Everything is Choreography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theater ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Broadway Musicals ◽  
Bob Fosse ◽  
Funding Environment

Everything Is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full-scale analysis of the work of Tommy Tune, and his place in a lineage of Broadway’s great director-choreographers. The decade of the 1980s was considered a low point for the American musical. Tune’s predecessors in the art of complete musical staging like Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and Michael Bennett were either dead or withdrawn from the Broadway arena. Yet it was the period of Tune’s greatest success. The book examines how he adapted to an increasingly corporatized, high-stakes producing and funding environment. It considers how Tune kept the American musical a thriving, creative enterprise at a time when Broadway was dominated by British imports. It investigates Tune’s work since the mid-1990s, when he shifted his attentions to touring and regional productions, far from the glare of Broadway. Unlike his fellow director-choreographers, Tune also maintained a successful performing career, and the book details the deft balancing act that kept him working as a popular singer-dancer-actor while he was directing a series of striking and influential Broadway musicals.

A new perspective on hanzi: Based upon 
the multi-dialectical analysis of the Four 
Ways of Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Guk-jo Jeon
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Dialectical Analysis

This work is, most of all, designed to wrestle with taken-for-granted explanations as to how hanzi is composed and in what ways the composition the Four Ways of Writing (四書) can be analysed. Beginning with posing a self-reflective question on the academic identities of us, the hanzi civilisation researchers, and looking for a possible answer to it within the context of an Eagletonian conceptualisation of human animality or creatureliness, the work then methodologises the multi-dialectical analysis by virtue of méta-linguistique, transduction, and abstraction concreté. The full-scale analysis of the Four Ways of Writing comes next, taking four steps: first, synthesising the existing definitions, explanations and interpretations of them; second, abstracting the synthesis up to the multi-dialectical analysis; third, introducing a topology of the Four Ways of Writing; and fourth, analysing characters related to and expanding from two radical characters of 門 and 刀 with the aid of a dynamics of trialectics between the form, sound and meaning. Resting upon all the analyses performed, the work suggests the following conclusion. Amongst hanzi’s main characteristics is morphographicality (表形性), still the most distinctive within the analytical framework of the Four Ways of Writing. It is the very form of hanzi, as a matter of fact, that also turns out to be multi-dialectical: first, that which constitutes writing as the character trialectically related with both the sound and meaning; second, that which characterises writing as écriture of the dialectical relationship between human beings and nature; and last, that which dialectically elucidates who we are and what we are capable of.

scholarly journals Lung cancer in young adults aged 35 years or younger: A full-scale analysis and review

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 3553-3559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bailong Liu ◽  
Xiaoyue Quan ◽  
Changgen Xu ◽  
Jincai Lv ◽  
Cheng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis

scholarly journals Dynamics and efficiency of photoswitching in biliverdin-binding phytochromes

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 2484-2496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Consiglieri ◽  
Alexander Gutt ◽  
Wolfgang Gärtner ◽  
Luiz Schubert ◽  
Cristiano Viappiani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Scale ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Millisecond Time Scale ◽  
Kinetic Processes

A full scale analysis of the kinetic processes in the μ-to-millisecond time scale for red-and far red-triggered processes in biliverdin-binding bacterial and fungal phytochromes.

Making Broadway Dance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Gennaro
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theater ◽  
Character Analysis ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
George Balanchine ◽  
Script Analysis ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Art Design ◽  
Bob Fosse ◽  
Katherine Dunham

Musical theater dance is an ever-changing and evolving dance form, egalitarian in its embrace of any and all dance genres. It is a living, transforming art developed by exceptional dance artists requiring dramaturgical understanding; character analysis; knowledge of history, art, design; and, most importantly, an extensive knowledge of dance, both intellectual and embodied. Its ghettoization within criticism and scholarship as a throw-away dance form, undeserving of analysis—derivative, cliché ridden, titillating and predictable, the ugly stepsister of both theater and dance—belies and ignores the historic role it has had in musicals as an expressive form equal to book, music, and lyric. The standard adage, “when you can’t speak anymore sing, when you can’t sing anymore dance,” expresses its importance in musical theater as the ultimate form of heightened emotional, visceral, and intellectual expression. Through in-depth analysis author Liza Gennaro examines Broadway choreography through the lens of dance studies, script analysis, movement research, and dramaturgical inquiry offering a close examination of a dance form that has heretofore received only the most superficial interrogation. This book reveals the choreographic systems of some of Broadway’s most influential dance-makers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Katherine Dunham, Bob Fosse, Donald McKayle, Savion Glover, Sergio Trujillo, Steven Hoggett, and Camille Brown. Making Broadway Dance is essential reading for theater and dance scholars, students, practitioners, and Broadway fans.

scholarly journals Rys historyczny Teatru Muzycznego Takarazuka – w poszukiwaniu nowego „teatru narodowego”

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Monika Lecińska-Ruchniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Special School ◽  
Important Place ◽  
National Theater ◽  
Further Development

The Takarazuka Revue (Takarazuka Kagekidan) occupies an important place among Japanese modern theatres and enjoys unwavering popularity both in Japan and abroad. Both the artistic and commercial character of the idea that brought the first Japanese all-female revue to life in 1914 determined its further development and process of conversion from a simple choir to a full scale musical theater. Kobayashi – the founder of the Takarazuka Revue, an opera aficionado and theater critic – was driven by the need to create a new, affordable and easily understandable national theater that would meet the needs of modern Japanese society. Currently, the Takarazuka Revue is one of the most active and successful modern Japanese theaters. Its harmonious combinationof trends in mass culture and Japanese and Western theatrical traditions is fascinating. The highly characteristic fusion of simplicity and splendour, kitsch and sophistication that can be seen in the revue’s works, creates a unique, albeit somewhat controversial style, complemented by musumeyaku (female emploi) i otokoyaku (male emploi) played by actresses taught in a special school affiliated to the Takarazuka Revue.

Full-scale analysis of deformation and stress distribution for constrained composite bearing elements under compressive yielding conditions

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 2450-2470 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Samyn ◽  
L. Van Schepdael ◽  
J.S. Leendertz ◽  
A. Gerber ◽  
W. Van Paepegem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Distribution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Composite Bearing
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