York dance scene.

DVD / 2007 / 32 minutes

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FADOS

By Carlos Saura

Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal's most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). Tracing its African and Brazilian origins up to the new wave of modern faudistas, he ingeniously deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song, ranging from a campfire ringed by sinuous dancers to a balletic catfight between two jealous women to a thrilling desgarrada (musical duel) in a fado cafe. The result is a ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers.


DVD (Region 1, Color, Portuguese with English subtitles) / 2007 / 92 minutes

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FLEDERMAUS (SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE)

Created by the waltz king Johann Strauss, Fledermaus is the dizzyingly silly story of Eisenstein who would rather party than go to gaol; his wife Rosalinde who is keen to teach him a lesson; and their pert maid Adele, whose eye for the main chance is unwavering.Then there are the high society types who move with ease between ballroom and prison cell.

DVD (Region 1, Color) / 2007 / 149 minutes

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MANON LESCAUT (GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA)

Manon Lescaut, Puccini's first major success, is a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18th-century novel by Abbe Prevost, depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful, fun-loving Manon. Puccini clothes the story in warmly passionate music that makes a direct appeal to the listener's emotions. Featuring Patrick Denniston, Adina Nites Cu, Roberto De Candia and more.

DVD (Region 1, Color) / 2007 / 126 minutes

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CREATING PHYSICAL THEATRE

An inspiring guide to some of the ideas, strategies and methods that can be used in both professional and educational contexts to add physical dimensions to performance.

Disc 1 includes interviews, rehearsal footage, demonstrations and performances from some of the world's best and most physical practitioners. It provides examples of games, strategies and methods used to generate physical action and looks at the relationship between text and movement. It also explores the choreographing and scoring of physical action, including proxemics and sequencing.

Disc 2 contains numerous workshop examples showing ideas and techniques that can be used to encourage students to add physicality to their performance. It also contains examples of student work.


2 DVDs / 2006 / 90 minutes

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DEVISING WORK

An invaluable and inspirational two-disc guide to the process of creating an original piece of drama. Ways of getting started are evaluated and professional practitioners introduce the strategies they use to generate ideas, movement and text.

Disc 1 Filmed with companies from three continents, this disc contains a feature film's worth of edited interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal footage and performance outcome clips from some of the world's most creative devisers - Goat Island (US), Forced Entertainment (UK), Ushio Amagatsu/Sankai Juku (Japan). The practitioners explain the ideas that influence and inform their work, how they start a piece - including research strategies and sourcing "raw ingredients"; games and other ways of generating movement and text and how they refine and structure their material.

Disc 2 provides extensive teaching resources including how to manage the conceptual process. It contains almost limitless ideas, strategies and materials to help devisors, including: video examples of student work informed by some of the practitioners on disc 1, specially commissioned copyright free "music to devise by", materials from Goat Island/Forced Entertainment and an introduction to the Great Devisers Great Devising Project - an online collaboration in which students are invited to upload performative and other responses to materials created by leading international practitioners.


2 DVDs / 2006 / 100 minutes

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ENSEMBLE BUILDING

Filmed over a two day workshop, this double DVD set shows a wealth of examples of ideas, games and methods which can be used to engage students, helping them overcome inhibitions, build trust and improve communication. Included are interviews and examples of work from some of the world's leading theatre practitioners. The second disc contains additional teachers' resources including a trouble shooting guide and suggested student activities.

2 DVDs / 2006 / 100 minutes

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