Other Performing Arts

Nik Wallenda, 'King of the High Wire' ,doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Great Wallendas, he grew up performing, entertai...

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's ...

In a time before television, radio and cinema, entertainment was found at the many music halls and theatres up and down Great Britain. Acts were va...

African dance is discussed here in its global as well as local contexts as a powerful vehicle of aesthetic and cultural exchange and influence. To...

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnation...

Transformation & Revelation is a fully illustrated celebration of the diversity and richness of contemporary design for performance in the UK a...

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh - whose stage name was Clicko - performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brother...

The Dead Class (1975), by Tadeusz Kantor and the Cricot 2 company, is considered one of the most innovative and influential works of twentieth-cent...

Why did Barack Obama court Jon Stewart and trade jokes with Stephen Colbert during the campaign of 2008? Why did Sarah Palin forgo the opportunity ...

Produce your own circus! Make your own stilts, juggling sticks, and tightrope, then learn to use them; master the human pyramid; discover how to cr...

Each summer a small and glamorous part of the 1930s comes back to life, recreating magic from an era long past. Evoking a tradition common in the E...