Routledge Performance Practitioners" is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to & the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- & twenty-first-century performance. This book is the first English language overview of Pina Bauschs work & methods combining: an historical & artistic context for Bauschs work; her own words on her work including a newly published interview; a detailed account of her groundbreaking work " Kontakthof" both as performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal & by ladies & gentlemen over 65; & practical exercises derived from Bauschs working method for both dance & theatre artists & students. As a first step towards critical understanding & as an initial exploration before going on to further primary research " Routledge Performance Practitioners" are unbeatable value for todays student. Royd Climenhaga currently teaches at Eugene Lang College/ The New School University in New York City. He writes on intersections bewteen dance & theater & develops & produces new physical performance works as Co-Artistic director of Human Company." ...

Deplorably readable Observer Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club
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In a small town on the Italian coast a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled mute & clutches a bundle to her chest
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In the village of Wreay near Carlisle stands the strangest & most magical church in Victorian Engl&. This vivid original book tells the story of its builder Sarah Losh strong-willed & passionate & unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family heiress to an industrial fortune Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In the church her masterpiece she let her imagination flower
- there are carvings of ammonites scarabs & poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. & everywhere there are pinecones her signature in stone. The church is a dramatic rendering of the power of myth & the great natural cycles of life & death & rebirth. Sarah's story is also that of her radical family
- friends of Wordsworth & Coleridge; of the love between sisters & the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers the coming of the railways the findings of geology & the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all though it is about the joy of making & the skill of local unsung craftsmen.

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This title provides ten wonderful adventures from the hugely popular TV series. It
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Catch a rare inside glimpse of one of the worlds most revered guitarists David Gilmour & his iconic Black Stratocaster. Written by Davids personal guitar technician & the bands chief backline tech since 1974
- the only man to know Pink Floyds equipment better than the band
- this expanded edition contains new information as well as many unpublished photographs recently come to light that further chart the Black Strats illustrious history. Amending & elaborating on the previous edition it also continues the story where the last one left off with all the latest live appearances information & photographs
- including David testing the Fender Black Strat replica models; performances with David Bowie Jeff Beck & others; & much more.


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The Pink Hearts fold-away bag by Emma Bridgewater is bag that folds up into a handy zip around case. A practical addition for any handbag. Emma was the eldest daughter born into a large family in Oxford. Her father started grew & eventually sold a publishing business which gave Emma an insight into entrepreneurial life. Emma graduated from University in London with a degree in English Literature & her first & only job was working for small fashion business Muir & Osborne. Here she became involved in every aspect of the business which gave her the taste for doing something herself. Emma married Matthew Rice the son of two designers in 1987 & since then he & Emma have worked collaboratively on the Emma Bridgewater designs. They currently live in Oxford with their four children. ...

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily from whom she had been separated in her childhood. After stealing a suitcase of letters clothes & photographs from her mums bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles returning love letters & photographs to the men who had known her mother. As she discovers more about Lilys past & tries to re-enact her life she comes to question the foundations of her own personality. ...

Meet the girlfriends! Polly Keri Frizz & Lily. Theyre the Gang of Four & theyre going to stick together for ever & ever! Their bond of friendship is severely tested though when they discover that they are all going off to different schools in the autumn. & poor Frizz is going to be left with their arch enemy Jessamy James a show-off who wears pink knickers which they all know isnt cool! ...

Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens Arthur Hads & Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother a wife a girlfriend) all of whom must now share the psychological & physical aftershocks of their service. A work of great dramatic power documentary integrity & emotional intensity Pink Mist uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers & their families as well as ancient texts such as the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin it is the first extended lyric narrative to emerge from the devastating conflict in Afghanistan. ...