Annapūrna
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Annapūrna, Nepal A mountain range in the Himalayas whose name comes from that of a Hindu goddess; her name comes from the Sanskrit
anna ‘food’ and
pūrna ‘plentiful’, a reference to the fertile valleys.
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Maria Ley Piscator, Theater arts teacher
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/26/1999; 277 words
; Maria Ley Piscator, a theater arts teacher and director who co- founded a drama workshop...Belafonte, died Oct. 14. She was 101. She met theatrical director Erwin Piscator, who became her third husband, in 1936 while studying literature...
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Theatre: History: the first casualty of war
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/12/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...written by the German director Erwin Piscator, the great progenitor of epic...Studio Theatre, New York, where Piscator was living as an exile from Nazi...David MacDonald, a student of Piscator, invaded the Bristol Old Vic in...
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WAR AND PEACE
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 7/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...conveying a sense of Tolstoy's grandeur was Erwin Piscator's compact stage adaptation, played...the deployment of toy battalions on Piscator's tabletop-theater Battle of Borodino. And Piscator, capturing Tolstoy's big ideas, smoothed...
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From Stage to Screen: The Impact of the German Theater on Max Ophüls
Magazine article from: The Arizona Quarterly; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...directors who experimented with all kinds of new forms. Piscator and Brecht invented the epic theater, while Pirandello...Volksbuhne in Berlin and it was he who engaged and backed Erwin Piscator. Ophuls, who had been interested in politics since...
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THE ICONOGRAPHIC LOTTE LENYA
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/23/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...no such thing as intrinsically good tone in singing -- there is only suitable tone." Maria Piscator, the wife of the stage director Erwin Piscator, observed that Lenya "always sang sad songs with an incredible joyfulness and joyful songs...
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Fernando de Ita / Dos 'templos' vitales de la escena alemana.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 8/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...los nuevos diseos escenogrficos y luminotcnicos, fue Erwin Piscator; el terico de "la nueva objetividad", el impulsor...capaz de tratar temas polticos a una escala global. Piscator dirigi el Volksbuhne de 1923 a 1928, de ah tom Bertold...
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DOLLY HAAS, 84; ACTRESS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/17/1994; 700+ words
; ...When Miss Haas made her New York stage debut in 1941 in Erwin Piscator's production of the Chinese fantasy ``The Circle...stage. After ``The Circle of Chalk,'' she was in Piscator's version of ``War and Peace'' and in 1946 replaced...
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The case for live movies: the training of new-media projection designers will mean new aesthetics, new audiences.(APPROACHES TO THEATRE TRAINING: ALL EYES ON DESIGN)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...for future new media; and, perhaps most important, Erwin Piscator (while training Brecht) more or less inventing Epic projection theatre in Berlin. In the U.S., Piscator's methods were adopted fruitfully by the Federal Theatre...
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golden oldie.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...New School, run by the influential theatre director Erwin Piscator. Two years after Marlon Brando and Elaine Stritch had graduated, she stood in front of Piscator. 'He took one look at me and, apparently, I had...
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"Filmexil" Bd. 20
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...andere als Schauspieler oder Regisseure wie Gustav von Wangenheim, der den Film "Kampfer" inszenierte, oder Erwin Piscator (auch er nur vorbergehend in der Sowjetunion), der Anna Seghers' "Aufstand der Fischer" verfilmte. Viele der...
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Erwin Piscator
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Erwin Piscator , 1893-1966, German theatrical director...tr. The Good Soldier Schweik ). Piscator went to the United States in 1939 and...Bibliography: See C. D. Innes, Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre (1974).
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Piscator, Erwin Friedrich Max
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Piscator, Erwin Friedrich Max (1893–1966...novel by Hašek. This was Piscator's most successful production, and...After some desultory freelance work, Piscator left Germany in 1933, and reached New...
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directing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Vsevolod Meyerhold , Alexander Tairov, and Erwin Piscator . A disciple of Reinhardt, Piscator worked with the playwright Bertolt Brecht...intellectual content of Brecht's plays, Piscator utilized stylized settings and mechanical devices...
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Belafonte, Harry 1927–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...studying under famous German director Erwin At a Glance … Born Harold...Social Research, studying under Erwin Piscator. Singer, actor, producer, political...8th Ave., New York, NY 10019. Piscator, whose other students included...
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Belafonte, Harry
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Social Research, studying under famous German director Erwin Piscator, whose other students included Rod Steiger and Bea...the New School for Social Research, studying under Erwin Piscator. Singer, actor, producer, political activist...
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