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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “""""My Funny Valentine""""”.
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Doctoral thesis recital (trumpet)
… -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Edgar Sampson -- My funny valentine / Richard Rogers/Lorenzo Hart -- Hot house / Tadd Dameron -- Joshua / Victor Feldman -- Libertango / Paquito D'Rivera.
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The serious art of funny business: a critical study of comedy in dance
… comedy, philosophy, theatre, dance, history, and my own background as a comedic performer. Slowly a picture formed of a series of complex structures, worlds in which comedy in dance exists, each with its own logic, codes, and canons. Comedy within each dance work is a capsule of information …
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What'S So Funny?: Satire And African American Literature And Culture In The Twenty-First Century
… performers as diverse as Jourdan Anderson's "To My Old Master;" damali ayo's How to Rent a Negro; Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White Boy; Percival Everett's Erasure; Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Mat Johnson's Incognegro and Loving Day; Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Leslie Jones, …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
… the tired question of whether or not women are funny. Conclusions usually range from, "They're not" to a few token funny women whose exceptional wit proves the rule that, in fact, women are not funny. Or, if women are funny, they have a specific, feminine brand of humor that has an almost …
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Mindfulness and Transpersonal Psychology: A New Approach to Aging
… First and foremost, I would like to thank my mentor, Dr. Holly Hazlett-Stevens, for graciously allowing me to conduct this independent project under her auspices. I would also like to thank the Honors Program at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Program Director, Dr. Tamara Valentine, …
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Fantasy Library
… design as supremacy of authority, there is no funny and relax atmosphere, it's so hard to get alone with them. I wonder if there has a library can be a garden, I am trying to combine some Chinese classical garden element to my library design, create a comfortable environment for people who …
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Portmanteau
… two words incorporated to make a new meaning. In my painting I combine two animals to make a new life form. The weak, defenseless animals get armament and the fierce, dominant carnivores are made less threatening so that man will not find it necessary to destroy them. My animals are hybrids and …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… why it is important to find our shared funny bones. Through humour we gain sympathetic understandings with each other in a way that goes beyond words; indeed humour may have preceded language in our evolutionary development and has been seen in primates. Such longevity of humour suggests …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… politics of live feminist stand-up comedy. My position is informed by, and my writing integrates, the voices of contemporary and historical women-identified stand-up comics whom I have encountered through a variety of cultural texts, including: live and mediated performances, memoirs, …
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Representations of Black Female Bodies in Contemporary Caribbean Art: A Model for Responding to Art
… and (c) Mental Illness, Don’t Laugh!!! It Isn’t Funny!! Shouted the Angry Artist. I aim to encourage students and educators to consider their perceptions on issues such as race, gender, and mental health when viewing art by Black female artists. Due to the tension between observation in formal …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
A final thesis for my Master of Fine Arts degree should encompass every aspect of the past few years spent in the class room. Therefore, as a perfect capstone to my degree, I have decided to conceive, write, and perform a new musical with my classmate Rockford Sansom entitled The History of Musical …
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Paradise twin.
… first-person point of view is that of Cody, a funny but sensitive man in his mid-twenties, who grew up at The Paradise Twin; firstly, watching the double-features on Friday nights and now as a resident. He shares a single-wide trailer with his counterfeiting brother (Jackson) and a …
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Responsible filmmaking: ethics and spectatorship through the lens of Michael Haneke
My dissertation uses, as starting point, an interview with Michael Haneke in which the Austrian filmmaker criticises Downfall and Schindler's List for manipulating audiences and for generating entertainment from real-life and unspeakable horrors. He argues that filmmakers have a responsibility to …
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A Class Full of Class Clowns: A Case Study On The Education of Aspiring Comedians
… with their professional expertise. To inform my case studies, I observed two stand-up comedy classes over a sixteen week period. My results showed that instructors used a balance of different feedback and modeling techniques to create a safe space for their students to explore their comedic …
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Interrogating the nature, process and politics of female headed dance collaborations: the growth project (Scenkonst Sӧrmland, Sweden & Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa) 2012-2016
… and dancers and their directors and producers. My study focusses on the impact of choreographic processes in such collaborations when these are led by women. In particular, I will examine a collaboration herein referred to as the Growth Project that was undertaken between the Baxter Theatre …
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Challenges to enhancing employee engagement with pension savings in the UK
… The coherent thread running through the work is my development as a practitioner and researcher with the use of first-person action research. The findings will be fed back to employers and pension providers across the industry through professional networks and publication so that different …
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What’s the Deal With Junie?: Responses from Second and Third Graders to Junie B. Jones
… errors and unacceptable behaviors made the book funny. The children often suggested more acceptable behaviors. An abundance of evidence led to three conclusions. First, children notice and are critical of Junie B. Jones’s language errors while reading books from the Junie B. Jones series written …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… I will write and perform--in collaboration with my classmate Patrick John Moran--a new musical entitled A 16 Bar Cut: The History of American Musical Theatre as the capstone project for my Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. A 16 Bar Cut will be a two-man show that tells the entire history of …
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An Interpretation of Modern: Costume Designs for An Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
… being the immediate forgiveness of Silvia to Valentine and Julia to Proteus. My initial reaction to this ending was of disgust and wonderment of how a 21st century audience would react to this. The director, Alex Mackenzie, a fellow graduate MA student, approached the script with very strong …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
… how humor simply reflects a society's attitudes, my project illustrates how laughter produces those attitudes.</p> <p>At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen attempted to define Britishness within an empire that was still establishing itself. The values and …
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