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Ainu Dance Traditions
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Pillai, N. N. (1918–95) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
... ( 1972 ), Supreme Court ( 1979 ), and To Be or Not to Be ( 1979 ). Originally staged by Pillai 's professional troupe, they were widely revived by amateurs. He performed excellently in varied roles: a zamindar in Pretalokam , the heroine's father in Kapalika , a prehistoric man in Sridevi ....
Tanguay, Eva (1878–1947) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)
...in Broadway plays before turning to two‐a‐day in the early 1900s. She was a hoydenish, frizzy‐haired blonde, celebrated for her animated delivery and her outlandish, often wildly feathered costumes. Although Percy Hammond once compared her brassy singing to “the wail of the prehistoric diplodocus,” her public clamored for more. Tanguay's popularity was such that E. F. Albee and B. F. Keith were rarely able to restrain her from singing risqué songs that other stars could not get away with. Her numbers had such titles as “It's Been Done Before but Never...
Bhutaradhane Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
...found in coastal Karnataka. Field studies in the area of Tulu Nadu (Dakshin Kannad district and parts of northern Kerala) reveal the cults of hundreds of Bhutas, each with its own distinct lore and form of worship. Some scholars trace the origins of Bhutaradhane to prehistoric times, but available evidence indicates that it became prominent in the socio-cultural context of medieval Tulu Nadu. In that feudal system, the purpose of the ritual was manifold: it was a religious ceremony, a medium of communication, a folk judiciary, a social therapy, as...
On the Town Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
...ballets and the music Bernstein wrote for them. Producer Arthur Freed bought the screen rights to On the Town but admitted he didn't like the songs so he hired Roger Edens to compose new ones, and Comden and Green wrote new lyrics, with the best addition being “Prehistoric Man.” Kelly was joined by Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin to play the three sailors and Vera-Ellen , Ann Miller , and Betty Garrett were their love interests. In addition to the extended dance sequences, the movie was also unique in the way it used on-location filming...
Masks Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre
...disguises, and enhances the face. Born of mankind's myth-creating faculty that transposes experiences from the subconscious into images, the mask has ever been the unfailing companion of the face as its mysterious double—the alter ego. It seems probable that deep in the prehistoric past each primitive society developed its own masks to minimize the feeling of helplessness and exposure to the forces of nature. Their myth-making imagination suggested that the good forces that help in sustaining life are gods, and the evil forces that destroy life are demons...
Korea Reference library
Jae-Oh Choi
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...a split that still continued into the twenty-first century. Broadly speaking there have been four major cultural periods in Korean history, each providing a different cultural setting for the development of theatre. The first dominant culture, spanning the epochs from the prehistoric period to the time of the Three Kingdoms (Kogury, Paekche, and Silla, 57 bc – ad 667 ), was dominated by shamanistic religious impulses connected to agricultural life. Rituals constituted the main cultural events of this early society, consisting of the performance of ...
religion and theatre Reference library
Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, and Eli Rozik
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...particular medium, and not necessarily addressed to the sacred. From the beginning of the twentieth century attempts have been made to lend scientific support to this romantic intuition, particularly by the Cambridge School of Anthropology. Jane Harrison suggested that in prehistoric societies ritual and theatre reflected their shared nature in the mimesis (re-doing and pre-doing) of crucial moments in tribal life, such as a successful hunt or a war, even though not all kinds of mimesis are equivalent to theatrical enactment of characters ....
origins of theatre Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...aura which it does not always possess. The theoretical stalemate probably stems from the methodologies employed in researching the elusive question of origins. While theatre historiography is limited by available documentation, theatrical phenomena probably hark back to prehistoric times which by and large have left scanty and deficient traces. Analogously, cultural anthropology is limited by its tendency to broad categories which, based on extreme abstraction of singularities, allow almost uninhibited application and hardly fit any given culture. In...
origins of theatre Reference library
Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, Eli Rozik, and Eli Rozik
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...which it does not always possess otherwise. The theoretical stalemate probably stems from the methodologies employed in researching the elusive question of origins. While theatre historiography is limited by available documentation, theatrical phenomena probably hark back to prehistoric times which by and large have left scanty and deficient traces. Whereas the history of major theatrical genres can be determined on quite reliable grounds, the history of the medium is a black hole providing no historical data and inviting a great deal of speculation....
Roerich, Nicholas (27 Sept. 1874) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...Roerich, Nicholas ( b St Petersburg , 27 Sept. 1874 ; d Kulu, India , 13 Sept. 1947 ) Russian scholar , mystic , painter , and designer . He studied prehistoric culture around the world and his main association with ballet was his designs for Fokine's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor ( 1909 ) and Nijinsky 's Rite of Spring ( 1913 ), both for Diaghilev's Ballets...
Ainu Dance Traditions Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...Dance Traditions . As the prehistoric inhabitants of the Japanese islands, the Ainu lived as hunters and fisherfolk; they belonged to the widespread Caucasoid peoples of northern Asia. When the prehistoric Mongoloid peoples from the southern Asian mainland settled the islands, the Ainu were forced to retreat from south to north; for centuries they gave the Japanese opposition, and campaigns against them are often mentioned in early historic documents of the Japanese empire. The Ainu now live on the Japanese island of Hokkaido and in Sakhalin and the Kuril...
Rite of Spring, The Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...Fenley created a solo to Stravinsky's score in 1988 , as did De Frutos in his first version, The Palace does not Forgive , 1994 : Michael Clark spliced it with rock music (including the Sex Pistols) for his work Mmm ( 1992 ). The score also accompanies the story of prehistoric evolution in Disney 's Fantasia . The four-handed piano version of the music has been used by Taylor ( 1980 ), Alston ( 1981 ), and Petronio ( 1992 ). The original ballet with Nijnsky 's choreography and Roerich's designs was reconstructed by Hodson and Archer for the...
Roerich, Nikolai (27 September 1874) Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...to Bronislava Nijinska , “Roerich's art inspires me as much as does Stravinsky's powerful music. … Roerich has talked to me at length about his paintings, … [which] he describes as the awakening of the spirit of primeval man. In Sacre I want to emulate this spirit of the prehistoric Slavs.” Like Léon Bakst and, to a lesser extent, Alexandre Benois , Roerich provided the element of Russian “barbarity” that so captivated the early audiences of the Ballets Russes. Even so, Roerich's reputation as a leading stage designer was short-lived because he was too...
Oceanic Dance Traditions Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...have emerged as a result of the complex migrations that brought seafaring peoples into the open ocean, the subsequent isolation of the island peoples from their ancestral homelands, and their interaction with neighboring groups and colonial powers. An understanding of these prehistoric, historic, and present-day links is crucial for understanding dance as it exists today in its myriad forms in the Pacific islands. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century geographers divided Oceania into three large areas, which are also useful culturally: Melanesia (“black...
Sacre Du Printemps, Le Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...folk costumes. The music was composed between the summer of 1911 and March 1913 , and the choreography between November 1912 and May 1913 , when the ballet was at last produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Le Sacre du Printemps concerns the rituals performed by a prehistoric Slavic tribe at the coming of spring. Part 1 includes a lesson in augury given by an old woman to the tribe's youths; a mock abduction, a khorovod , and a scene called “Games of the Rival Clans,” all performed by the young men and women of the tribe; a procession of the...
Cambodia Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...dance of the modern period, which developed under the patronage of the court. Folk Dance Although no evidence for dance during earliest times exists, the tribal and folk dances performed today in the remote regions of the country most probably preserve some elements from prehistoric times. Modern concert versions of the same dances have been choreographed for folkloric ensembles, such as that established by the University of Fine Arts in the capital, Phnom Penh, in the 1950s. Among these dances are “Leng Trott” (Dance of the Stag)—probably originally a...
Danse Du Ventre Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...because they do not cover themselves or wear the veil, and they dance before men in public. Such performers are typified by the ghawāzī of Egypt. History The origins of this dance genre are unknown, although authors with Orientalist fervor have speculated on ancient, even prehistoric, origins. The speculation reflects, in part, the abundance of pictorial evidence for solo dancing that exists from Pharaonic Egypt, pre-Islamic Iran, and ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient dance movements cannot, however, be reconstructed from still pictures. The Orientalist accounts...
Labyrinth Dances Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...ancient tradition ascribes it to Crete between the second and third milennia bce . The typical labyrinth design (the so-called universal maze)—either circular or rectangular, with only one path doubling and redoubling its way into a center and back to the entry—is found in prehistoric European stone carvings, but its original significance and its possible status as rudimentary choreographic notation remain unknown despite abundant speculation. The earliest textual reference to a possible labyrinth dance is in The Iliad (eighth century bce ); it describes...
