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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"proscenium"”.
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Proscenium: Building the Fourth Wall
The key relationship in a theater is between the audience and the production staff. I explored this relationship through a performing arts complex located on Mt. Vernon Square in Washington DC. The two questions that drove the thesis were: How are the spaces occupied by the audience different from …
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Dogwood Dell: a repertory theatre or a theatre of proscenia
… statements was explored and investigated. The proscenium plane is an essential structural element of the theatre: it is the heart of the theatre artistically, philosophically and physically in all of its' manifestations The building is conceived from this element, it is also made of this …
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Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
… remote interactive performance, and the proscenium theatre. Through close readings of work by Indigenous artists Dana Claxton and Michael Greyeyes, I consider ways in which these artworks enact decolonial aesthetics of embodiment and land. Through practice-led research creating short …
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An ideal theater : the Takarazuka Revue Company in Los Angeles
… communities. The theater thus becomes a gestural proscenium to the city. The spatial experience which results constitutes the making of an architectural icon.
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Performing Space: A Center for Contemporary Dance
… between the closed typology of the traditional proscenium theater and unbounded public space. Transparent and flexible spaces interweave everyday movement, or the "ballet of the plaza," with the choreographed movement of the artists. The pedestrian passer-by becomes the audience, encouraging …
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Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
… each of the performances as a sort of ethereal proscenium arch or a silent witness of sacred events.
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
… designs that continue to traverse the Broadway proscenium, a permanent fixture on The Great White Way for the last century and beyond.</p>
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… and romanticized scene settings like a proscenium stage for wedding photographs. In order to satisfy the bourgeoisie lifestyle fantasy, architectural symbols out of the in situ context are extensively deployed to create a sense of elsewhere in a wedding park, leading to a misalignment of …
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Embracing Monumentality: a Montpelier Center for the Arts
Monumentality shares a connection with history in its relationship with time, but it is not limited by this association. The selection of noble materials, such as granite, can date a building through the august character of the stone and its referential qualities. However, in the making of a …
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4 Theatres…
… these two sixteen foot high doors double as a proscenium stage. The pair of doors, in cooperation with an overhead canopy, resembles a typical theatre stage opening. This stage could be used for less formal occasions. It has been worthwhile to remember that a studio theatre type depends on …
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The Troupes of Theatre
… of the level changes of the seating within a proscenium theater, the curvature of the upper levels of seating, the form of the fly space for stage rigging, the form of the house of the theatre, and the support spaces necessarily for a theatre to properly operate. They become visual design …
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The Struggle for Space : Youth Participation in 'Ngoma' groups in Globalizing Tanzania
… this, the study reveals that to hire the proscenium theatre, which was built by president Kikwete to fulfil his promise of creating thousands of jobs for the youth, is unaffordable. Accordingly, it is hardly used by the youth, but is used by those who can afford to pay the charges, most of …