Verder Mag Alles beschrijft de werkwijze die Yolande Bertsch voor ensemble-improviseren heeft ontwikkeld. Die ontwikkeling is in 1968 begonnen met haar verblijf bij Grotowski's Theater Laboratorium in Polen. Terug in Nederland richtte ze samen met anderen Het Werktheater op. Ze ging lesgeven aan diverse toneelopleidingen. Haar bijzondere aanpak en filosofie kregen daar de verrassende vorm die ze al ruim 20 jaar als speldocente hanteerde.

Sinds zijn succesvolle langspeelfilmdebuut Abel (1986) kenmerken de films van Alex van Warmerdam zich door herkenbare locaties, een precieze, aan Kuifje ontleende stijl en compacte dialogen.

Desondanks is zijn filmoeuvre lastig te peilen, omdat zijn werk steeds de scheidslijn

tussen ‘normaal’ en ‘abnormaal’ aftast, tussen tragedie en komedie schippert en op genreconventies

varieert (sprookje, western, sciencefiction, huisvredebreukthriller).

Deze studie biedt analyses van de tien f...

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of one of Italy's most reputed film authors. It meticulously researches Visconti's appropriation of European art in his set and costume design, from pictorial citations and the archaeology of the set to the use of portraits and pictorial references in costume design. Yet it also investigates Visconti's cinematography in combination with his mise-en-scène in terms of staging, framing...

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical...

On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"A Choreographer's Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process. I...

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years.

With storytelling and collaboration as core principles, industry insiders Adam Leipzig (former President of National Geographic Films), and Barry Weiss (former head of animation at Sony Pictures), with Michael Goldman (prominent journalist and industry expert), guide students through the skills and the craft of video and filmmaking.