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The Kirov Ballet's unsteady future Current tour reflects crisis in art and finances at home
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LONDON -- "The best ballet company in the world," proclaim the ads
for the five-week London Coliseum engagement of the Kirov Ballet from
St. Petersburg. Is it? No. The claim is ridiculous on the face of
it, especially nowadays. Twenty years ago, it was simple --
especially for an American -- to say that Balanchine's New York City
Ballet was the best. At the turn of the century it would have been
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. At the end of the 19th century it was
the Maryinsky, as the Kirov was then called, and in the mid-19th
century, it was the Paris Opera Ballet.
No such clear hierarchy ...
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Shadow plays: how lighting designers bring an opera to vivid life.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada
; ...sparked by the work of Swiss designer Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) and English designer...should create mood and atmosphere. Appia in particular felt Wagner's ideal...and Der Ring dens Nibelungen put Appia's theories into practice. The...
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Quadruple good news for virtual reality research into ancient theatres; One month brings three grants worth GBP308,000 and a medal.
M2 Presswire
; ...renowned Swiss theatre designer and visionary theorist Adolphe Appia This work will build on the recently completed EC sponsored THEATRON Project which has produced a 3D model of Appia's revolutionary Hellerau theatre with the aim of building...
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OBITUARY : Riette Sturge Moore
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...puff of Woodbine smoke were unmistakable. She was half French, her mother from the Appia family, one cousin the great innovator in theatre design Adolphe Appia. Her father was Thomas Sturge Moore the poet, her uncle the philosopher G.E. Moore...
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Madness in the methods? Companies in New York and Texas take on a plethora of techniques in workshop productions about actor training.(SPECIAL SECTION: APPROACHES TO THEATRE TRAINING)(Theatre MITU and Rude Mechanicals of Austin)
Magazine article from: American Theatre
; ...set out to examine the written texts of seven of history's seminal thinkers on the subject of acting: Aristotle, Adolphe Appia, Stanislavsky, Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski and Anne Bogart. WHY CHOOSE TO EXAMINE THE MECHANICS OF...
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Off Directing (Part I)
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...script. Gordon Craig wanted to reconceive the way Shakespeare and Ibsen were conveyed onstage, not their texts; Adolphe Appia was hunting a credible visual environment for Wagner. Meyerhold took up scripts by his Expressionist contemporaries...
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The Washington Square players: art for art's sake.
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies
; ...George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges de Porto-Riche, and Paul Claudel; the "new stagecraft" of Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig; innovative productions by directors like William Poel, Andre Antoine, Max Reinhardt, Alexander...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Walther R. Volbach, writer and theatre director, died Amherst, Massachusetts 5 August, aged 98. Works include Adolphe Appia: prophet of the modern theater (1968) and Memoirs of Max Reinhardt's Theaters (1972).
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LEAD TENOR AT HEAD OF CLASS IN BU `ROMEO ET JULIETTE'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...star- crossed lovers on a semi abstract white set by Eric Allgeier that suggested the early 20th-century sets of Adolphe Appia, the sculptures of Jean Arp, and the movies of Busby Berkeley. It is difficult to imagine how the first act could...
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The designer as thinker: six American designer-educators wrestle with the diverse roles stage designers must play in a changing world. (Approaches to Theatre Training).
Magazine article from: American Theatre
; ...in passing on an oral tradition--that Ming is part of. The history of American theatre design goes back to Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig, who made their innovations in Europe. Jones went there, brought what he saw back and used...
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Apuntes para la historia de la puesta en escena en México.(TT: Notes for the history of theater in Mexico.)(Artículo Breve)
Magazine article from: Proceso
; ...advenimiento de la puesta en escena, el gran acontecimiento del teatro del siglo XX, puso en evidencia--como lo sealaba Adolphe Appia--que al pensar sta "nos encontramos frente al problema dramtico en su totalidad". Pese a la escasez de descripciones...
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